Book is a vivid snapshot of church's diversity [Stained glass, sweet grass, hosannas and songs: a snapshot of Anglican issues and visions in Canada]

From: Anglican Journal | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

FINE PRINT

Stained Glass, Sweet Grass, Hosannas, and Songs

by Sally Edmonds Preiner

ABC Publishing

172 pages, $21.95

ANGLICANISM, if there is such a thing, has always been somewhat strange. Often it has been difficult for our Christian neighbours to figure us out and from time to time we have difficulty in understanding ourselves. We are not 'confessional' as are other reformed churches, but neither do we subscribe to any absolute ecclesiastical authority or particular system of philosophy.

A noted scholar and former bishop of London, J.W.C. Wand, once explained: "We Anglicans do not seem ...

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