Anglican Christianity
While Anglicanism can vary widely depending on the continent where it is expressed. Nevertheless, there are a general set of character traits that are common to it throughout the world.  The most common trait is that we Anglicans desire to live out the very faith that we have received from the historic Christian church of the apostles and church fathers in a way that engages people today. The following characteristics describe this global Anglican Christianity.

Evangelical, but not Protestant
Anglicanism is Evangelical because, like all Evangelicals, our main focus is on what the bible calls the salvation. Like all Evangelicals, we believe that this salvation of individuals as well as of the world comes about by the power of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Like all Evangelicals, we also place a high value on the power of biblical preaching, and on the centrality of the word of God for doctrine. In fact, we see the word of God as the canon and the ultimate authority over all that is necessary for faith and salvation.

Yet, unlike the Protestants, we do not look at the bible alone for instruction in the Christian life; we also look to the Holy tradition out of which the bible came.  For this reason, Anglican Evangelicalism does not protest against everything that occurred before the Protestant Reformation.  Unlike most Evangelicals we believe that the traditions of the church handed down to us by those who came before us is “Holy Tradition,” and therefore, we believe that in them we find the true interpretation and application of the Evangelical faith.

Catholic, but not Roman
Anglicanism is also Catholic because, like all Catholics, we are Trinitarian, Episcopal, Sacramental, and Liturgical.  The episcopacy of our clergy is of apostolic succession. Our sacramental practices involve signs, gestures, vestments, bells, art, incense, and water, bread and wine. Like all catholics, our worship practices involve the same ceremonies and music of the ancient church. Enter an Anglican church and there will be little doubt that you are in a Catholic Church.

However, unlike Roman Catholicism, Anglican Catholicism holds to that which has been believed by all, in all places, at all times, and therefore rejects the many of the innovations that are present in today's Roman Catholic Church. Unlike the Roman church we reject the required celibacy of clergy, indulgences, purgatory, the planks of salvation, and many other practices. We reject them for two reasons; first, these innovations are of late entrance into Holy Tradition, and second, because they do not pass the canonical test of scripture. 

Orthodox, but not Eastern
Anglicanism also holds to the Holy Orthodox faith, because like the Eastern Orthodox, we see the one faith that existed in the first 1000 years of the church as containing the fullness of apostolic truth. Like all Orthodox, we believe that the doctrine, or dogma of the faith as expounded in the documents produced by the seven ecumenical councils.  Like all Orthodox we affirm that it is in these seven councils that the church has spoken with one voice, and therefore, they alone contain the teachings that can be considered undisputed.

Nevertheless, unlike the Eastern Orthodox, we are distinctly western.  While we believe the same essential truths and doctrine as the Eastern Orthodox, unlike the east we express these truths by a western way. We use a western liturgy, western sacred art, western vestments, western music, and a western calendar. We believe that Anglicanism at its finest is "Western Orthodoxy." 

Anglican Christianity is Evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox.