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The Identity of Anglicanism: Essentials of Anglican Ecclesiology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Anglicanism can be wonderful, mystifying, and infuriating. For some, it is an expression of the Church catholic, going back to the early Church and the apostles. For others it is a pragmatic compromise dating from Henry. Paul Avis expounds an Anglicanism that is both catholic and reformed and open to fresh insight. On this interpretation, what is distinctive about Anglicanism is its...

God’, and no theory of this ministry is countenanced that would unchurch other bodies. It is a practical, not a speculative order, one attuned to pastoral care, rather than to maintaining a hierarchical and authoritarian structure of doctrine and discipline. Anglican faith and order are clearly central to Anglican ‘confessional’ identity in the sense of confessional identity (to be distinguished from ‘confessionalism’) worked out by the Groupe des Dombes in For the Conversion of the Churches. I have
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