Again, go to an evangelical church on Sunday morning. The adult participation in Sunday School is a judgment on the educational failure called the Episcopal Church. Third, McGrath utters a liberal taboo. He argues that commitment to the apostolic faith should be a requirement for seminary professors. Evangelical seminaries dismiss faculty who cannot affirm the tradition.
Episcopal seminaries regard such faculty as signs of liberal virtue.
Finally, McGrath is quite frank about the academic culture which dominates American theology. That culture tolerates theology only as an academically neutral or anti-traditional discipline, and as a result, prominent universities train Ph.D.'s for whom commitment to the Church is alien, if not worse. Whether or not one has a great fondness for American evangelicalism, McGrath's proposal should be welcomed. For the whole point and purpose of his tilt toward evangelicalism is the confidence that Anglicanism, seen as it desperately needs evangelicalism in order to renew its Christian vigor and intensity, has within itself the resources to transform the powerful evangelical expression of Christian faith into something at once more anciently catholic and more contemporarily liberal. It is a confident hope worth pursuing.