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• Start with Simply Anglican, by Winfield Bevins. It pairs nicely with The Anglican Way: A Guidebook, by Thomas McKenzie.
• Buy a Book of Common Prayer (“BCP.” Click here to read our Rookie Anglican Guide to the BCP.)
  • 1979 (Episcopal, most widely used in the USA)
  • 1928 (Episcopal, traditional language)
  • The “Classic” BCPs (1549, 1559, 1662)
  • 2019 (ACNA; Click here to read our Rookie Anglican Guide to the BCP 2019)
• To learn more about the BCP, read:
  • The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography, by Alan Jacobs
  • The Prayer Book Through the Ages, by William Sydnor (A history of the 1979 BCP.)
• For a classic and fairly comprehensive reference work, read The Study of Anglicanism, by Sykes, Booty, and Knight, eds. There’s also The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies, but it’s quite expensive.
• For a classic/standard history of the Church of England, read A History of the Church in England, by J.R.H. Moorman.
• For an insider’s theological account of Anglicanism and its history, read Anglican Theology, by Mark Chapman. Or read Chapman’s briefer book, Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction.
• For an outsider’s (Roman Catholic) theological account of Anglicanism, read The Panther and the Hind: A Theological History of Anglicanism, by Aidan Nichols, O.P.

• Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Allure of Liturgy for a New Generation, by Winfield Bevins.
• Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshipping Community, by Simon Chan.
• Bible and the Liturgy, by Jean Daniélou.
• The Shape of the Liturgy, by Dom Gregory Dix.
• The Liturgy Explained: New Edition , by James W. Farwell.
• Introduction to Christian Liturgy, by Frank C. Senn.
• Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church, by Robert Webber.

• The Private Prayers of Lancelot Andrewes.
• Selected Writings, by Lancelot Andrewes.
• The Faith We Confess: An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles, by Gerald Bray
• Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, by Richard Hooker.
• Christ, the Christian and the Church: A Study of the Incarnation and Its Consequences, by E.L. Mascall.
• An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, by John Henry Newman.
• Parochial and Plain Sermons, by John Henry Newman.
• Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love, by Ashley Null.
• The Thirty-Nine Articles: Their Place and Use Today, by J.I. Packer
• The Catholic Religion: A Manual of Instruction for Members of the Anglican Church, by Vernon Stanley.
• English Spirituality : An Outline of Ascetical Theology according to the English Pastoral Tradition, by Martin Thornton.

• The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580, by Eamon Duffy.
• English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, by C.S. Lewis.
• A Little History of the English Country Church, by Roy Strong.

• A Word From The Lord, the teaching ministry of Archbishop Foley Beach
• The Bible Project
• Our Anglican Heritage, Second Edition: Can an Ancient Church be a Church of the Future?, by John W. Howe.
• The Accidental Anglican: The Surprising Appeal of the Liturgical Church, by Todd Hunter.
• Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, by Tish Harrison Warren.
• The Presence Project: 12 Tools for Learning to Rest in God, by Summer Joy Gross.
• The Slow Word Movement: A Weekly Lectio Divina Video Subscription, by Summer Joy Gross.

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