What Makes Us Episcopalians?

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John E. Booty. What Makes Us Episcopalians?

What. Makes Us Episcopalians?

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Roots in England; Testing in America

Chapter 2. Scripture Unfolds. God's Sacred Drama

Chapter 3. Tradition Illuminates the Mind. of the Church

Chapter 4. Faith Needs Reason. and Reason Needs Grace

Chapter 5. Active Charity Bolsters Faith

Chapter 6. Knowing and Doing the Truth

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John E. Booty

1. Roots in England; Testing in America

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Queen Elizabeth I let her Puritan subjects know she did not agree with them, and Richard Hooker, sixteenth century theologian, supported her with reasonable arguments for toleration. The Anglican roots of reformation and Christian humanism were nourished by the earliest Christian tradition as transmitted through the medieval Church but cleansed of superstition and corruption.

These roots were nourished, too, by the experience of the reformers and of those for whom they labored. The sixteenth century was an age of great personal peril, a time of plagues and warfare, for which the dance of death was a chilling symbol. It was also an age of great social distress, inflation out of control, agriculture and husbandry undergoing costly changes, and the poor increasing in number, in suffering, and in restlessness.

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