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The Church and its learning

Despite being the product of a national church asserting its national identity (and its submission to the secular power of the realm), in the period in which the Church of England was learning to define itself as opposed to its mother church on the continent, it is significant that it was an intellectual movement which had the greatest influence. The Church of England was founded as a church of learning: often it has been able to remember that legacy.



This is part of a series of posts. Others in the series are:—
  1. Anglican Roots / Anglican Routes
  2. Anglican Roots : Four justifications for the exercise
  3. Anglican Roots : 664 The Synod of Whitby
  4. Anglican Roots : 1215 Magna Carta
  5. Anglican Roots : Movement 1 / The Benedictines
  6. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 1
  7. Anglican Roots : The Reformation
  8. Anglican Roots : 1534 Henry, Supreme Head
  9. Anglican Roots : 1593 Richard Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity
  10. Anglican Roots : Movement 2
  11. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 2
  12. Anglican Roots : 1604 The Hampton Court Conference
  13. Anglican Roots : 1662 The Act of Uniformity and the Book of Common Prayer
  14. Anglican Roots : Movement 3
  15. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 3
  16. Anglican Roots : 1784 Samuel Seabury consecrated first American bishop
  17. Anglican Roots : 1888 The Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral
  18. Anglican Roots : Movement 4
  19. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 4

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