Why Anglican? – Phillip Jensen

Posted on October 4, 2008 
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Phillip JensenIt is a strange phenomenon when your friends and enemies agree about you. But Sydney Anglicans enjoy this peculiarity. Neither friends nor enemies think we believe in Anglicanism. …

Anglican Christians have never believed in the sociological Anglicanism. We have always been Confessional Anglicans. We are Anglicans because we profess the Anglican beliefs of the Book of Common Prayer and the 39 Articles of Religion. These include the great creeds of the ancient worldwide church (the Apostles, Nicene and Athanasian Creeds). …

Phillip Jensen, Dean of Sydney, writes in this weekend’s Cathedral newsletter.