the Reformation; its ministry and government; its ethos and terms of communion. It may perhaps raise a few eyebrows that I say ‘the Anglican understanding’ rather than ‘Anglican understandings’ in the plural. We have become accustomed to think of Anglicanism as a chronically pluralistic communion, without a unified and coherent approach to Christian doctrine, even to such central doctrines as those of ecclesiology. But the fact that I set out to present the theological resources of Anglican ecclesiology