Anglicanism Didn't Begin With Henry
Monday, April 30, 2018 at 09:26PM
Embryo Parson in Anglican Orders, Anglican Spiritual Life, Anglo-Calvinism, Anglo-Catholicism, Ascetical Theology, Benedictine Spirituality, Book of Common Prayer, Caroline Divines, Church of England, Continuing Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, English Reformation, Evangelical and Catholic, Historical Theology, Oxford Movement, Roman Catholicism, The Problem of Anglican Identity, Traditional Anglicanism, Why Anglicanism?

Or with Cranmer.  Or with the Elizabethan Settlement.  Enough already from the apologists for Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy and "Anglicanism-As-Established".

"This combination of characteristics, collectively known as what Thornton calls “English spirituality,” was developing in the English isles centuries before the Reformation. When we are challenged by the notion of Anglicanism being a relatively recent phenomenon, occasioned by a crazy king, we need to remind ourselves that this beautiful Anglican way of adoration began long before the sixteenth century."

What he said.

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