The Anglican Communion has as its special characteristic and contribution to the life of the whole church not any one element in specially conspicuous development, but precisely a combination of the elements which elsewhere tend to exist in separation. We have to hold together these three elements—catholic, evangelical, and what is commonly called liberal [Temple did not use liberal in the sense that it has developed today].

—William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Thoughts on Some Problems of the Day (1931)