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During the last year of his life, Dean Urban T. Holmes, III devoted a major portion of his time, including a sabbatical leave, to writing this book. The subject was of utmost interest and concern to him and in numerous conversations between us as author and editor, his clear convictions and steadfast principles were carefully enunciated. The results of that reflection are presented in this his last book completed approximately three months before his untimely death on August 6, 1981. Had he lived we had plans well under way for successive volumes that would have examined anew the scope of Anglican theology and the broad historical traditions of doctrinal development.

The Episcopal Church, Anglicanism, and the “Via Media” were ever close to Terry Holmes’ care and concern as a person, a priest and an educator. It is important to remember his distress with some current trends and developments in the church. Terry Holmes was particularly concerned with and acutely aware of those trends that were oblivious to the rich and inviolate historical traditions of the church. With a clear eye and a sharply developed mind he was impatient with such careless ways and sought to recall the church and its leadership to the great truths of its heritage. In this book that heritage is clearly depicted and then directly related to contemporary life. All of us shall be enriched by this his last endeavor even as we are impoverished without his presence among us.

The proofing for this book was handled by Dean Holmes’ daughter, Jane Teresa Holmes. No changes have been made in the text as completed but not revised.

Theodore A. McConnell

Editorial Director

Morehouse-Barlow Co.