Evangelical Anglican Way: Timeline 1375-2019 (original) (raw)

Historically speaking, the evangelical Anglican way is a movement the character of which can be discerned by following clues lying in the history of Christians, in this case mainly English ones, over a period of more than six hundred years. There were four movements that contributed to the evangelical Anglican way over the period: Protestant, Puritan, Pietist, and Pentecostal. Each one left its mark at the time although none succeeded in including all ‘evangelicals’, or indeed in excluding unwanted others. Consequently the outcome was never the desired unity of faith or practice to which they aspired, for evangelical Anglicans have never wanted to be regarded as ‘tribal’ even if that is how many observers have described them. Unlike evangelical-ism, the evangelical Anglican way from its grassroots beginnings in the fourteenth century to its fresh expressions in the new millennium was and is a path-finding ‘movement’. This timeline therefore outlines only the bones of a fuller story in which despite grave weaknesses, failures and sinfulness, there have been markers - defenders, explorers and writers for example - to signal the way for travelling evangelical Anglicans in the assurance that they are not unaccompanied, but have the faith of their fathers to encourage them.