[Magdalen] TECnical question

Brian Reid reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Mon May 4 20:58:21 UTC 2015


> I couldn't understand Sydney and this extreme Protestant outlook
> until someone pointed out online that Australia was originally
> evangelized almost entirely by Evangelical low church missionaries
> in the nineteenth century, and what seems to me to be rather wonky
> theology follows from that history.

Exactly. But those missionaries identified themselves as being from the 
Church of England, when in fact they were merely from England. So the 
hapless Australians learned Baptist ways but were told that they were 
learning Anglican ways.


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