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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)

"Tract 90" was John Henry Newman's rebuttal to the Thirty-Nine Articles, written before his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

1 See also

Religion in the United KingdomSt Paul's Cathedral The United Kingdom is traditionally a Christian country, with two of the Home nations having official faiths: Anglicanism, in the form of the Church of England, is the Established Church in England. The Queen is Supreme Governor of the
Book of HomiliesDuring the Reformation in England, Thomas Cranmer and others saw the need for local congregations to be taught Reformed theology and practice. Since many priests and deacons were still uneducated, semi-literate and catholic in their theology and practice,
Six ArticlesThe Six Articles of 1539 was an Act of Parliament which reaffirmed Henry VIII's general Catholicism. The articles reaffirmed Catholic doctrine on issues such as: # transubstantiation, #the reasonableness of withholding of the cup from the laity, # clerica

2 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

AnglicanismThe term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. Anglicans trace these traditions back to the first followers of Jesus, but acknowledge that schisms oc Christian texts

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