One thing commending church leaders to the experienced as incompetent is their implacable commitment to the imbecility that diet is of no account to spiritual life. 1 Anglicanism is the Latin Church. The Latin Church is Hieronymean Exegesis, Ambrosian Liturgy, Benedictine Organization, Carthusian Piety and Franciscan Logic. Until it is refreshed by the Systematics of Logos Theology , Christian Biblical Exegesis is at a dead-end, being mere whimsy contrived from regnant prejudice. Theology is the theory.
Scripture is the notation.
The Church is the instrument. Life is the music. God is the player. The church grinds under ignorant, ill-disciplined leadership, scholars and clergy. A small surge in lay membership reflects lay determination to save the church from the leaders and the religion from the church.