Arent Episcopal churches basically Roman Catholic?
We hear this often from those who do not understand the heritage of the Anglicans in England. All Anglicansand Episcopalians are basically Anglicansare heirs of the Protestant Reformation in England. Several of the English Protestant Reformers were burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church, which obviously means we have some differences! No, we are not Roman Catholic in some ways, and yet all Christians share some beliefs with the Roman Catholic Church. With the Roman Catholic Church, we believe the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed, which means we both hold to the Trinity, the incarnation of God the Son, and so forth. With most Protestants, we also recognize the baptism of the Roman Catholic Church, not requiring converts to us from Roman Catholicism to be re-baptized. And like the Roman Catholic Church, we also read a lot of prayers from a book, called the Book of Common Prayer, but the prayers may or may not be the same with the Roman Catholic Church. We also have what some
