| | Dissuasive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | BBS in Anglicanism is mainly a party badge of the more extreme Rome-imitating Anglo-Catholics and serves a function somewhat like the Confederate Battle Flag: its adherents see it as a glorious symbol of the Great Cause, past, present, and perhaps future, while its detractors see it as the emblem of tyranny, oppression, and superstition. |
| | The overall effect of the ACC's recognizing transubstantiation, concomitance, and BBS will simply be further to marginalize the ACC and to isolate and estrange it from other Continuing Anglican Churches and from 21st century ecumenical dialog, as was doubtless the intention of the framers of the two canons. |
| | It is not surprising that many Anglican theologians have been attracted to this sort of re-statement, and one can hardly deny that a doctrine of the eucharistic Presence constructed along these lines could be acceptable to Anglicans and not readily susceptible to the kinds of objections made in the English Reformation. |
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