Comment on AMERICAN POPE LETS GO

• Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who are the angles? I didn’t vote for them.

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The Anglicans of 932?

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  • FrChazzz@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    [contemplates going on a tangent about the Branch Theory of Anglican identity, decides against it]

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I beg you to reconsider

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      • FrChazzz@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So, Anglican theologians like John Keble and John Henry Newman (who later converted to Roman Catholicism) built off of a notion advanced by the 16th Century Anglican Divines that viewed Anglican Christianity as a distinct branch that developed alongside Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Things like the Synod of Whitby are cited as evidence that the Roman church worked hard to bring this distinct form of the church inline with Roman polity and practices (in some views Celtic Christianity is viewed as being part of this wider “English” branch of the faith). This resulted in a long-standing tenuous relationship with English Christianity and the Catholicism of continental Europe (reflected in things like the Sarum rite, etc.). So when the Reformation happened, this gave the opportunity for English Christianity to pick up where they left off and live into that distinct mode of being.

        Given this, according to branch theory proponents, there would be Anglicans in the 900s. They were just put under the veil of Roman Christianity at the time.

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• modeler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah - there’s actual video evidence of it exploding! Unfortunately that means that it no longer exists, so that would explain why it’s absent from the Pope’s blessèd gun rack.

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