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Ask an Anglican: When the Church is no Longer the Church
Two questions today that are interrelated. Cadog writes: In a prior post, you offered assurances that staying in the Episcopal Church was right, even though there are some serious and disturbing decisions and trends in recent years. I can accept … Continue reading
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Tagged 39 Articles, Anglican Church in North America, Anglo-Catholicism, Apostles' Creed, Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral, Doctrine, Ecclesiology, Ecumenical, Episcopacy, Evangelicalism, Lambeth Conference, Liberalism, Morality, Sacraments, The 1979 BCP, The Bible, The Episcopal Church, The Nicene Creed, The Reformed Episcopal Church, The Trinity, Unity, William Reed Huntington
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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: The 39 Articles
Samuel writes: To what extent do the 39 articles shape modern Anglicanism? From my Church of England perspective it seems to be bordering on disingenuity to quote from them in an unqualified manner; without, for example, mentioning their almost total … Continue reading
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Tagged 39 Articles, Anglo-Catholicism, Calvinism, Confessionalism, Doctrine, Ecumenical, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Elizabethan Settlement, Evangelicalism, Henry VIII, John Bramhall, Liberalism, Liturgy, Queen Mary, Roman Catholicism, Sacraments, The 1559 BCP, The 1979 BCP, The Episcopal Church, Tracts for the Times
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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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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
Posted in Dearly Beloved: An Anglican Theology of Marriage
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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When God Must Impress Himself
Over at the excellent blog “An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy,” Peter Ould and I have been going back and forth on the topic of election. Peter takes a strict Calvinist position, arguing for total depravity and a limited … Continue reading
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Tagged 39 Articles, Calvinism, Ecclesiology, Ecumenical, Election, Miscellaneous, Predestination, Salvation, Total Depravity
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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
The Ordinariate and Salvation
There’s been much buzz about the new Anglican Ordinariate in recent weeks, both from Anglicans and from Roman Catholics. One of the more interesting parts of this conversation, at least from the standpoint of conciliar ecclesiology, is the way in … Continue reading
