“However to say that Anglicanism is without dogma is wide of the mark - not least the 39 articles that clergy should assent to at ordination and induction into parishes.”
You have said eloquently in a few sentences what my original rambling response did not say half so well in many. Anyhow, The 39 Articles are indeed Reformed in dogma, but do modern Anglican clergy pledge to uphold them? I know there is something called the Reformed Episcopal Church that uses the articles in their statement of faith, but in all my years as an Episcopalian, I never once heard these nearly Calvinistic points of doctrine discussed.
I left the Anglican church over these issues of historic doctrinal issues.
When I was inducted (by Rowan no less then archbishop of Wales - and a really nice though liberal-to-his-toes type of guy) I was told that he would ask me about the 39 articles but he would not look at me when I answered, so there was no need to take it seriously.
But I did. And I was virtually hounded out of the church for it (another story) and I am now a minister to a delightful small reformed evangelical church.
But there are pockets of grand historic Anglicans - in the UK the Church society and Reform, and in Australia the diocese of Sidney. And of course most African clergy.
I love Anglicanism, but it has been defeated from within. Cranmer Latimer Ridley to name but a few, we are not worthy of them. It breaks my heart.