Anglicans and the Via Media

By Randy Sly6/5/2008
Catholic Online

Anglicans have traditionally been called the “Via Media” or “the middle road” between Catholicism and Protestantism. What does that even mean any longer?

WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) – “Why did the Anglican cross the road?” He never did, he stopped in the middle.

Anglicans have traditionally been called the “Via Media” or “the middle road” between Catholicism and Protestantism.

Depending on which way a certain Anglican group may lean, they could be described as Catholic Lite or Protestants with Prayer Books. Until the mid-20th Century, however, most of them stayed in the middle of the road together.

I remember some of my early lessons as a teenager in the Episcopal Church where we were talk that we were taking the best from both worlds and expressing a faith that stands between the Catholic Church and the Reformers, embracing both and borrowing from each.
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