In an essay on schisms past, Father Greg Jones detects a certain irony, and perhaps some intellectual incoherence on the Anglican right.
He concludes:
“We are now seeing a group of supposedly evangelical folks looking for two things that historically have caused evangelicals to leave Anglicanism.
First, the realignment folks today are clamoring for more clerical authority — and not just among presbyters, but among bishops, and not just among bishops, but among metropolitan archbishops.
Second, they are saying the ‘standard of faith’ ought to be the 1662 Prayer Book (and other similar formulae) — yet that very prayer book was the primary cause of schism under which evangelicals left Anglicanism.”