Reformed and Catholic

Synopsis:A respected lecturer and author, the Rev. Dr. Peter Toon (1939-2009) was born in Yorkshire, England, and graduated from Kings College, University of London. Ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1973, he taught theology in both England and America, and was a visiting professor and guest lecturer at a variety of seminaries and universities in Asia, Europe, and Australia. Through his engagement in debates about all matters Anglican, he became the foremost exponent of the Anglican Way, a path both Reformed and Catholic. A self-identified evangelical, he brought an evangelical fervor to his love of the church and the gospel, and he has influenced a generation of priests around the world. This volume of essays, collected in his honor, furthers the work that Dr. Toon started, defending the continuing importance of the theology of the English Reformation and Anglican worship. Essays included discuss Thomas Cranmer, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and the legacy of Dom Gregory Dix. The authors include Roger Beckwith, Bryan Spinks, Rudolph Heinze, Joan Lockwood ODonovan, Gillis Harp, Graham Eglington, and Ian Robinson.Endorsements:Toons contribution to the understanding of Anglicanism is hard to exaggerate . . . His courageous and scholarly work evoked much unpopularity for several decades, but it now enjoys deserved and widely acknowledged acceptance. His writings in the last days, while he was struggling with a debilitating disease, have been an indelible encouragement to many. I count myself as one deeply grateful, not only for his scholarly contributions, but his inspiring faith.--C. FitzSimons Allison, 12th Bishop of the Diocese of South CarolinaAnglicanism is not another flavor of liberal Protestantism, nor merely a via media between Protestantism and Catholicism, or an open-ended range of beliefs from Puritanism to Anglo-Catholicism. The essays in this book disclose confessional Anglicanism growing out of conserva