What Makes Anglicans Anglicans? Church to Produce Doctrinal Statement to Find "Clear and Shared Identity"
By Hilary White
YORK, July 10, 2007

(LifeSiteNews.com) - For the first time since its earliest days in the reign of Elizabeth I, the Church of England, officially the established church of Britain, has tentatively agreed to draft a written statement, a "covenant," of its doctrines. The decision comes from the July 8th General Synod meeting in York in northern England, and represents a considerable break from the Anglican Church's usual methods of conflict resolution.

Since the establishment of the Anglican Church in the 16th century, there has been a typically English unspoken agreement within it not to meticulously define doctrinal matters. The name, Worldwide Anglican Communion, is descriptive of a religious body that has prided itself on maintaining open ecclesiastical borders while avoiding forthright discussion over what is and is not correct Christian doctrine. the rest