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Then you've had a very atypical experience. Let's just say that YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED Anglicans you can hardly distinguish from Baptists, etc., but that it's not a common thing with Anglicans.Not in my experience it isn't.
I remember a conversation I had with an Anglican priest who was himself a conservative evangelical. The subject of conversation was one of his colleagues. "He isn't an Anglican priest," he said. So I said what is he then, and the reply came back, "He is a Baptist minister."Then you've had a very atypical experience. Let's just say that YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED Anglicans you can hardly distinguish from Baptists, etc., but that it's not a common thing with Anglicans.
I remember a conversation I had with an Anglican priest who was himself a conservative evangelical. The subject of conversation was one of his colleagues. "He isn't an Anglican priest," he said. So I said what is he then, and the reply came back, "He is a Baptist minister."
I think it depends on where you are in the country or world. It's true many Anglicans can be nearly Catholic, but there are plenty of Anglicans who are much closer to the Baptist end of Christianity. Particularly in the Southern US. But you find them everywhere. I mean I've been to Anglican Churches that while not Baptist, were definitely on the Protestant end of the spectrum and their service had little in common with a Catholic or Anglo-Catholic service.Then you've had a very atypical experience. Let's just say that YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED Anglicans you can hardly distinguish from Baptists, etc., but that it's not a common thing with Anglicans.
It's true many Anglicans can be nearly Catholic, but there are plenty of Anglicans who are much closer to the Baptist end of Christianity. Particularly in the Southern US. But you find them everywhere. I mean I've been to Anglican Churches that while not Baptist, were definitely on the Protestant end of the spectrum and their service had little in common with a Catholic or Anglo-Catholic service.
As the name indicates Episcopal means those who believe in bishops (Greek episkopos = bishop), and the apostolic succession of bishops. Episcopals are Anglicans, and the Anglican Church came out of the Roman Catholic Church. There was a time when Episcopals were very similar to other Protestants, but since the 19th century theological liberalism infected Anglicans and the Episcopals. But then, so did it infect many Baptist groups (and mainline Protestant denominations).I am trying to do research and figure out some of the major theological differences between episcopals and most other evangelical groups such as baptists.
It's "Episcopalians," not "Episcopals." And the church remains both theologically Catholic and Protestant, as it has been since the Roman Church broke with the Church of England.As the name indicates Episcopal means those who believe in bishops (Greek episkopos = bishop), and the apostolic succession of bishops. Episcopals are Anglicans, and the Anglican Church came out of the Roman Catholic Church. There was a time when Episcopals were very similar to other Protestants, but since the 19th century theological liberalism infected Anglicans and the Episcopals. But then, so did it infect many Baptist groups (and mainline Protestant denominations).
It's "Episcopalians," not "Episcopals." And the church remains both theologically Catholic and Protestant, as it has been since the Roman Church broke with the Church of England.
It's true, though, that theological liberalism has affected most denominations in recent generations, but that's why there are liberal Anglican church bodies and also traditionalist ones, just as with Methodists, Lutherans, Baptists, and so on.
Then you've had a very atypical experience. Let's just say that YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED Anglicans you can hardly distinguish from Baptists, etc., but that it's not a common thing with Anglicans.
That's what I'd think. If someone cannot tell them apart, they probably didn't get a good reading of what each of the parties believes.I've met a very, very wide range of Anglicans, and I've met a very, very wide range of Baptists, and I've never had any trouble telling them apart.
I've met a very, very wide range of Anglicans, and I've met a very, very wide range of Baptists, and I've never had any trouble telling them apart. Anglicans, whether "high" or "low," will baptise infants; Baptists won't.
While it's quite possible to run into the kind of preacher you describe in an Episcopal church, that's only one of a number of different Episcopal or Anglican churches. Then too, it's not guaranteed that every Baptist congregation or minister is going to provide a sure way to learn about the Bible and get saved...and definitely not more likely than you'd find happening all the time in many other denominations.
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