How well do you know about the Anglican Church?

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Discover Your Knowledge of the Anglican Church

Test your understanding of the Anglican Church with our engaging quiz! From historical events to significant figures and practices, this quiz is designed to challenge your knowledge and expand your appreciation for this rich tradition.

Explore topics such as:

The English Reformation
Key theological concepts
Influential movements and figures

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This won't be true of the pre-Reformation Catholic Church:

Christian Life progress around a penitential cycle

Purgatory is the place where Divine Satisfaction is finally completed

The Christian is only saved through the imputed merits of Christ's death

Original Sin is only removed through baptism

"On this the main hinge of our religion turns" - whose life and work triggered the English Reformation?

King Henry the 8th

Thomas Cranmer

Martin Luther

John Calvin

If Cranmer were to walk into our 8 am SAC Service today, he may be most disturbed to see this:

Our singing of the liturgy

Our use of the Epiclesis (prayer of consecration)

Our Clergy Vestments

Giving of Wine During Communion

After the Book of Common Prayer, this source was most influential in christianising England in the 16th Century

Canticles

Catechisms

39 Articles

Daily Office

One of these emphases in the 16thC English Reformation will not be considered a strong Calvinist emphasis:

Visible and invisible Church of the elect

Godly discipline amongst clergy

The Supremacy of the State

Real Presence in Communion

This has been considered an early Anglican fore-runner of the idea of Small Groups:

Wesley's Class Meetings

Andrew Horneck's Religious Society

The Clapham Sect

The Moravian Bohemian Brethren

If John Henry Newman (in his latter years) has his way in our Diocese today, he would have:

Force very parish to adopt Anglo-Catholic liturgy and practices

Force Clergy to make the sign of the cross

Close down the Anglican Church and move all of us to the Roman Catholic Church

Change our Clergy Vestments

Which you think is the best answer? "Anglican moderation ("via media") is a determined policy of ..".

Finding a middle path between Rome and Geneva

Finding a way to keep everyone in the Church

Choosing a moderate position when they are disagreements

Separating the essentials of faith and order from adiaphora,

"Clergy discipline is too lax and the Church is too worldly." This is one of the major concerns that led to these renewals:

These are Renewals Movements which originated from within the Church of England

The Parish Communion Movement (Communion as central focus of Sunday Service) started in the

16th Century

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century

In the end, all my positions were empty. When you’re at the very height of power and you discover that you’re powerless, what do you do?” Who said this?

Bishop Leonard Wilson

Rev William Gomez

Bishop Chiu Ban It

Bishop Rennis Ponniah

As Clergy, we should be more rooted in our Anglican identity that we may:

Lead our parishes with greater confidence

Know our place within the wider Body fo Christ and know how we may contribute

Relate better with other Anglican Churches in our Communion

Be convicted of our uniqueness compared to other denominations

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