The Faith once for all delivered Book

From the blurb, I expected this short book to be about what Anglicans believe and how Anglicanism differs from, say, Catholicism, Presbyterianism, or Calvinism. Instead this is almost entirely a history book, full of dates and names of important people throughout Anglican history. I have no doubt that it was comprehensive, but it wasn't very interesting and wasn't what it claimed to be.

The book also assumes a high level of knowledge before reading, which seems contrary to the spirit of a 'very short introduction.' An example sentence: 'In 1870, the mixed chalice, wafers, the old eucharistic vestments of chasubles and tunicles were declared legal, but this was later overturned on appeal in 1871.' There is never an explanation of what chasubles or tunicles are. Likewise with concepts like 'Sacerdotalism' or 'Barthianism' (a couple of words I highlighted early in the book to look up later, before realising that most of the book was full of unexplained words I would have to look up later).

I don't know who the target audience for the book was, but I wasn't it.