A new debate is emerging in the Anglican Communion over the real roots of Anglicanism. An American academic has asserted that English Anglicans are losing the battle with modern historians as to the Catholic element in Anglican history.  I argue that it is thoroghly Protestant in origins ., and that the Via Media ( which the Presiding Bishop of TEC always makes appeals to , as a front for modern heterodoxy)was in fact hard line Elizabethan Protestantism, which uthlessly disinherited the English Catholics.

Christopher Howse writes today in the English Daily Telegraph about Anglicans who’ve lost their memory.

Like an unwatched pan of milk, readers of the Church Times have seethed up and boiled over in response to an analysis of the Church of England by the ever-controversial historian Jonathan Clark…