Carefully selected from the leading Anglican writers of the seventeenth century, the following compendium includes whole sections on the Anglican Faith, the Church, the Rule of Faith, the concepts of ministry and the priesthood, the Sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist, and a concluding section on Anglican Spirituality, particularly prayer and piety. When a great tradition begins to stumble and flounder amidst its own self-criticism and uncertainties, that seems to be the propitious moment to reach down and back to its ...
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Carefully selected from the leading Anglican writers of the seventeenth century, the following compendium includes whole sections on the Anglican Faith, the Church, the Rule of Faith, the concepts of ministry and the priesthood, the Sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist, and a concluding section on Anglican Spirituality, particularly prayer and piety. When a great tradition begins to stumble and flounder amidst its own self-criticism and uncertainties, that seems to be the propitious moment to reach down and back to its formative years of certainty and confidence. Few watchers of things ecclesiastical will question but what the Anglican Communion and particularly The Episcopal Church in the United States of America are presently in the throws of just such a period of questioning uncertainty about its own "raison d'etre".
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