Thirty-Nine Articles

The Thirty-Nine Articles are the defining statements of Anglican doctrine. They were issued by the Convocation of clergy of the Church of England in 1571 and are printed in the Book of Common Prayer and other Anglican prayer books. The Test Act of 1673 made adherence to the Thirty-Nine Articles a requirement for holding civil office in England.

The Articles highlight some of the major differences between Anglican and Catholic doctrine, including:

• the sufficiency of Scripture for salvation (Article 6)
• the recommendation of the Apocryphal books 'for example of life and instruction in manners ... [but not] to establish any doctrine' (Article 6)
• justification by faith, not works (Articles 11, 12, 13, 14)
• the rejection of the doctrine of Purgatory (Article 22)
• the identification of only two sacraments, Baptism and the Eucharist (Article 25)
• permitting the marriage of clergy (32)

See also Tract 90

Tract 90 is the rebuttal to The Thirty-Nine Articles by John Henry Cardinal Newman

(I will let you Wikipedia folks construct the body for this extension to "The Thirty-Nine Articles" because I do not want to break copyright laws, and as you say, you will butcher/edit our entries anyway. It is an important reference for the Anglican Church, the Anglo-Catholic Church, the Catholic Church, "tractarianism", etc. See the links below to construct the entry.)

Re Tract 90 http://www.newmanreader.org/works/viamedia/volume2/tract90/ Re Tract 90, etc. http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/ Re tractarianism http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/herb7.html Re John Henry Newman http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ22.HTM Re the Anglo-Catholic Church http://societies.anglican.org/anglocatholic/

External Links

http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/articles/articles.html

http://www.churchofengland.freeserve.co.uk/x39arts.htm

http://anglicansonline.org/basics/thirty-nine_articles.html The revised 1801 version adopted by the US Episcopalian church