Riveting Revisionists, Ridiculous Revolt or Reform?
Recently, I was watching a group interview with members of GAFCON and ACNA speaking about the creation of a new, Independent Anglican Diocese info Australia (Diocese of the Southern Cross). A theme which kept recurring in the discussion they engaged in was the term and references to "Revisionists" and "revisionism". At face value, to anyone who holds Sacred scripture as the groundwork of our faith, that sounds like a terrifying concept- who would dare try to revise holy writ? And I think that, that is to an extent what the bishops of GAFCON and ACNA were going for- the shock factor of others attempting to revise what the scriptures teach. However, as Anglicans, it is an intriguingly odd notion to accuse anyone else of attempting to revise teachings; when the revision of teaching itself is the cause for the Anglican Communion's very existence. Had it not been for Henry VIII and Cranmer changing the foundational teaching of the church's independence and...