Ten Anglican Must Reads
This exercise comes out of a conversation with a parishioner who has doctoral level interest in theology and has read the Fathers, the great theologians of the middle ages, and even much contemporary...
View ArticleThe Anglican Way: Scripture First But Not Alone
Anglicanism is sometimes called the via media, the middle way, by which the person making the assertion usually means that Anglicanism is somewhere between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism as a...
View ArticleEither Anglicanism is the Truth or We Should Shut Up About It
Many Anglicans today draw their sense of Christian identity from a source other than Anglicanism. We see ourselves as Reformed, Calvinist, Lutheran, Papalist, or Pentecostal before we see ourselves as...
View ArticleAll May, None Must, Some Should
“As to confessing one’s sins to a priest, all may do so, none must do so, some should do so.” I was in seminary when I first heard that bit of folk wisdom meant to summarize the Anglican teaching on...
View ArticleAsk an Anglican: Can There Be a Church Without a Bishop?
Caleb writes: As a relatively new Anglican, I am still trying to navigate how our communion positions itself in relation to other communions. Among the “big three” (Rome, Orthodoxy, and Anglicanism),...
View ArticleSweet, Pleasant, and Unspeakable Comfort: The Anglican View of Predestination...
In the first post in this series, I established that the Calvinist view of the doctrine of election, sometimes referred to as double predestination, is not biblical. In this post, I will attempt to...
View ArticleThe Three Lens Telescope
I saw a bumper sticker once that said, “The Bible Says It, I Believe It, That Settles It.” This adequately describes the way that many modern western Christians understand and practice the doctrine of...
View ArticleThe Right and Wrong Way to Be a Pastor
Justification and how we are saved is still very much a live wire in Christian dialogue today, as I think we have proved on this blog several times over. Nevertheless, while there are very real...
View ArticleAsk an Anglican: The Reformers and the Divines
Wesley writes: I have seen and heard you make reference to the classical Anglican divines. Who are the Anglican divines? Who were they, what was their place in Anglican history, what contributions did...
View ArticleFight For Your Right to Parties
One of the developing facets of Anglicanism since the nineteenth century has been the introduction of church parties. Anglo-Catholicism, Evangelicalism and Liberalism all owe their existence as...
View ArticleAsk an Anglican: Creationism Redux
Michael writes: I watched your video Creationism and Talking Cats with great interest. I consider myself to be a creationist and have some questions about the Scriptural implications of belief in...
View ArticleEvolving Words and the Word of God
Among the many podcasts I listen to is the Slate program Lexicon Valley which is kind of a pop exploration of all things language related, think Radio Lab but with words instead of science. A recent...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: Rethinking the Anglo-Catholic Movement
When I was in seminary, one of my professors, a staunch British Calvinist, made the off-hand remark one day that Anglo-Catholicism could not be defended from an historical perspective. The point seemed...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: The Branch Theory
Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI meeting in 1966. “There’s a quaint Anglican concept of the universal Church known as the ‘branch theory,’” says Damian Thompson at the start of...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: The New Old High Churchmen
In Anglican circles today, the term “High Church” has become so thoroughly associated with Anglo-Catholicism that the two are assumed to be synonymous. Even in other Christian bodies, the phrases “High...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: Reading the Bible with Catholic Eyes
One of my literature professors when I was an undergrad once dramatically suggested that the lyrics of the Rolling Stones should inform how we read Chaucer. Even in my post-modernist, granola, college...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: Battling Newman’s Ghost
Last week, I had the privilege of visiting Nashotah House Seminary for the first time. While there, I was told that there is a coffeehouse on campus that has an old Anglo-Catholic joke worked into its...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: On Being a 39 Articles Catholic
The phrase “Prayer Book Catholic” has come to characterize those Anglo-Catholics who not only use the Book of Common Prayer but believe it to be the liturgy par excellence for Catholic worship and...
View ArticleSweet, Pleasant, and Unspeakable Comfort: The Anglican View of Predestination...
In the first post in this series, I established that the Calvinist view of the doctrine of election, sometimes referred to as double predestination, is not biblical. In this post, I will attempt to...
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