At its core, Anglican faith holds the same central Christian beliefs shared across the wider Church: the Trinity, the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the authority of Scripture, as confessed in the historic Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed.
Anglican doctrine was historically defined more precisely in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (1571), which remain printed in the Book of Common Prayer and still shape Anglican theology today, even though the way they are used varies from province to province.
In 1888, the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops summarised what it saw as the essential basis of Anglican identity in the Lambeth Quadrilateral: the Holy Scriptures as the rule and ultimate standard of faith, the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, the two sacraments instituted by Christ (Baptism and the Eucharist), and the historic Episcopate (the order of bishops).