Aims Of Church Of England
AUCKLAND. Tin*. (Sp.) —“Thi; Church of England .stands today for tradition it! fundamentals, but on the other hand favours reform where needed." said the Rev. Canon R. E. Sutton, warden of St .John’s College, in his sermon at St Mary’s Cathedral last, night to mark the opening of the synod. 'll is the aim of Anglicanism to satisfy the spiritual needs yf all," continued Canon Sutton. "It. is an earnest of the reunited church of the future." The Anglican Church had a number of characteristics which appeared to be paradoxes and vet were not. It had continuity and independence, tradition and reform, authority and freedom, and unity and diversify. H preserved what was best in both (lie Roman Catholic and Nonconformist' forms. ft was catholic or universal in its fundamentals, blit national or local in its expressions of those. "Aiigbeans have a conception of authority and freedom paralleled by British democracy,'’ he said. •‘The Church of England encourages freedom and takes the risk that that freedom will be abused.
Opposed to this there were, on the one hand the doctrine of Papal infallibility. and on the other hand some who had swung so far to excessive individualism that it amounted to a view of the infallibility of the individual.
This produced spiritual and ecciesiistie'al anarchy.-
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Northern Advocate, 19 July 1949, Page 9
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