The local and international effects of the ideological agenda of the diocese of Sydney—the largest, richest, and most influential diocese in the Anglican Church of Australia—are explored in this commentary. Over the past few decades, Anglicans in Sydney have increasingly modeled themselves on the sixteenth-century English Puritans, altering church services to strictly oppose the equality of women in the Church and preventing the Church's blessing of same-sex partnerships and the ordination of gay people.With this increasing religious fundamentalism, it is theorized that a schism within the Church of England may occur.

The New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church

Politics & Social Sciences

Porter, Muriel

Sociology

Melbourne University Press

Land of the spirit?: The Australian religious experience (Risk book series)

Wcc Publications

Beyond the twelve: Women disciples in the gospels

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Wisdom Press

Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism: The Sydney Experiment (Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology)

Sydney Anglicans, always ultra-conservative in terms of liturgy, theology and personal morality, have increasingly modelled themselves on sixteenth century English Puritanism. Over the past few decades, they have added radical congregationalism to the mix. They have altered church services, challenged church order, and relentlessly opposed all attempts to ordain women as priests, let alone bishops. Muriel Porter unpacks how Australia's largest and, until recently, richest diocese developed its ideological fervour, and explores the impact it is having both in Australia and the Anglican Communion.

Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism (Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology)

Routledge

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