The Thirty-Nine Articles: their Place and Use Today

What defines the Church of England? Are the Thirty-nine Articles of any relevance today?

Anglicanism, according to Jim Packer, possesses “the truest, wisest and potentially richest heritage in all Christendom” with the Thirty-nine Articles at its heart. They catch the substance and spirit of biblical Christianity superbly well, and also provide an excellent model of how to confess the faith in a divided Christendom. In this Latimer Study, Packer aims to show how the sixteenth century Articles should be viewed in the twenty-first century, and how they can enrich the faith of Anglicans in general and of Anglican evangelicals in particular. He demonstrates why the Articles must once again be given a voice within the Church, not merely as an historical curiosity but an authoritative doctrinal statement. A thought-provoking appendix by Roger Beckwith offers seventeen Supplementary Articles, addressing theological issues which have come into prominence since the original Articles were composed.

This booklet, first published more than twenty years ago, remains much in demand and as timely as ever. It has proved one of the most popular and enduring Latimer Studies, and is now issued in a second edition.

Jim Packer is Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. Amongst his many best-selling books are Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God (1961), Knowing God (1973), Keep in Step with the Spirit (1984), and Among God’s Giants (1991).

Roger Beckwith was librarian and warden of Latimer House, Oxford for more than thirty years. His recent books include Elders in Every City (2003) and Calendar, Chronology and Worship (2005).

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The Thirty-Nine Articles: their Place and Use Today

J.I. Packer & Roger Beckwith

£4.00

0 946307 19 9/20 2

First Published 1984: 76 pages

Second edition 2006: 100 pages: ISBN 978 0 946307 56 2

Other booklets by the same author(s):

LS01 The Evangelical Anglican Identity Problem

LS02 The ASB Rite A Communion - A Way Forward

LS09 Confessing the Faith in the Church of England Today

LS10 A Kind of Noah’s Ark? The Anglican Commitment to Comprehensiveness

SAL1999 The Pilgrim's Principles: John Bunyan Revisited

SAL1996 An Anglican to Remember - William Perkins: Puritan Popularizer

LS22 How We Got Our Prayer Book

LS61 The Water and the Wine

LB01 The Church of England: What it is, and What it Stands For

LB02 Praying With Understanding: Explanations of Words and Passages in the Book of Common Prayer

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