"I've never heard of a report of such import for the church being accepted with so little argument," said a stunned Anglican canon last week. The Convocations of Canterbury and York, traditional arbiters of all doctrinal matters in the Church of England, had just accepted, with little dispute, a report recommending extension of "limited intercommunion" with the Church of South India. The argument was not long in coming, and with it the threat of a schism in the Anglican Church.
The union of some 1,000,000 Methodists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and members of the...
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