do Anglicans consider themselves more as Catholics or as Protestants?

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  1. Nevis

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    what do you do, if you are anglican?
     
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    What a weird question.

    Do Catholics think of themselves more as Anglicans or Protestants?

    Do Protestants this of themselves more as Anglicans or Catholics?

    Just weird.

    I, an Anglican, think of myself more as an Anglican.
     
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    itbis not weird

    could you please stop insulting me all the time?
     
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    does your constantvinsulting mevgive you pleasure?

    is that Christian?
     
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    i have read here many times that people as Catholics … bot RCC …. but catholics!


    sonmy question makes sense!
     
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    Do you go on Roman Catholic sites and ask such questions of them? I am curious.
     
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    I think what you're referring to is the practice of Anglicans and some Lutherans to refer to themselves as being both Catholic and Protestant or as reformed Catholics. Some will refer to themselves as catholic from the understanding of "catholic" meaning universal. It is also the case that Anglicans have historically viewed themselves as part of the unbroken line to the Apostolic Church through means of the Roman Catholic Church in England, then becoming reformed over time. One could then rightly refer to themselves as Catholic but not Roman Catholic. The same could be said of all the Old Catholics and similar groups.
     
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    at last a good answer
     
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    you did not understand my question


    instead you chose to insult. me



    saaaaaaaaaaad
     
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    imthink i have been mocked and mobbed enough now
     
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    a great pity my question was not understood
     
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    Nevis, for a person who posts so frequently and in such varied ways, you seem to have a very thin skin. I was not trying to insult you but I can see how you would take it that way, so - apologies. You also messaged me the same questions so it really isn't necessary to repeat yourself in public and in private - once should be enough.

    I was questioning the very question itself, and yes, my response was probably stated in a sarcastic manner. But to me it just seemed so silly. But others on here have expressed themselves in more theological ways that seem to have satisified you, so that is good.

    I probably react a bit to your incessant one and two words posts with a question mark, and then the urgent request for responses. Your style of posting is just very unusual to me, especially on this forum, where posters tend to write longer and more thoughtful and theologically based posts. Despite having studied theology myself, I am not much for posting in theological terms, so I do understand, but the brevity and urgency of your posts comes across as sort of rude (to me). But I will try to be more understanding and patient in future - we are all different.

    As for this question - despite having been a member of the RCC before converting to Anglicanism, I don't consider myself more RC than Protestant. I consider myself catholic in a universal catholic way, but mainly I consider myself Anglican.
     
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    of course Anglicans are Anglicans

    my question was about the various tendencies
     
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    btw …

    i am typing on a rather simple tablet

    hence the short sentences and the many typos
     
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    At the risk of upsetting some, the Anglican tradition is very clearly a Protestant tradition. Its worship, doctrine and practice are well within Protestantism. Individual Anglicans may claim that they are this or that but that is really quite beside the point.
     
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    what a weird answer ,,,,
     
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    ok!
     
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    When I was an RC, all other Christian denominations were considered to be Protestants, unless they were one of the 23 Eastern Catholic churches.
     
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    I would prefer to say we are a catholic church within the reformed tradition. The act of separation was more about Papal authority in England than it was about doctrine and dogma. Popes had behaved more like Princes for at least 500 years and clearly were involved in the affairs of state - many states. The Anglican Church as it came to be with the Elizabethan Settlement was a church that retained the old order fully cognisant of the new era. In a post Vatican II world endless distinction between Protestant and Catholic seems to speak of the old order of things.
     
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