Anglicanism and the Christian Church: Theological Resources in Historical Perspective
Overview
Anglicanism and the Christian Church is a work of considerable strategic importance for the ecumenical movement and for the Anglican Communion. It describes and interprets Anglican understanding of the Christian Church, from the Reformation to the present day. This volume presents the development of Anglican identity and ecclesiology in its historical context, focusing particularly on Anglican engagement with the Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions. The volume also provides substantial accounts of the major Anglican theologians, from Richard Hooker to modern writers.
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- Preface by the author
- Discusses the influence of evangelical theology
- Reflects on the integrity of Anglicanism for the future
- Bibliographical references and index
Top Highlights
“Richard Hooker (1554–1600) is unquestionably the greatest Anglican theologian” (Page 31)
“Anglicanism for Hooker was a method as well as an institution. Hooker’s method, with its distinctive hermeneutic of Scripture, reason and the living tradition of the Church, falls outside the scope of this present study.” (Page 31)
“Together with Richard Field, Hooker constructed the permanent architecture of Anglican ecclesiology” (Page 31)
“In the first part of this book I show how a distinctive Anglican ecclesiology was formed through the work of the Anglican Reformers, followed by Hooker and Field—though it is complicated for us by the now anachronistic identity of Church and society in a single Christian commonwealth, ruled by ‘the godly prince’. I call this ‘the Erastian paradigm’, because the State was the dominant partner in oversight of doctrine, liturgy and discipline.” (Page xiv)
“For Hooker, the Church is not purely the creature of divine revelation. It is not merely supernatural, the ‘mystical’ Church. It is also a political body, with structures of governance that should reflect the received wisdom of political philosophy.” (Page 32)
- Title: Anglicanism and the Christian Church: Theological Resources in Historical Perspective
- Author: Paul Avis
- Publisher: T & T Clark
- Publication Date: 2002
- Pages: 415