Exploring Anglicanism: A Quiz on Its History and Beliefs Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

in Rose Macaulay's novel The Towers of Trebizond (1956) the English traveller Aunt Dot aims to emancipate the women of Turkey by converting them to Anglicanism and popularizing the bathing hat.

the 18th-century artist William Peters regretted the erotic works he had painted (example pictured) when he became an Anglican minister later in his life.

the Church of South India, a union of Anglican, Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches in South India, was inaugurated in 1947 at St. George's Cathedral (pictured) in Madras (now Chennai).

before St Wilfrid's Church was built, Anglicans in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, had to worship in the loft of a carpenter's workshop.

a cuttie-stool is the Lowland Scots name for a three legged stool that was thrown by Jenny Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk, in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637.

Beaumont House (pictured) was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral.

John Erskine Clarke produced the first Anglican Parish Magazine at Derby in 1859.

St George's Church, Little Thetford, is a 14th century Anglican church in the village of Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England, which was struck by lightning in 1886 and required extensive rebuilding.

English Anglican clergyman Dr William Dodd was nicknamed the "macaroni parson" as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, and in 1777 became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn for forgery.

Exploring Anglicanism: A Quiz on Its History and Beliefs

1 The current Archbishop of Canterbury as of 2003, ________ is the first appointed from outside the Church of England since the Reformation: he was formerly the Archbishop of Wales.

2 Whilst never actively endorsed by the Anglican Church, many Anglicans unofficially have adopted the Augustinian "________" doctrine.

3 The question often arises as to whether the Anglican Communion should be identified as a Protestant or ________ church, or perhaps as a distinct branch of Christianity altogether.

4 The twentieth century saw the Church of England developing new forms of evangelism such as the ________ in 1990 which was developed and propagated from Holy Trinity Brompton Church in London.

5 The group rapidly gained popularity amongst Anglican intellectuals, including Vera Brittain, ________ and former British political leader George Lansbury.

6 In the United Kingdom, the publication of Daily Prayer, the third volume of ________ was published in 2005.

7 In the nineteenth century, Anglican biblical scholarship began to assume a distinct character, represented by the so-called "Cambridge triumvirate" of Joseph Lightfoot, F. J. A. Hort, and ________.

8 Only baptised persons are eligible to receive communion,[35] although in many churches communion is restricted to those who have not only been baptised but also ________.

9 [3] There are, however, a small number of churches outside of the Anglican Communion which also consider themselves to be in the Anglican tradition, most notably those referred to as ________ churches.

10 The Evangelical Revival, influenced by such figures as ________ and Charles Simeon, re-emphasised the importance of justification through faith and the consequent importance of personal conversion.

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