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Author Middleton, Arthur.

Title Restoring the Anglican mind / Arthur Middleton
Published Leominster, England : Gracewing, 2008

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Description ix, 122 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Vision and wholeness -- The Crockford's preface -- Schmemann and A return to the fathers -- The meaning of the Peculiar character -- The Book of common prayer -- The source and context of Anglican theology -- During the interregnum -- The spirit of tractarianism -- Returning to prescriptive sources
Summary They point us in the way of the re-integration of the universal Church in east and west, to a western orthodoxy, that is free from the relativism of the present: such orthodox Christian faith comes in all its saving power to identify with the world, but refuses to be accommodated to it, because its authority lies in its bringing to bear on the world an insight more adequate than the world's own." -- Back cover
"Canon Middleton takes us back to these prescriptive sources, and shows us that Anglicanism has its own peculiar character, and one that still speaks to us today. ... These prescriptive sources speak to us of an issue facing us that is far bigger than the saving of the Church of England; it is the saving of the Apostolic Faith and Order of the Church, for which Ignatius died
Bibliography Includes bibliographical footnote references
Subject Church of England -- Doctrines.
Church of England. Thirty-nine Articles.
Episcopal Church -- Doctrines.
SUBJECT Bible -- Theology. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013722
Subject Anglican Communion -- Doctrines.
Anglican Communion.
Anglicanism
Anglicans -- History.
Evangelicalism -- Church of England -- History.
Fathers of the church -- Influence.
Religious disputations.
Theologians -- History.
Theology, Doctrinal -- History.
ISBN 9780852446959