Episcopacy as Essential to the Church – A Phantasmic Position [Commentary on Browne: Article XXIII (1)]
In articulating what it means for ministers to be “lawfully called,” Article XXIII makes no mention at all of bishops: “The latter portion of the Article is somewhat vaguely worded…. It is but generally asserted, that lawful calling can only be given by those, ‘who have public authority in the Church to send labourers into…