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Love's Redeeming Work is a big anthology of Anglican writings, with 250+ entries that span from the 16th during the 20th centuries. the choices reveal the Anglican guiding principle that diverse strands of spirituality could be woven jointly in an artistic rigidity that reinforces the final power of the church. The entries mirror a large spectrum of literary genres (poetry, devotional essays, letters, reflections at the Scriptures, etc.), written via women and men from around the globe.
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No one is claiming or should claim that the strengths of the classical Anglican idiom for exploring and recognizing holiness are unique to Anglicanism; only that Anglicanism's evolution and position have allowed it to develop and to nurture these strengths in ways in principle available to other cultures and other confessions. Anglicanism shares with Orthodoxy a legacy of literature impossible to divide up between 'theology' and 'spirituality'. It shares with classical European Protestantism a concern with fallibility and self—deceit.
Almighty God tempteth to our commodities, to do us good withal; the devil tempteth to our everlasting destruction. God tempteth us for exercise' sake, that we should not be slothful; therefore he proveth us diversely. ' When we rise up in a morning, or whatsoever we do, when we feel the devil busy about us, we should call upon God. The diligence of the devil should make us watchful, when we consider with what earnest mind he applieth his business: for he sleepeth not, he slumbereth not; he mindeth his own business, he is careful, and hath mind of his matters.
Bradford is clearly unhappy, for example, with some attitudes to the Eucharist prevalent in extreme Reformed circles. With Elizabeth, we see emerging a sharp political disjunction between those who thought reformation had gone far enough and those who pressed for more drastic measures (especially those who looked for a different system of church government, by presbyters only). The reign of James I saw a continuation of government attacks on the radicals, with some taking refuge in the new territories across the Atlantic; and, while the early years of Charles I witnessed some of the most impressive consolidation of a theological and spiritual identity for the Reformed Church in England, harsh policies against dissidents pushed the situation towards more and more open confrontation.