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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,...

Good hymns do that; liturgy does that as well. Some of us have already discovered this and are enthusiasts for the Prayer Book as a result. You, perhaps, haven’t yet discovered it; but let me assure you it is there to be discovered. Anglicans as a body are a community of those who claim to have discovered it, so we employ liturgy in our public worship. Some of the modern liturgies are quite bad, but that is a different issue. Some modern hymns are very bad too. But we are talking in terms of ideals,
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