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The Gospel and the Anglican Tradition by Martin Davie

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...a four part study of what the gospel is and how it finds expression in the orthodox Anglican tradition. 

​ISBN: 978-1-9997224-4-9
504 pages | Paperback
RRP: £12.95 | $18.00

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The new book from the well regarded Anglican theologian Martin Davie is a four part study of what the gospel is and how it finds expression in the orthodox Anglican tradition.

• ​The first part looks at what we are taught about the meaning of the gospel by the Old and New Testaments.
• The second part considers how the very existence of the Church of England and worldwide Anglicanism bears witness to the gospel by testifying to God’s fulfilment of his promise of universal blessing.
• The third part explains how the gospel finds expression in the forms of Christian belief and practice contained in seven historical and contemporary documents from the Anglican Tradition, the Thirty Nine Articles, the Book of Common Prayer, the 1662 Ordinal, the First and Second books of Homilies, the Jerusalem Declaration and the new Catechism of the Anglican Church in North America.
• Finally, the fourth part contends that the calling of Anglicanism is not towards a comprehensiveness that simply learns to practice ‘good disagreement.’ It is rather to be faithful in proclaiming the gospel in its teaching and practice in line with the classic Anglican teaching looked at in this study. 

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Dr. Martin Davie has done a masterful job addressing a question at the heart of the once-every-500-year Reformation of the Church, including the Global Anglican Communion:  can we trust both the clarity and authority of the Bible?  Dr. Davie addresses this question by looking at what the Anglican tradition teaches about the nature of the Gospel and how the Anglican tradition gives expression to the Gospel in very way that Anglican churches are ordered.
From Genesis to Revelation, with rich documentation by chapter and verse, he demonstrates the continuity and clarity of the Gospel from Creation, sin, slavery to death, and the unfulfilled promises of redemption and restoration, to the fulfillment of those promises through Christ, the “suffering servant” and “the Son of Man” in the New Testament.  His demonstration of the “multi-dimensional Gospel” in this section alone is a valuable reminder for our discipleship: that the scope of the Gospel includes a vision for us to recapture and restore through Christ the “Edenic paradise” that God intended from creation.  It is a timely reminder of both the vertical and the horizontal dimension of Christian living.
 
It may be self-evident that the multi-cultural and multi-national nature of the Churches of the Anglican Communion bear witnesses to the promises of Pentecost in the book of Acts.  But with rich documentation from The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (1571), The Book of Common Prayer (1662) and its Ordinal, The First and Second Book of Homilies (1547 and 1571), and two contemporary Anglican texts that build on this Reformational Anglican heritage—the Jerusalem Declaration (2008) and the Catechism of the Anglican Church in North America, To be a Christian (2014), Davie demonstrates that the ties that bind Anglicans lie in their common affirmation of the divine inspiration, clarity and authority of the Bible. 
 
In short, Davie’s answer to questions about the inspiration, clarity of the Gospel, and its authority for all Anglicans presents the very dividing line between the renewal of Anglican Churches—or their secularization.
The Rev. Canon Phil Ashey, President and CEO American Anglican Council 

This is a substantial book which addresses fundamental issues of Anglican theology at a time when our historic moorings are under threat. It is to be applauded for its appeal to go ‘back to the future’ in engaging with our core foundational documents, and encouraging (indeed exemplary) to see theology being fashioned around an unalloyed commitment to Scripture. This is a rich theological ‘seam’ which will reward those who mine it.
John Dunnett, Chair of Evangelical Group on General Synod (EGGS)

If you want “theological fast food”, don’t read this book; if you want to be reminded of the depths of the gospel as revealed in scripture and taught by the Anglican Church from the earliest days through the Reformation until the modern day, Martin Davie has provided a way for you to mine these seams of gold. He draws together the great gospel themes of the Bible and then shows how they have been passed on down the generations. This is a book that will edify and challenge in equal measure not only by taking you to some of the great teaching documents of the past but by showing how they speak  into the contemporary challenges of the gospel. This book is for 21st Century global Anglicans who are not ashamed of the gospel or our forebears who bore witness to that gospel. Read it all at once or slowly savouring each part and pray the Lord would equip you to stand for that gospel now.
Keith Sinclair, Bishop of Birkenhead 

The sweep of Martin’s new book is breathtaking. It conveys an encyclopaedic knowledge of church history, biblical theology and the worldwide Anglican tradition. Anyone wondering why they should be part of the Anglican church will find a very comprehensive answer here. However, the book is much more than an apologia for Anglicanism. It is written to appeal for unity in the gospel. Martin affirms that order and truth belong together – but shows that both of these hinge, and have always hinged, on a clear understanding of the gospel. He takes the view that while diversity can be hugely beneficial, disagreement over the content of the gospel can never be. Given that this is his message, some readers might be surprised to find him quoting so freely from the GAFCON Jerusalem Declaration and an ACNA document. His purpose, however, is to show that these stand in the mainstream of Anglican theological tradition and are thus a great reforming influence for our own day.
Rt. Revd Rod Thomas, Bishop of Maidstone