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We have with us Gerald Bray.

He is research professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School at

Samford University. He's the author of numerous things, numerous books including preaching the

word with John Chrysostrom. God has spoken and doing theology with the reformers. He has a new book

out. It is entitled Anglicanism, a reformed

Catholic tradition. Professor Bray, thank you for joining us. Thank you very much for having me.

Okay, well, let's jump right into the book, as we always do on this show. You locate the actual

origin of the, or the most important origin, I should say, of the Anglican

church in the 1830s. What was going on then? Yeah, that's a very good question. Not the Anglican

church, it depends how you phrase that. Right. I said the word Anglicanism, the concept of Anglicanism, really got stuck in at that time.

Of course, the church itself had existed for a long time before that.

Apparently, the origin came from France of all places, because in the Catholic Church in France,

before the revolution, there was a strong movement

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