ABSTRACT
While not developing a modern ecclesiology of Communion, the Caroline Divines affirmed an inner aspect to membership of the Church, complementing its outward reality. They had a strong sense of the apostolicity and catholicity of the Church, arguing that these had been preserved supremely in the English church, but going a long way towards recognising the Catholic Church as a true Church. Their strong account of Communion has much to contribute both to ecumenism and to modern Anglican ecclesiology.
