Across families
Anglicanism and Conservative (Masorti) Judaism
Different families with 11 axes in close agreement — the sort of pairing a quiz weighting only the divine axes would never surface. Mean distance across all seventeen axes: 0.14 (0 would be identical).
Deliberately broad: scripture, tradition and reason weighted together, with liturgical form holding together people who disagree doctrinally. Has the widest dispersions of any Christian body here, and that width is the tradition rather than a defect in the data.
Halakhah is binding and also historically developed, so the law changes deliberately and slowly through a scholarly process. Sits between Orthodox and Reform on almost every axis, and does so on purpose.
Where they agree
A4 Locus
Both sit at between wholly beyond the world and fully present within it — a gap of 0.00.
D3 The body
Both sit at between to be disciplined and to be celebrated — a gap of 0.00.
C2 Shape of time
Both sit at one life, then judgment — a gap of 0.02.
B1 Source of truth
Both sit at leaning revealed and fixed — a gap of 0.02.
E4 Standing of nature
Both sit at between creation, given for use and animate and itself sacred — a gap of 0.03.
E2 Origin of the cosmos
Both sit at an intentional act — a gap of 0.03.
A1 Divine reality
Both sit at a divine reality certainly exists — a gap of 0.03.
B2 Reading of sacred text
Both sit at between literal and binding and metaphorical, or no text at all — a gap of 0.08.
D2 Centrality of ritual
Both sit at leaning essential and prescribed and essential and prescribed respectively — a gap of 0.08.
A3 Plurality
Both sit at strictly one — a gap of 0.10.
A2 Personhood
Both sit at a personal being one can address and leaning a personal being one can address respectively — a gap of 0.10.
Where they part company
C3 The human condition
Anglicanism: leaning fallen and in need of rescue. Conservative (Masorti) Judaism: leaning ignorant but fundamentally sound. A gap of 0.42 on an axis running from “fallen and in need of rescue” to “ignorant but fundamentally sound”.
E3 Locus of belonging
Anglicanism: between a people, inherited and an individual choice. Conservative (Masorti) Judaism: a people, inherited. A gap of 0.40 on an axis running from “a people, inherited” to “an individual choice”.
All seventeen axes
| Axis | Anglicanism | Conservative (Masorti) Judaism | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 Divine reality | a divine reality certainly exists | a divine reality certainly exists | 0.03 |
| A2 Personhood | a personal being one can address | leaning a personal being one can address | 0.10 |
| A3 Plurality | strictly one | strictly one | 0.10 |
| A4 Locus | between wholly beyond the world and fully present within it | between wholly beyond the world and fully present within it | 0.00 |
| B1 Source of truth | leaning revealed and fixed | leaning revealed and fixed | 0.02 |
| B2 Reading of sacred text | between literal and binding and metaphorical, or no text at all | between literal and binding and metaphorical, or no text at all | 0.08 |
| B3 Institutional authority | between clergy and tradition decide and individual conscience decides | leaning clergy and tradition decide | 0.14 |
| C1 Survival of the self | continues in some form | between ends at death and continues in some form | 0.32 |
| C2 Shape of time | one life, then judgment | one life, then judgment | 0.02 |
| C3 The human condition | leaning fallen and in need of rescue | leaning ignorant but fundamentally sound | 0.42 |
| D1 Mechanism of the ultimate good | leaning given as grace | between given as grace and achieved by effort or insight | 0.34 |
| D2 Centrality of ritual | leaning essential and prescribed | essential and prescribed | 0.08 |
| D3 The body | between to be disciplined and to be celebrated | between to be disciplined and to be celebrated | 0.00 |
| E1 Exclusivity | between one true path and many valid paths | leaning many valid paths | 0.20 |
| E2 Origin of the cosmos | an intentional act | an intentional act | 0.03 |
| E3 Locus of belonging | between a people, inherited and an individual choice | a people, inherited | 0.40 |
| E4 Standing of nature | between creation, given for use and animate and itself sacred | between creation, given for use and animate and itself sacred | 0.03 |
Positions for Anglicanism rest principally on Thirty-Nine Articles (1571) and the Book of Common Prayer; for Conservative (Masorti) Judaism, on Emet Ve-Emunah (1988) and Committee on Jewish Law and Standards responsa. Per-cell sources are listed on each tradition’s own page.
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