n his play A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt described the Church of England thus: “The Church of England, that finest flower of our Island genius for compromise; that system, peculiar to these shores, the despair of foreign observers, which deflects the torrents of religious passion down the canals of moderation.”
This has been the story of the Church of England for a long time. Its lack of a central magisterial authority and its historical wavering between Catholicism and Protestantism resulted in a faith that accepted as legitimate a wide variety of creedal positions, a built-in system of relativism.
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