The Evangelical Anglican Identity Problem

by J. I. Packer

Year 1978
Type Other
Genre ecclesiology
Tradition Evangelical; Anglican
Original language English

For For an evangelical Anglican weighing whether to stay in a mixed church. Not for a reader outside Anglicanism.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 1 of 5 specialist interest
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 3 of 5 demanding

A short study for evangelical Anglicans unsure whether they could in conscience remain in the Church of England.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 2 of 5
Scriptural 2 of 5
Experiential 1 of 5
Sociological 4 of 5
Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

The Evangelical Anglican Identity Problem: An Analysis was published by Latimer House, Oxford, in 1978 as the first of the Latimer Studies (about forty pages). It was addressed, in the Latimer Trust's words, to Anglican evangelicals who were unsure whether it was warrantable to continue as Anglicans. N. T. Wright's Latimer Study of 1980 built on it, and Packer returned to the subject in A Kind of Noah's Ark? (1981). All three were reissued together by the Latimer Trust as Anglican Evangelical Identity: Yesterday and Today (2008), with new prefaces by both authors.

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