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The Anglican Church has a rich theological heritage filled with a diversity of views and practices. Like a river with a main current and several offshoot streams, Anglicanism has a main body with many distinct, smaller communities. So what constitutes mainstream Anglicanism? Influential Anglican theologian J. I. Packer makes the case that “authentic Anglicanism” is biblical, liturgical,...

cut any ice in the world, is that we evangelize. That means teaching personal faith, repentance, new birth. But, as I have said, the Carolines, who looked back so lovingly to patristic literature, thought of the early church as institutionalized, and they were therefore institutional in the way they regarded the Church of England. They were establishmentarians. Even in their own day, they began to be called High Churchmen, and so they were. Maintaining the church—that is, the ongoing pattern and
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