Table of Contents

Chapter One: The Identity of Anglicanism
Chapter Two: Norms and Methods in Anglican Theology I
Chapter Three: Norms and Methods in Anglican Theology II
Chapter Four: Liturgical and Sacramental Theology
Chapter Five: Moral Theology
Chapter Six: Ecclesiology
Conclusion: The future of Anglicanism

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An introduction for students and lay readers on the Anglican tradition of doing theology.

About the Author

Mark Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, and a Reader in Modern Theology at the University of Oxford, UK. He has written widely on modern church history, ethics and theology. His books include Ernst Troeltsch and Liberal Theology (Oxford), The Coming Crisis (Sheffield), Blair's Britain (DLT) and Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford).

Reviews

Chapman declares that “conflict is the normal state of Anglican theology throughout history”. He illustrates this from the time of the Henrican reformation to the present day. He provides a history of Anglican theology and employs the complementary skills of the historian and the theologian exceptionally well. It is a fascinating story, very well told. Chapman describes Anglicanism’s complexity as both infuriating and exciting. So it is.
*The Expository Times*

This book offers an unusual perspective on Anglican identity from the Reformation to the nineteenth century, with some reflections on the state of the Anglican communion today... Illuminates some key moments in the making of Anglican theology... A very useful study text.
*Journal of Ecclesiastical History*

The wider strength of the work is that it challenges readers (Anglicans, Ordinands, and none of the above) to a kind of ‘resourcement’ within Anglican thought.
*Theological Book Review*

A fascinating story, very well told. Chapman describes Anglicanism's complexity as both infuriating and exciting. So it is.
*Expository Times*

Is there such a thing as Anglican Theology? This is what Chapman explores in this rigorous but stimulating book. In a well presented but compact review, he shows how a plurality of theologies - especially of the church and authority - have always characterised Anglicanism.He begins with Henry VIII, but he could as well have begun with Bede and used the same rigorous method. He quotes primary as well as secondary sources and reveals step by step the lack of historical perspective in those who claim that their understanding is the right - or indeed the only - Anglican position. Since a theology of development is always potentially threatening, this timely study is important, not just for the Church of England but for the whole Anglican Communion.
*David Stancliffe, formerly Bishop of Salisbury, UK.*

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