What is the Anglican/Old Catholic view?

[Gianna]

Hi there. I'm Eastern Orthodox and I have a question about your church-
In the eastern orthodox forum someone asked what the "end times" view is. I answered that our view is amillenial and that I was pretty sure that I read somewhere that this is your view also? Am I correct or wrong? If i was wrong, I will go back and correct my post...I should have asked before I said anything and I beg your pardon. Please let me know.
Thank you and God bless you!
Gianna

[Wigglesworth]

There may be many answers to your question in this forum.

:)

[karen freeinchristman]

Hi there. I'm Eastern Orthodox and I have a question about your church-
In the eastern orthodox forum someone asked what the "end times" view is. I answered that our view is amillenial and that I was pretty sure that I read somewhere that this is your view also? Am I correct or wrong? If i was wrong, I will go back and correct my post...I should have asked before I said anything and I beg your pardon. Please let me know.
Thank you and God bless you!
Gianna
We don't really have an official end times doctrine, and there will be many different views amongst Anglicans. We take our cues from Scripture, Tradition and Reason - and one can come up with a diversity of end times views from that! Personally, I veer towards the amillenial.

Welcome, by the way! :)

[Gianna]

Okay, then I guess I was wrong...I was certain I had read it somewhere, but I must be mixed up if you say that a variety of opinions is allowed....I will go back and revise my post to reflect your answer...thanks for the welcome!!!
(hug)

[TomUK]

Anglicans don't have a doctrine per se. Our doctrine is the way we worship. Experience that and you will experience what we believe.

[Gianna]

Anglicans don't have a doctrine per se. Our doctrine is the way we worship. Experience that and you will experience what we believe.

Yes, I was in England last year and attended a service with a friend. It was at once very different from my own church, yet I saw shadows of it as well, which was very comforting to a "stranger in a strange new land."
I enjoyed it very much and very much enjoyed the people in it. Thank you for all your responses...most helpful!
:wave:

[Colabomb]

I myself am an amellinist (hard word to spell forgive me). I don't think the intricate doctrines of the second coming you see in many churches makes much biblical sense.

To me, reading Scripture, it appears to me that Christ will just.... show up someday. :P

[pmcleanj]

The best summary of the Anglican "end-times" view, may be that the end-times like the present times, are in the hands of God. And that we need not wait until the end-times to participate in the Salvation that God has offered us through His Son Jesus Christ, but can be Members of His Body and fellow-labourers in His Kingdom now through adoption and grace. When you are already a citizen of the Kingdom, the end times are largely irrelevant.

[Iosias]

I adhere to an historicist amillennialism which is optimistic, though I have some sympathy with partial-preterism :)

[JasonV]

though I have some sympathy with partial-preterism :)

Heretic! :P

[Izdaari]

The best summary of the Anglican "end-times" view, may be that the end-times like the present times, are in the hands of God. And that we need not wait until the end-times to participate in the Salvation that God has offered us through His Son Jesus Christ, but can be Members of His Body and fellow-labourers in His Kingdom now through adoption and grace. When you are already a citizen of the Kingdom, the end times are largely irrelevant.
:thumbsup:

That's probably the most elegant way I've ever heard my own view stated. I call it pan-millennialism (i.e., trust in the Lord and it will all pan out). ;)

[Iosias]

Heretic! :P

:holy:

[longhair75]

"and He will come in glory to judge the living and the dead and His Kingdom will have no end"

[Iosias]

Question 191: What do we pray for in the second petition.?
Answer: In the second petition (which is, Thy kingdom come), acknowledging ourselves and all mankind to be by nature under the dominion of sin and Satan, we pray, that the kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyed, the gospel propagated throughout the world, the Jews called, the fullness of the Gentiles brought in; the church furnished with all gospel officers and ordinances, purged from corruption, countenanced and maintained by the civil magistrate: that the ordinances of Christ may be purely dispensed, and made effectual to the converting of those that are yet in their sins, and the confirming, comforting, and building up of those that are already converted: that Christ would rule in our hearts here, and hasten the time of his second coming, and our reigning with him forever: and that he would be pleased so to exercise the kingdom of his power in all the world, as may best conduce to these ends.