In a nutshell, what is the Anglican Tradition?
"Sane, wise, ancient, modern, sound, and simple," as Martin Thornton calls it, the Anglican tradition is rooted in the witness of the Holy Scriptures and the Early Fathers, and is often described as a via media (middle way) between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Sometimes called "reformed Catholicism," Anglicanism gives equal weight to Word and Sacrament in its worship, and secures its polity in the Apostolic Succession of bishops. With Holy Scripture as its rule of faith, Anglicanism reserves a place for Reason and Tradition in its theological discourse, and has always made a strong association between what the Church believes and what the Church prays. Lex orandi, lex credendi - "the law of prayer is the law of belief" - well expresses the close correspondence in classical Anglicanism between doctrine and doxology.
(taken off of the Nashotah House Seminary website in 2013)
