Anglicanism and the Christian Church Theological Resources in Historical Perspective

by Avis, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780567087454
• ISBN10: 056708745X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

This 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 book 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 book also provides substantial accounts of the major Anglican theologians, from Richard Hooker to modern writers.In this new and expanded edition, Paul Avis includes discussions of the influence of evangelical theology and reflects on the integrity of Anglicanism for the future.

Table of Contents

Preface to Revised and Expanded Edition	xiii
Part One THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: THE FORMATION OF ANGLICAN ECCLESIOLOGY
The English Reformers and the Christian Church	3	(28)
The English Reformation in Revision	3	(5)
The Church Visible and Invisible	8	(3)
The Marks of the True Church	11	(1)
The English Reformers' View of the Church of Rome	12	(2)
The Appeal to Ancient Precedent	14	(2)
Continental Influences on Emergent Anglicanism	16	(3)
Political not Confessional Identity	19	(2)
The Reformers on the Reformation	21	(2)
Reformation Ecumenism	23	(4)
Episcopacy and Catholicity	27	(4)
Architects of Anglican Ecclesiology: Hooker and Field	31	(30)
Richard Hooker's Place in Anglicanism	31	(2)
The Church Visible and Mystical	33	(3)
The Foundation of Christianity	36	(2)
The Fate of `Our Fathers'	38	(1)
Hooker on the Reformation	39	(2)
Hooker on John Calvin	41	(4)
Bishops by the Law of God?	45	(3)
Hooker on the Christian Commonwealth	48	(3)
Richard Field: The Church Visible and Invisible	51	(2)
The Catholic Church and the Roman Church	53	(3)
Field on the Reformers and the Reformation	56	(1)
Presbyter, Bishop and King	57	(4)
Part Two THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES: ANGLICANISM ERASTIAN OR APOSTOLIC?
An Anglican Consensus	61	(24)
Between Rome and Reformation	61	(6)
Calvinist Episcopalians	67	(1)
Joseph Hall	68	(1)
James Ussher	69	(3)
The Anglican Ethos	72	(5)
High Church Trends and the Reformation	77	(2)
The Church in Danger	79	(2)
Benjamin Hoadly and William Law	81	(4)
The Early Anglican Liberal Protestants	85	(22)
Lucius Cary, Lord Falkland	85	(3)
William Chillingworth	88	(4)
John Hales	92	(5)
John Locke	97	(3)
Gilbert Burnet	100	(7)
The Early Anglican Liberal Catholics	107	(24)
John Bramhall	107	(4)
Jeremy Taylor	111	(6)
Edward Stillingfleet	117	(4)
William Wake	121	(10)
Exemplars of the High Church Tradition	131	(26)
Lancelot Andrewes	131	(2)
William Laud	133	(4)
Henry Hammond	137	(4)
Herbert Thorndike	141	(3)
Daniel Waterland	144	(3)
The Nonjurors	147	(4)
Sacheverell and Atterbury	151	(3)
The High Church Tradition at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century	154	(3)
Methodism and Evangelicalism	157	(16)
John Wesley and the Methodist Movement	157	(2)
From Movement to Church	159	(2)
Methodist Ecclesiology	161	(1)
Evangelicalism and the Anglican Consensus	162	(5)
Representatives of Evangelical Ecclesiology: Litton and Goode	167	(6)
Part Three THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES: THE MAKING OF MODERN ANGLICANISM
The Church in Danger Again	173	(12)
Renewal and Conflict	173	(2)
A Crisis of Church and State	175	(6)
A Differentiated Tractarianism	181	(1)
A Crisis of Authority	181	(4)
The High Church Heritage	185	(20)
`Restorer of the Old Paths'	185	(3)
Hugh James Rose
A Case of Alienation	188	(7)
William Palmer
An Evangelical High Churchman	195	(1)
W. F. Hook
A Lay Theologian	196	(9)
W. E. Gladstone
The Reformation Under Attack	205	(16)
Hurrell Froude and a Subversive Document	205	(6)
Frederick Oakeley	211	(2)
W. G. Ward	213	(3)
Critique of Luther and Arnold	216	(5)
J. B. Mozley
Keble and Pusey: Retreat from the Reformation	221	(16)
A Hardening of Positions	221	(3)
John Keble
The Enigma of Pusey	224	(13)
The Anglican Newman	237	(28)
Evangelical and Catholic Roots	237	(3)
Exponent of Anglicanism	240	(2)
`The Spirit of Luther is Dead'	242	(3)
The Road to Rome	245	(5)
Developing Christianity	250	(6)
Assessments	256	(5)
The Anglican Manning	261	(4)
Defenders of the Reformation: The Nineteenth-Century Liberal Anglicans	265	(24)
S. T. Coleridge	265	(6)
Thomas Arnold	271	(7)
Connop Thirlwall	278	(1)
Mark Pattison	279	(1)
Julius Hare	280	(9)
F. D. Maurice	289	(12)
Critical Reverence for Tradition	289	(1)
Maurice and Luther	290	(1)
God at the Centre	291	(2)
An Unlikely Spark	293	(3)
Interpreting the Reformation	296	(5)
The Church and Salvation in Modern Anglican Theology	301	(20)
Which Modern Anglican Theology?	301	(3)
The Church's Role in Salvation	304	(13)
New Life	307	(1)
The Divine Society	308	(2)
The Sacramental Principle	310	(2)
Social Engagement	312	(2)
Bodily Resurrection	314	(1)
Cosmic Redemption	315	(1)
Seeing God	316	(1)
Assessment	317	(4)
Anglican Ecclesiology in the Late Twentieth Century: A Bibliographical Commentary	321	(14)
Towards an Authentic Paradigm for Anglicanism	335	(20)
Conflicting Historical Interpretations	335	(9)
A Sense of the Church	344	(11)
Abbreviations	355	(2)
Bibliography	357	(26)
Index of Subjects	383	(4)
Index of Names	387