C. P. Krauth pegged the Anglicans in one witty sentence.
"Its Articles, Homilies, and Liturgy have been a great bulwark of Protestantism; and yet, seemingly, out of the very stones of that bulwark has been framed, in our day, a bridge on which many have passed over into Rome...It harbors a skepticism which takes infidelity by the hand, and a revised medievalism which longs to throw itself, with tears, on the neck of the Pope and the Patriarch, to beseech them to be gentle and not to make the terms of restored fellowship too difficult."
Charles P. Krauth,
The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology,
Philadelphia:
The United Lutheran Publication House,
1913 (first edition, 1871),
p. x.