ANGLICAN HERITAGE: Theology and Spirituality by H. R. McAdoo. The Canterbury Press, 1991, 120 pp. (BX5955.M113).

Dr. Henry McAdoo, formerly Archbishop of Dublin, and Primate of Ireland. has been known for his scholarship. ANGLICAN HERITAGE was selected for study in the TEAC (Theological Education for the Anglican Communion) program sponsored by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Over two dozen volumes in this program for bishops, priests, deacons and laity, are in the Renouf-Nelson Library.

McAdoo states the purpose of this book as enabling us to hear a voice from our own past. The process of ongoing corporate recollection is essential to our self-understanding. He says, "Two years ago a distinguished theologian wrote to me that by neglecting or ignoring our Anglican heritage 'our Church seems to be behaving like some poor person suffering total loss of memory'." (P. vii).

Episcopalians would do well to be reminded of their roots, of the "middle way - via media," and listen to Archbishop McAdoo and Archbishop William Temple, whom the author references. Temple saw the Anglican family as able to combine the traditional Faith and Order of the Catholic Church with the immediacy of approach to God through Christ to which Evangelical Churches especially bear witness." (P.17).

In the NOW, the Episcopal Church and other mainline churches are losing members. In ANGLICAN HERITAGE: Theology and Spirituality, a voice from our past speaks. This voice offers us a more certain future.