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Anglicanism and the Christian Church: Theological Resources in Historical Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a work of considerable strategic importance for the ecumenical movement and for the Anglican Communion. It describes and interprets Anglican understanding of the Christian Church, from the Reformation to the present day. This volume presents the development of Anglican identity and ecclesiology in its historical context, focusing particularly on Anglican engagement with the Roman Catholic...

Richard Hooker (1554–1600) is unquestionably the greatest Anglican theologian. It is significant, therefore, that his writings are concerned almost entirely with ecclesiology. Together with Richard Field, Hooker constructed the permanent architecture of Anglican ecclesiology. Together with Thomas Cranmer, he set the tone of Anglican spirituality for centuries to come. But his achievement was greater than
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