[2] With the Oxford Movement being even "higher" than them they first called themselves "Old High Church", but after failing to stop the rise of Anglo-Catholicism they adopted the Center position.
Other English bishops, including Robert Stopford, Henry Montgomery Campbell, and Mervyn Haigh also favored a central churchmanship approach, as a way of defusing tensions within their dioceses, and as a way of promoting a so-called "brand image" for the Church of England.
Traditionally "broad church" was called Latitudinarianism which supported a broad-based (sensu lato, with "laxitude") Anglicanism where many views were allowed.
[5] Whereas those of Center churchmanship were tightly bound, and believed others should be as well, to the doctrine of the prayer book rubrics which they did not deviate from in either Anglo-Catholic or Low Church directions.
Central Churchmen are Sacramental Arminians in outlook, believing that baptism confers regeneration, that one can leave the faith if one apostatizes, Election is Corporate and that Christ is truly spiritually present in the elements of Communion.