This review (find it here) of Julia Duin’s DAYS OF FIRE AND GLORY: THE RISE AND FALL OF A CHARISMATIC COMMUNITY got me thinking.
Discussions on Covenant-Communion most often concern the boundary land between Evangelical, Catholic (NOT necessarily Roman), and Progressive Anglicans. Charismatic is rarely a category that seems to matter here.
It is interesting to note that Pulkingham’s fall revolves around an over emphasis on personal experience, a criticism Evangelicals lay at the feet of Progressives. Charismatics say of Evangelicals that their Trinity is “Father, Son, and Holy Scripture.”
The greatest tragedy of the current conflict in the Anglican world, IMV, is the breaking of bonds between Evangelical, Catholic, Charismatic, and Progressive Anglicans. Each has a critical piece to contribute, but we are no longer in any kind of place to hear each other.
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