Canada: Anglican Church offshoot launched
Liberal 'poison' blamed for schism
Charles Lewis, National Post
Friday, November 23, 2007

BURLINGTON - A parallel national Anglican Church was launched yesterday amid charges by a leading theologian that the Anglican Church of Canada has been poisoned by liberalism and that is the real cause of the schism now underway.

"Schism means unwarranted and unjustified separation from the rest of the Church [structure], causing an indefensible breach of unity," said J.I. Packer, a Canadian who Time magazine called one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America. "Those who are unfaithful to the heritage are the schismatics. It is not we who are the schismatics."

Prof. Packer said the Anglican Church of Canada has been "poisoned" by a liberal theology that "knows nothing of a God who uses [the Bible] to tell us things and knows nothing of sin in the heart and in the head." He said the Church is being ruined by its attempts to "play catch-up with the culture" by adopting whatever "is the in-thing." the rest