Title: Anglicanism and the Christian Church : theological resources in historical perspective /
Authors: Avis, Paul D. L.
Publisher: T & T Clark,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Church of England Doctrines History.; Church of England Relations.; Anglican Communion Doctrines History.; Anglican Communion Relations; Church History of doctrines.
Contents: The English reformers and the Christian church : The English Reformation in revision ; The church visible and invisible ; The marks of the true church ; The English reformers' view of the church of Rome ; THe appeal to ancient precedent ; Continental influences on emergent Anglicanism ; Political not confessional identity ; The reformers on the Reformation ; Reformation ecumenism ; Episcopacy and catholicity -- Architects of Anglican ecclesiology: Hooker and Field : Richard Hooker's place in Anglicanism ; The church visible and mystical ; The foundation of Christianity ; The fate of 'our fathers' ; Hooker on the Reformation ; Hooker on John Calvin ; Bishops by the law of God? ; Hooker on the Christian commonwealth ; Richard Field: the church visible and invisible ; The Catholic church and the Roman church ; Field on the reformers and the Reformation ; Presbyter, bishop and king -- An Anglican consensus : Between Rome and Reformation ; Calvinist Episcopalians ; Joseph Hall ; James Ussher ; The Anglican ethos ; High church trends and the Reformation ; The church in danger ; Benjamin Hoadty and William Law -- The early Anglican liberal Protestants : Lucius Cary, Lord Falkland ; William Chillingworth ; John Hales ; John Locke ; Gilbert Burnet -- The early Anglican liberal Catholics : John Bramhall ; Jeremy Taylor ; Edward Stillingfleet ; William Wake -- Exemplar of the high church tradition : Lancelot Andrewes ; William Laud ; Henry Hammond ; Herbert Thorndike ; Daniel Waterland ; The nonjurors ; Sacheverell and Atterbury ; The high church tradition at the turn of the eighteenth century -- Methodism and evangelicalism : John Wesley and the Methodist movement ; From movement to church ; Methodist ecclesiology ; Evangelicalism and the Anglican consensus ; Representatives of evangelical ecclesiology: Litton and Goode