AHISTORY O FGLOBAL ANGLICANISM
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loginAnglicanism can be seen as irredeemably English. In this book Kevin Wardquestions that assumption. He explores the character of the African, Asian,Oceanic, Caribbean and Latin American churches which are now a majority inthe worldwide communion, and shows how they are decisively shaping what itmeans to be Anglican. While emphasising the importance of colonialism andneo-colonialism for explaining the globalisation of Anglicanism, Ward does notfocus predominantly on the churches of Britain and North America; nor does heprivilege the idea of Anglicanism as an ‘expansion of English Christianity’. At atime when Anglicanism faces the danger of dissolution Ward explores thehistorically deep roots of non-western forms of Anglicanism, and the importanceof the diversity and flexibility which has so far enabled Anglicanism to developcohesive yet multiform identities around the world.
