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This book seeks to explain the ways in which Anglicans have sought to practice theology in their various contexts. It is a clear, insightful, and reliable guide which avoids technical jargon and roots its discussions in concrete examples. The book is primarily a work of historical theology, which engages deeply with key texts and writers from across the tradition (e.g. Cranmer, Jewel, Hooker,...

continuity of the Church of England with the past, so it tended to underplay the Reformation, seeing it as at best a necessary evil to purge the Church of some of the worst excesses of Rome and at worst a wholesale distortion of the truth. By the end of the 1830s, approaches to the Reformation could be polemically charged. A good example is offered by Hurrell Froude, a close friend of John Keble and Newman, and one of the youthful leaders of the Oxford Movement in the 1830s, who had the misfortune
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