Against "ghetto living", against 'The Cranmer Option'

If I had been asked some time last month, as part of the discussion around the idea of the 'Benedict Option', to define what a 'Cranmer Option' might look like, my response would have focussed on the generous orthodoxy of Reformed Catholicism, the vocation to be a national church, and common prayer gathering up into Christ life from cradle to grave. Such an understanding could be reasonably founded on Cranmer's theological writings, his liturgies, and the nature of the reformed ecclesia Anglicana shaped by the character and convictions of this (in Diarmaid MacCulloch's words) "cautious, well-read humanist". A rather different vision, however, is presented by the recent post on the North American Anglican , ' The Cranmer Option '. Part of the reason for the contrast would be that 'The Cranmer Option' - despite the name - shows little interest in Thomas Cranmer's theology (and, it might be added, is also rather critical of his lit...