10 Facts About Anglican doctrine

Anglican doctrine is the body of Christian teachings used to guide the religious and moral practices of Anglicans.

The universally agreed-upon foundations of Anglican doctrine are the three major creeds of the early ecumenical councils, the principles enshrined in the "Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral" and the dispersed authority of the four instruments of Communion of the Anglican Communion.

Foundations and streams of Anglican doctrine are interpreted through the lenses of various Christian movements which have gained wide acceptance among clergy and laity.

Anglican doctrine emerged from the interweaving of two main strands of Christian doctrine during the English Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The first strand comes from the Catholic Anglican doctrine taught by the established church in England in the early 16th century.

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Central to Anglican doctrine are the foundational documents of Christianity – all the books of the Old and New Testaments are accepted, but the books of the Apocrypha, while recommended as instructive by Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, are declared not "to establish any doctrine".

In doing so, Anglican doctrine theology is inclined towards a comprehensive consensus concerning the principles of the tradition and the relationship between the church and society.

Principle of lex orandi, lex credendi discloses a larger theme in the approach of Anglicanism to doctrine, namely, that doctrine is considered a lived experience; since in living it, the community comes to understand its character.

The method by which this is accomplished is by the distillation of doctrine through, and its subordination to a dominant Anglican ethos consisting of the maintenance of order through consensus, comprehensiveness, and contract; and a preference for pragmatism over speculation.

Finally, in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s Anglican doctrine churches wrestled with the issue of the remarriage of divorced persons, which was prohibited by dominical commandment.