Interpretations.Dear editor, I am grateful for Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan's response (May 2003) to my letter of April 2003, in which she acknowledges that there is "a wide range of interpretation with(in) the Anglican Communion Anglican Communion, the body of churches in all parts of the world that are in communion with the Church of England (see England, Church of). The communion is composed of regional churches, provinces, and separate dioceses bound together by mutual loyalty as of the nature of Christ's presence" in the Lord's Supper. Of course, our church's formularies have never contained dogmatic dog·mat·ic adj. 1. Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma. 2. Characterized by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles. See Synonyms at dictatorial. eucharistic definitions that are binding on all Anglicans, let alone ones equating our doctrine with that of Rome. Ms. Barnett-Cowan and others are free to give primacy to the 1982 ARCIC ARCIC Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission ARCIC Army Capabilities Integration Center (US Army) ARCIC Accident Rehabilitation & Compensation Insurance Corporation (New Zealand) document as the basis for their eucharistic views; I hope that those of us who understand our canonical The standard or authoritative method. The term comes from "canon," which is the law or rules of the church. See canonical name and canonical synthesis. canonical - (Historically, "according to religious law") 1. Gary Graber Toronto |
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