This book, in the Traditions of Christian Spirituality series, aims to be an introduction to Anglican spirituality. It is primarily historical in its approach and is written in a style which is fluent and accessible. On the whole, it presents a clear if relatively uncritical account of the writings of the classics of the Anglican – or, more usually, the English – tradition from across the centuries. However, the approach, which is not chronological but which makes use of the rather hackneyed Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Holiness division as though each were relatively independent of the other, means that there is much overlap between chapters. Characters keep jumping up as conversation partners in a rather confusing dialogue with the author whose own autobiographical journey from Evangelicalism to a broader Anglicanism features strongly. More important, there is remarkably little on the political and polemical dimension of spirituality – the Caroline divines were, after all, not simply devotional writers. As the title implies, the author is eirenic in his approach, and this book goes some way in arguing for the virtues of toleration and comprehensiveness (which is represented in an extraordinary diagram at p. 131). Since these are virtues sadly lacking in some contemporary expressions of Anglicanism from across the world, this book might be important. My feeling is that it is written principally for those Anglican Evangelicals who are ignorant of the spiritual resources and breadth of their own Anglican tradition. But it has little to offer the critical historian.