[Magdalen] TEC talk

[Allan Carr]

I wonder if the name was chosen in a hurry for fear a breakaway group would trade mark it first.

Allan Carr


> On Oct 21, 2019, at 3:03 AM, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:
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> Actually it was the fourth entity, after the Church of England, the Church of Ireland and the Scottish Episcopal Church.
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> And the term "Anglican" had not been adopted for the purpose of labelling churches in communion with Canterbury: if it was used at all it was as an adjective for the Church of England, Ecclesia Anglicana.
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> The distinguishing feature of the the protestant churches in Scotland and the US was their episcopalian form of government, hence the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. No one balked at being described as "protestant" until after the Oxford Movement took hold.
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> I'd have thought that something like the "Episcopal Church in America" (or "in the Americas") would have been a better name, one that did not seem to imply global rights. (The Convocation of European churches clearly being extra-territorial.)
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> simon
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>> On 2019-10-21 09:58, Ferdinand von Prondzynski (Emeritus) wrote:
>> Lynn, you are absolutely right, and that is what happened when Sam
>> Seabury was consecrated in Aberdeen. The decision by the Scottish
>> Episcopal Church to do that created the third entity and with that the
>> Anglican Communion. The US Episcopal Church is called ‘Episcopal’
>> because it was the daughter of the Scottish Church, of that name.
>> Ferdinand
>> Sent from my iPad
>>>> On Oct 21, 2019, at 03:48, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I thought The Anglican Communion occurred when there became a third entity, across the ocean, that was no longer under complete control of the "Church of England".
>>> Lynn
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> Simon Kershaw
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