Anglican Identities

A series of studies by the Archbishop of Canterbury that are collected from lectures given over the last ten years on a variety of Anglican figures: William Tyndale, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, B.F. Westcott, Michael Ramsey and John A.T. Robinson. In his introduction, Williams suggests that the theologians covered in this volume share 'a theologically informed and spiritually sustained patience'. The essays are all engaging and accessible to the general reader, and the archbishop's reflections on 'Honest to God and the 1960s' are of particular interest as he surveys spiritual currents from the 1950s onwards and shows the emergence of new patterns since the publication of Robinson's book and the constant need for the kind of critical stance that it adopts towards the secular world.