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One thing I would add is that the Anglican inheritance of the Reformation isn’t merely retrieval. It’s not just saying, “all we’re doing is repeating the past by recovering pre-Medieval thought and practice.” It’s saying 1) the Reformation criticisms were correct, and 2) we are going to understand them within a particular framework (best articulated by Hooker, but not reducible to him). If the Reformed camps developed the concept of covenant to do that work, and the Lutherans developed the law-gospel distinction (or something else; don’t know enough to identity an analogous concept for them), the Anglicans develop Hooker’s concept of “Law”. The Reformation doctrines (justification by faith, sufficiency of Scripture, etc) are not abandoned but read through this lens and held together by it, and this is what gives Anglicanism its unique character. The feeling of tension arises when we unconsciously adopt another lens and try to fit Anglicanism in that framework. Doing so will only ever result in incoherence and dissatisfaction.

Finding Coherence in Anglicanism
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