pThe Anglican Communion currently finds itself at an inflection point as it weighs its future prospects in light of discordant social, political, ecclesiological, and theological commitments. In this intellectual and political history of Anglicanism, Gary Dorrien shows that the Communion's present challenges are the upshot of a centuries-old clash of Anglican identities. Tracing the narrative of Anglicanism from its ancient and medieval origins through the English Reformation and up to the last quarter of the twentieth century, Dorrien argues that Anglican Christianity is at once an iecumenicali project, residing at the halfway point between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, a itheologicali movement informed by a brand of idealism centered in the incarnational faith of Logos theology, and an iimperiali enterprise complicit in the racist sickness of Western civilization.ppA book long in the making, iAnglican Identitiesi offers a comprehensive, informative, and sobering account of the