Why would someone join the Anglican( Episcopalian Church)?

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The issue of consummation was relevant, though, because if Arthur and Katherine had not consummated their marriage it could be said it was not a true marriage, and therefore Henry was not Katherine’s brother in law, and therefore his marriage was not unlawful. That’s why a big deal was made over the consummation /non consummation
 
Luther said that, indeed.

Other folks said, and say, otherwise. What Henry asked for and how he asked it, were playing by the rules of the day. His causa was not as strong as it might have been, as Wolsey tried to tell him, but it was as strong as was common in the day, and Henry fully expected to get his decree. His sister got one, on far flimsier grounds, about the time Henry made his submission. But the system as it was designed reflected both theological and political aspects, and an Emperor trumps a king. Esp. this Emperor.
 
And it really didn’t matter. Likely true that it was not consummated,as both Katherine and her duenna had said all along. Which left,as Wolsey saw, the diriment, but undispensed impediment of the justice of the public honesty. A complicated detail. But no matter. Given the circumstances, no way was Henry getting a decree of nullity from Clement.
 
Why I don’t understand is why would someone not English be an Episcopalian, if not for laxity’s sake?
 
So they wouldn’t believe that the seat of Peter the Apostle would be the center of Christendom but rather the king of England would be? That just doesn’t make sense to me.
 
Episcopalian, in this sense, is someone who belongs to the member jurisdiction of the Anglican Communion, and is a member of the Episcopal Church in the US. Hard to be a member of the CoE, in such a case. But not impossible, I suppose.

How one refers to a member of the Sottish Episcopal Church, I dunno.
 
No, they assert, by Act of Parliament, that the monarch is the supreme governor of the Church of England. As to the Pope, think Orthodox.
 
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Because they find Anglican theology convincing? Because they find Anglican liturgy moving? Because they find God in an Anglican communion service? Or simply because that is the Church in which they were raised and where their family worship? But you know all this, don’t you?
 
But then why not be Catholic?
I can sorta understand those who are English because it was the law and is their religion (though being born in something does not excuse not searching).
 
Anglicanism purports to be the middle way between Rome and the Reformation. While its liturgy is commendable and I do really appreciate Traditional Anglicanism’s passion for the sacraments, the only thing that seems to unite Anglicans is that they are emphatically not Roman. While they are passionate about liturgy, they don’t take theology seriously enough (i.e., claiming to be Catholic, but laughing off Tradition as being an obstacle to Faith, prima Scriptura, etc.)
 
To suggest Anglicans don’t take theology seriously, considering the many highly distinguished Anglican theologians, is not sensible.
 
Those who accept and affirm such things as the RCC requires of them often do. Those who can’t, don’t. Simple. And to suggest that those who don’t don’t search, or learn, or read on the subject, is…somewhat simple, in itself.
 
Depends on which Anglicans you are thinking of. Motley be that crew.
 
And then there is the issue of the undispensed impediment of the justice of public honesty.
 
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I don’t understand. Most of Mexico is Roman Catholic. One Church can expand to other areas. But really the only churches that can claim to go back to Christ are the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Sure the Church of England was founded by Augustine of Canterbury but that doesn’t mean every time the Church expands it is then founded by that person. Christ said to proclaim to all the nation’s, as one body. Not hey go expand and then start your own church with its own beliefs.
 
No, in no sense was the Church in, or the Church of, founded by Augustine of Canterbury, fine lad that he was.
 
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