Paul Avis discusses the distinctive character of Anglican theology - especially its ecclesiology - and of the worldwide Anglican Communion of churches. He expounds the historic Anglican tradition as background to current controversies and shows how Anglicanism is called, like all churches, to reflect the nature of the Church that we confess in the Creed to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic. The book comprises of two parts that give the reader a very clear view of the importance of the Anglican tradition's attempt to hold together aspects of the church that in other traditions are allowed to drift apart - as the Anglican church reveals itself to be catholic and reformed, episcopal and synodical, universal and local, biblical and reasonable, traditional and open to fresh insight. Avis combines here accessible scholarly analysis with constructive arguments that give Anglicans around the world fresh vision and new hope.