Our unity was theological, not conciliar, as Tay and Kolini wrote George Carey (the occasion of the consecration of John Rogers and Chuck Murphy): "Any strategy that seeks to ground the unity of the Anglican Communion with its foundation in political accommodation rather than in the essentials of the Christian faith is doomed.

Since Thomas Cranmer's 1552 Book of Common Prayer until the 1979 Prayer Book revision, the communion table was called a "table" so that is wasn't confused with an "altar" and the medieval Catholic understanding of the sacrament.

The real question in our understanding of baptism is whether the baptism service wording stands on its own (borrowed from the Medieval Catholic liturgy and understanding), or whether the Thirty-nine Articles and the Homilies must be considered as commentaries to give us a full understanding. A fair look at all the historic formularies will help us understand Anglican sacramental theology.

At the "Council of Africa" (as Augustine called the Council of Carthage), the catholic church restated what the Bible teaches about human nature. Augustine believed that our love for sin is a consequence of Adam and Eve's original disobedience (the Fall), and that the end result is that all people are spiritually infected, dead in our trespasses and sins, and "by nature children of wrath" (Eph 2). We sin because we are sinners (Original Sin, Rom 5).