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[[Image:Canterbury.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Canterbury Cathedral]] is the mother church of the Church of England]]

[[Image:Canterbury.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Canterbury Cathedral]] is the mother church of the Church of England]]

The '''Church of England''' is the [[England|English]] national [[church]]. The Church traces its history back to at least the fourth century A.D. It contains High Church elements (similar in ritual to the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]]), Low Church elements (similar to [[Methodism|Methodists]]), and a Broad Church middle.  It is part of the worldwide [[Anglican Communion]].  Under King [[Henry VIII]] England broke with Rome and reasserted its independence in questions of [[religion]].

The '''Church of England''' is the [[woke]] [[England|English]] national [[church]]. The Church traces its history back to at least the fourth century A.D. It contains High Church elements (similar in ritual to the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]]), Low Church elements (similar to [[Methodism|Methodists]]), and a Broad Church middle.  It is part of the worldwide [[Anglican Communion]].  Under King [[Henry VIII]] England broke with Rome and reasserted its independence in questions of [[religion]].

The Church of England is sometimes call the "mother church" of the Anglican Communion, but that is misleading because the Church of England does not have authority over churches that are also part of the Anglican Communion in more than 160 other countries.

The Church of England is sometimes call the "mother church" of the Anglican Communion, but that is misleading because the Church of England does not have authority over churches that are also part of the Anglican Communion in more than 160 other countries.

===Protestant Experimentalists (group of Anglican modernists)===

===Protestant Experimentalists (group of Anglican modernists)===

In the early 20th century several Anglican priests and scholars showed interest in the new wired and wireless communications technologies such as radio and their possible use in furthering Christianity.  Their interests included telepathy, psychic research, psychology, and healing.  Such Anglican intellectuals were the Anglican Archbishop Frederick Du Vernet and the Espicopal bible scholar Kirsopp Lake.<ref>[http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/75/3/651 "Radio Mind: Protestant Experimentalists on the Frontiers of Healing"], ''Journal of the American Academy of Religion'' 2007 75(3):651-683</ref>

In the early 20th century several Anglican priests and scholars showed interest in the new wired and wireless communications technologies such as radio and their possible use in furthering Christianity.  Their interests included telepathy, psychic research, psychology, and healing.  Such Anglican intellectuals were the Anglican Archbishop Frederick Du Vernet and the Espicopal bible scholar Kirsopp Lake.<ref>[http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/75/3/651 "Radio Mind: Protestant Experimentalists on the Frontiers of Healing"], ''Journal of the American Academy of Religion'' 2007 75(3):651-683</ref>

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