http://www.amazon.com/Protestant-Face-Anglicanism-Paul-Zahl/dp/0802845975/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
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This volume tells a story that is virtually unknown today: The Protestant background and history of Anglican Christianity. Through a fascinating exploration of the development of Anglicanism and its wider Protestant context, Paul Zahl attempts to show-contrary to the opinion of many present-day "Anglican writers"-that Anglicanism is not just a via media (between Rome and Geneva, for example) but has been stamped decisively by classic Protestant insights and concerns. He also discusses the implications of Anglicanism's Protestant history for our own age, suggesting that this dimension has an important contribution to make to the worldwide Christian community in the new millennium
One reviewer, Robin G. Jordan, posts at amazon.com:
As James Packer and Roger Beckwith observe in their essay, "The Thirty-Nine Articles: Their Place and Use Today," the Church of England thought of itself as Protestant for four centuries before the Oxford Movement deliberately sought to change the church's identity in the nineteenth century and created the confusion around Anglican identity that has lasted to this day. Paul Zahl's book does a useful service in calling attention to the historic Protestant identity of Anglicanism. I definitely recommend it. I also recommend Peter Knockles' The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. He does an excellent job of demolishing the myths surrounding the Oxford Movement.
Description
This volume tells a story that is virtually unknown today: The Protestant background and history of Anglican Christianity. Through a fascinating exploration of the development of Anglicanism and its wider Protestant context, Paul Zahl attempts to show-contrary to the opinion of many present-day "Anglican writers"-that Anglicanism is not just a via media (between Rome and Geneva, for example) but has been stamped decisively by classic Protestant insights and concerns. He also discusses the implications of Anglicanism's Protestant history for our own age, suggesting that this dimension has an important contribution to make to the worldwide Christian community in the new millennium
One reviewer, Robin G. Jordan, posts at amazon.com:
As James Packer and Roger Beckwith observe in their essay, "The Thirty-Nine Articles: Their Place and Use Today," the Church of England thought of itself as Protestant for four centuries before the Oxford Movement deliberately sought to change the church's identity in the nineteenth century and created the confusion around Anglican identity that has lasted to this day. Paul Zahl's book does a useful service in calling attention to the historic Protestant identity of Anglicanism. I definitely recommend it. I also recommend Peter Knockles' The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857. He does an excellent job of demolishing the myths surrounding the Oxford Movement.
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