About the Movement
A return to the historic Anglican formularies, for the renewal of the Church in our generation.
The History
Anglicanism is not new, nor is it ours to invent. It is a tradition received — reformed, catholic, and confessing — passed down through centuries of faithful witness.
- 1st – 16th centuries
Origins & Reformation
England's Christian story begins with the insular Celtic Church — an independent expression of the Catholic faith with distinct liturgies and monastic life. After submitting to Latin practice at Whitby (664 AD), tensions with Rome persisted for centuries. Henry VIII's break with the Pope gave Cranmer latitude to reform, yet Bloody Mary violently restored Roman authority. It was Elizabeth I who finally settled the English Church as a Reformed Catholic body — a tradition that would shape the American colonies and the global Anglican Communion.
- 1534 – 1603
The English Reformation
From the Act of Supremacy through the Elizabethan Settlement: the recovery of the Gospel, the vernacular Scriptures, and a reformed catholic order under Cranmer, Jewel, and Hooker.
- 1604 – 1688
The Caroline Divines
Andrewes, Laud, Taylor, and Cosin shaped a deep sacramental, patristic, and prayerful Anglicanism — tested through civil war, exile, and the 1662 settlement of the Book of Common Prayer.
- 1689 – 1833
The Long Eighteenth Century
The witness of the Non-Jurors, the missionary expansion of the Church, and the evangelical revival under Wesley, Whitefield, and Simeon — faithful Anglicanism in a changing world.
- 1833 – 1900
Renewal & Confession
The Oxford Movement and the evangelical resurgence both contended for a confessing Anglicanism — Scriptural, sacramental, and ordered by the historic formularies.
- Today
The Renaissance
We stand within this stream and labour for its re-flowering: faithful clergy, common prayer, sound doctrine, and the recovery of what was always ours.
