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As a low church Evangelican Anglican, I could never ever "swim the Tiber". Too many Doctrinal differences.... We have two Sacrements, they have seven, We do not believe in Transubstantiation - They do. We don't believe in the Veneration of Mary and the Saints do. We believe that one is Saved by Grace through Faith - They don't. We don't believe in a Pope - They do. The list goes on and on. The traditional Anglican Church has never believed these things. Have you ever read the Thirty Nine Articles?
Have you been an Anglican with an RC waiting to get out?

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Sionssar: I was referring to the Author, not you.

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"Too many Doctrinal differences.."

The origin of the Anglican church is not in any significant theological debate, but in the desire of a secular ruler to obtain a divorce, obtain Church lands and property, and to exercise direct ecclesiastical control. The prime minister still nominates Episcopal candidates. Parliament must vote on any act proposed by the General Synod. The king or queer is the head of the Church of England.

Cardinal John Henry Newman, perhaps the greatest Anglican theologian, helped start the Oxford Movement. Newman and a few of others started this movement to return the Anglican Church to its early roots.

Newman's attempts to link the modern Christian faith with the early Church affirmed many of the doctrines rejected in the Reformation. In the end, Newman was convinced that the first Christians professed the same beliefs practiced by the modern Catholic Church and that the Catholic Church taught with divine authority. Newman eventually concluded that the Church of England was in schism and that Rome was the only valid successor to the historical and ecclesiastical claims of the early Church.