It is true that you can go to Madagascar today and the Lutherans there are eagerly studying the Augsburg Confession. And you can go to the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in Australia, and they are steadfastly proclaiming their adherence to the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, and encouraging others in the Communion to the do the same. And there are not a few younger Catholic priests in North America and France who have taken up the Council of Trent with a new enthusiasm.
But this is all epiphenomenal. These post-Reformational echoes - and the many websites associated with them - are but the debris, the flotsam left behind by a tide that has long since been sliding back out into the ocean of God's providence. What the new tides will bring is another question, one that I will explore in due course.
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