Church of England and Christian Antiquity - Quantin, Jean-Louis (, Professor of the History of Early Modern Scholarship, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris))

Jean-Louis Quantin shows how the appeal to Christian antiquity played a key role in the construction of a new confessional identity, 'Anglicanism', maintaining that theologians of the Church of England came to consider that their Church occupied a unique position, because it alone was faithful to the beliefs and practices of the Church Fathers.