The Doctrine of the Church in Anglican Theology 1547-1603 by H. F. Woodhouse, D.D. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1954 - published for the Church Historical Society. ISBN: none - pre-ISBN. A scarce study of ecclesiology in the formative Edwardian and Elizabethan decades - the marks of the true church, ministry and episcopacy, the relation of church and state, and the sacraments - drawn from Cranmer, Jewel, Whitgift, Hooker, and the lesser divines; a standard reference for the Reformation settlement and still regularly cited.

Provenance: from the personal library of the historian William Brown Patterson - scholar of the English Reformation and author of King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge) and William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England (Oxford) - with his bookplate on the front pastedown; one of several books from his library offered here.

Condition: GOOD. Hardcover in dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, in the original cream dust jacket, unclipped and housed in a removable mylar protector. Binding tight and square; cloth clean. Text clean and unmarked. The jacket shows its age: soiled and toned, with chipping and closed tears at the spine ends and along the edges. Patterson's bookplate as noted.

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