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On The Eucharist: Spiritual Food Is Real Food
One of the more remarkable features of the classic Anglican Eucharistic rite, often omitted from modern prayer books, is the Exhortation that the priest gives to encourage people to receive the sacrament in a worthy manner. The Exhortation comes just … Continue reading
Ask an Anglican: Choosing the One True Church
A challenging question from Robert: As a former Roman Catholic who has for some decades been an Episcopalian (though unhappy with the recent theological drift of the TEC), I am painfully aware of myself as a seeker who of necessity … Continue reading
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Tagged church shopping, Conciliarity, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecumenical, Roman Catholicism, The Bible, Unity
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Ask 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), we’re peculiar in that, while we maintain an historic … Continue reading
The Anglican Way: Magisterial Worship
One of the common critiques of Western Christians, of either the Roman Catholic or the Protestant variety, is that we are obsessed with systematizing our faith. We develop catechisms, confessions, and treatises ad nauseum in our quest to define our … Continue reading
Ask an Anglican: The Filioque
I’m using a comment by Eugene in a previous thread to inaugurate a new regular series here that I’m calling Ask an Anglican. I get a lot of questions about what Anglicans believe about various things, especially coming from those who … Continue reading
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Tagged 39 Articles, Anglican Consultative Council, Conciliarity, Doctrine, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecclesiology, Ecumenical, Ecumenical Councils, Enriching Our Worship, Lambeth Conference, Liturgy, Oriental Orthodoxy, The Episcopal Church, The Filioque, The Nicene Creed, The Primates, The Trinity, William Sherlock
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The 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 tradition within the larger world of Christianity. In Anglican apologetics, … Continue reading
Dearly Beloved: An Anglican Theology of Marriage (Part IV)
It is beyond the scope of this series to do a comprehensive analysis of the theology of marriage in all Christian traditions. Nevertheless, having shown that the classical Anglican theology of marriage is biblical, one would expect to see resonance … Continue reading
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Tagged 39 Articles, Anglo-Catholicism, ARCIC, Charles Gore, Contraception, Divorce, Doctrine, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecumenical, Lambeth Conference, Lancelot Andrewes, Liturgy, Lutheranism, Marriage, Martin Luther, Roman Catholicism, Sacraments, Saint John Chrysostom, Sex, Tertullian, The 1549 BCP, The 1662 BCP, The Ten Commandments, Thomas Cranmer
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A Church Shaped Salvation
Though it’s unpopular to say, it is nevertheless true that there is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church. The difficulty, of course, is unpacking what that means. Fr. Stephen Freeman, an Orthodox priest who was an Anglican once upon … Continue reading
But how are we saved?
The undivided Church insisted that we are saved through Jesus Christ, but said little definitively about how. It is strange that, given the fierce debates and divisions of the early Church, the Fathers chose not to focus their attention on … Continue reading
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