The Heritage of Anglican Theology

Published by Crossway in 2021, after Packer's death, and described by the publisher as the last book he wrote. Packer argues that "authentic Anglicanism" is biblical, liturgical, evangelical, pastoral, episcopal, national and ecumenical, likening Anglicanism to a river with a main current and several offshoot streams. Its chapters survey the English Reformation, Puritan theology, Richard Hooker, the Caroline divines, rational divinity, revival theology, the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism, nineteenth-century Broad Church theology, Anglican modernism and early twentieth-century theology, ending with concluding thoughts and an afterword on Anglican doctrine. From that survey Packer sets out a vision for the church's future grounded in Scripture, mission and the historic creeds.