Editing Continuing Anglican movement (section)

==Theological unity and diversity==
[[File:St. Mark's Anglican Church Vero Beach Side View.jpg|thumb|St. Mark's Anglican Church, [[Vero Beach, Florida]], is a parish of the Diocese of the Eastern United States in the [[Anglican Province of America]].]]
Anglicanism in general has historically viewed itself as a ''via media'' between the [[Calvinism|Reformed]] tradition and the [[Lutheran]] tradition, and after the [[Oxford Movement]], certain clerics have sought a balance of the emphases of [[Catholicity|Catholicism]] and [[Protestantism]], while tolerating a range of expressions of [[evangelicalism]] and ceremony.<ref name="AEH2003">{{cite book |title=Anglican and Episcopal History |date=2003 |publisher=Historical Society of the Episcopal Church |page=15 |quote=Others had made similar observations, Patrick McGrath commenting that the Church of England was not a middle way between Roman Catholic and Protestant, but 'between different forms of Protestantism,' and William Monter describing the Church of England as 'a unique style of Protestantism, a {{lang|la|via media}} between the Reformed and Lutheran traditions.' MacCulloch has described Cranmer as seeking a middle way between Zurich and Wittenberg but elsewhere remarks that the Church of England was 'nearer Zurich and Geneva than Wittenberg'.}}</ref> Clergy and laity from all Anglican [[churchmanship]] traditions have been active in the formation of the Continuing Anglican movement.

There are [[high church]], [[broad church]], and [[low church]] Continuing Anglican jurisdictions. Some are [[Anglo-Catholic]] with richly ceremonial liturgical practices. These include the [[Anglican Province of Christ the King]], the [[Anglican Catholic Church]], the [[Anglican Province of America]], and the [[Anglican Church in America]]. Others that belong to the [[Reformed Anglican]] tradition, such as the [[United Episcopal Church of North America]], support the [[Thirty-Nine Articles]] and, in some parishes, alternate [[Morning Prayer (Anglican)|Morning Prayer]] with [[Holy Communion]].

The Continuing churches in the United States reject the [[Book of Common Prayer (1979)|1979 revision of the Book of Common Prayer]] made by the [[Episcopal Church (United States)]] and instead use the [[Book of Common Prayer (1928, United States)|American 1928 version]], or earlier official versions of the [[Book of Common Prayer]], for their services.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Politzer |first=Jerome E. |title=A Form of Godliness: An analysis of the changes in doctrine and discipline in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer |url=https://www.holycatholicanglican.org/resources/Form%20of%20Godliness.pdf |access-date=August 21, 2022 |archive-date=August 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821201257/https://www.holycatholicanglican.org/resources/Form%20of%20Godliness.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gardner |first=Martin |date=August 23, 2006 |title=The Church as Holy |url= https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/35019213/the-church-as-holy-a-paper-written-and-delivered-by-the-rev- |access-date=August 23, 2023 |website=Yumpu.com}}</ref>

The liturgical use of the 1611 [[Authorized Version]] of the Bible (known in the United States as the King James Version) is also a common feature. This is done for many reasons, including aesthetic preferences and theological opposition to what the churches regard as [[Liberal Christianity|liberal]] or [[Progressive Christianity|progressive]] theology, which is said to characterize some more recent translations.<ref>{{Citation |title=What is the King James (Authorized Version) of scripture? | date=April 26, 2021 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSbp_vB0tQ0 |access-date=March 28, 2023}}</ref>

The [[Affirmation of St. Louis]]<ref name="affirmation">{{cite web |url= https://766d9605-f95a-4aab-964a-0880b023b2e1.filesusr.com/ugd/47db7e_e1e9e535b91349beaac218a0982086a8.pdf |title=The Affirmation of St. Louis (1977) |via=filesusr.com}}</ref>—adopted at the [[Congress of St. Louis]] (September 14–16, 1977) by over 2000<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.sbanglican.org/affirmation.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081120001921/http://www.sbanglican.org/affirmation.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 20, 2008 |title=The Affirmation of St. Louis |work=SBAnglican.org |publisher=Santa Barbara Anglican Church of Our Savior |date=November 20, 2008 |access-date=February 8, 2020}}</ref> bishops, clergy, and laypeople—and to a lesser extent the [[Thirty-nine Articles|Thirty-nine Articles of Religion]] and [[The Books of Homilies]] serve as standards of faith and unity for most Continuing churches.