Jay Thomas's recent First Things essay "Anglicans and the Abuja Contradiction" purports to expose fatal logical flaws in GAFCON's Jerusalem Declaration. In reality, it reveals something far more interesting: how easily appeals to "Anglican tradition" can mask fundamentally un-Anglican premises. Thomas's argument doesn't just...

he Abuja Affirmation marks the end of an era. The third largest Christian communion, Anglicanism (behind only Catholicism and Orthodoxy), has splintered. While its demise has been a drawn-out affair, the church has reached an inflection point. A crisis of authority has existed for over fifty...