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Article: Anglo-Catholicism: A Study in Religious Ambiguity
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- Anglican and Episcopal History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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Anglo-Catholicism: A Study in Religious Ambiguity. By W. S. F. Pickering. Revised edition. (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2008, Pp xvi, 284. $42.50.)
W. S. F. Pickering's Anglo-Catholicism was first published in 1989. The "ambiguity" to which the subtitle refers is the phenomenon of a proCatholic movement within a church which, as the Church of England and in separation from the Roman Catholic Church from the sixteenth century onwards, could give birth to what Wilfred L. Knox has called the Catholic Movement in the Church of England. How could a tradition so clearly involved in the developments of the Reformation generate a movement whose leaders often appealed to aspects of the ...