What is Anglicanism? – Archbishop Orombi

Posted on January 31, 2008 
Filed under Opinion, Theology

Archbishop OrombiThis 2007 essay by Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, Anglican Archbishop of Uganda is well worth reading:

“We would not be facing the crisis in the Anglican Communion if we had upheld the basic Reformation convictions about Holy Scripture: its primacy, clarity, sufficiency, and unity. Part of the genius of the Reformation was its insistence that the Word of God and the liturgy be in the language of the people — that the Bible could be read and understood by the simplest plowboy. The insistence from some Anglican circles (mostly in the Western world) on esoteric interpretations of Scripture borders on incipient Gnosticism that has no place in historic or global Anglicanism. …”

Read the full text at First Things.