Do please make known to friends in or alongside the Anglican Way!
ANGLICANISM. The Thought and Practice of the Church of England, illustrated from the religious literature of the seventeenth century. Compiled and edited by Paul Elmer More & Frank Leslie Cross, SPCK, London, 1935, reprinted 1951, 811 pages.
This storehouse of classic Anglican teaching on a wide variety of topics is now available on a CD in pdf format (you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read it) for $12.50 including postage and package (Pa residents add sales tax please). Send a check to The Prayer Book Society, P.O. Box 35220, Philadelphia, PA. 19128-0220 or visit (from May 9th) the website to order there – www.anglicanmarketplace.com
The writings of the 16th century Anglican reformers are exciting and profound and from them we get the Book of Common Prayer, the Articles of Religion and the Ordinal, together with a vast catechetical, expository and devotional writing, not to mention controversial divinity.
By the time of the 17th century, there had been a long time to reflect upon the nature of the Reformed Catholicism (English Protestantism) embraced by the Church of England from 1548 onwards. This Book contains extracts on many topics from those whom we often call the standard divines of the Anglican Way. To read and digest this book is to gain a tremendous insight into the nature and character of the Anglican Way and how as a jurisdiction of the One Church of God it is related to but different from the Roman Catholic, the Presbyterian and the Lutheran Churches.
The extracts from the writers, arranged under various headings, is prefaced by two essays on the nature of Anglicanism in these formative days and then as an appendix there is a brief biography of each of the divines cited in the text.
DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO READ A LONG OUT OF PRINT CLASSIC.
May 5th, 2004
The Rev’d Dr. Peter Toon, Vice-President of the Prayer Book Society of the U.S.A.
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