Sentences with phrase «anglican via media»

And he had come to agree with John Henry Newman, the archetype for any Anglican converting to Rome, that the Anglican via media, its prizing of the middle path between extremes, is a mistake.

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The construction of an evangelical Marian theology can not but remind me of John Henry Newman's endeavor to create a via media theology for the Anglican Church, as famously detailed in his Apologia.

Eventually, Newman discovered that his own Anglican bishops not only failed to teach the principles of the via media but opposed them.