[Magdalen] Anglican Evangelicals.

[Charles Wohlers]

As David says, Evangelicals are much less common in the Episcopal Church 
than they are in the C of E, but the reasons go back farther than what he 
mentions and have very little to do with the Reformed Episcopal Church 
(still a tiny denomination).

Unlike England, few places in the U. S. were ever dominated by the Anglican 
Church - the Southern colonies being the main exception. Partly because of 
the Anglican association with the Loyalist cause during the Revolution, its 
successor (the Episcopal Church) didn't expand much immediately after the 
Revolution. The group which mainly benefitted from this was the Methodists, 
who increased tremendously in those years. So, I'd say that those who might 
have been Episcopal Evangelicals are today Methodists, which (unlike in 
England) is much, much bigger than the Episcopal Church.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Anglican Evangelicals.




Martin -

I was interested in your identifying yourself as an "Evangelical"
Anglican.

As a group, "Evangelicals" at least in the British sense, are a  trifle
exotic for USA Episcopalians, because this element, or at least the
extreme portion of that element left TEC in the nineteenth century
over what was their horror over "creeping catholicism"
from the new (then) Oxford Movement, and what was regarded as
over-cosiness of the Evangelicals and Reformed Christians from
the Anglocatholic side.

So, TEC doesn't have the extreme low church Evangelicals.  They
are simply to be found in the Reformed Episcopal Church.

Just to set the matter straight, I am curious to how you view the
situation in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney (Australia).



David Strang.