Reformation Anglicanism - by Mark Earngey & Stephen Tong (Paperback)

About the Book

This collection of articles focuses on some foundational documents and foundational reformers involved with the English Reformation, and its Edwardian phase in particular.

Book Synopsis

Featuring essays from various reformation scholars, this collection of articles focuses on some foundational documents (e.g. Book of Homilies, Articles of Religion) and foundational reformers (e.g. Thomas Cranmer, Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger) involved with the English Reformation, and its Edwardian phase in particular. This edited volume not only offers a sustained focus on the often neglected mid-Tudor phase of the Reformation but explores new avenues of research on overlooked subjects such as the 45 Articles of Religion, John Ponet's Short Catechism, the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, the ministry of John Hooper, and the memory of Martin Bucer. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this fresh examination of these anchors of Anglicanism which were hotly contested both then, and now.

Review Quotes

"Here is a rich, well-written and intriguing account of aspects of the 16th Century Reformation of the Church of England. It includes the significance of such heroes as Bishops Hooper and Ponet, theologians Cranmer and Bullinger, and the important roles played by Catechisms, Homilies, Cathedrals, The Forty-Five Articles, and attempts at Church Discipline. The contributions are set in the context of the wider European Reformations, and of current diverse accounts of the English Reformation. It is full of fresh information and insights!" - Peter Adam, former Principal of Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia.

"This is a tremendously stimulating collection of essays by first-rate scholars examining the Anglican Reformers, their inspiring formularies, their enduring legacies, and the theological heartbeat of the Reformation under Edward VI, which rejoices in finding great treasure in some of the less well-trodden paths of recent scholarship and dives deeply into neglected but fascinating aspects of that crucial and formative period in church history." - Revd Dr Lee Gatiss, Director of Church Society, UK.

"There is an urgent need in our time to show, yet again and with new vigor, how rich and compelling is the actual faith, theology, and liturgy of the English Reformation. If heard well, the sophisticated, spiritually vibrant works of Bucer and Ponet, Cranmer and Hooper continue to hold the potential to transform these names from mere historical figures to what they are indeed--luminaries, who continue to illuminate faithful paths before us today. What a joy it is, then, to see their distinctive contributions given the weight and careful analysis exhibited in this book! Here is a book we've needed, where careful scholarship illustrates the authentic Reformed Anglicanism which is catholic but not Catholic, evangelical but not subjectivist, biblical but not biblicistic, tradition-rich but not mere traditionalism. This a collection of essays whose many virtues signal the longstanding and continuing critical role played by Moore College and the Latimer Trust in resourcing faithful Reformed Anglicanism, and Mark Earngey and Stephen Tong are to be thanked-congratulated, rather!-for this service to the Church near and far. My sincere hope is that this volume will serve not only as a corrective to misunderstandings and misrepresentations for those within and outside of the global Anglican fold, but will also provoke fresh, even courageous efforts to renew in our day the Church's embrace of the faith and life that distinguished our fathers in the Reformation. To do so is not merely to honor them, but to honor the same God at work in them who works among us." - Mark A. Garcia, President and Fellow of Scripture and Theology at Greystone Theological Institute, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary (PA, USA).