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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...

Abbey of Les Dombes near Lyon since 1937, and which has often set the pace for ecumenical progress) has some helpful things to say about provisionality. For the Conversion of the Churches (WCC, 1993) examines the concepts of identity and conversion in the Church.11 It distinguishes three levels of identity and conversion. First, there is our basic Christian identity, the orientation of personal faith to Jesus Christ. Clearly this demands continual conversion to God. Second, there is ecclesial identity,
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