Tag Archives: John Jewel

All 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 … Continue reading

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Either 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 Anglican, and we form our theology first and foremost from … Continue reading

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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 theology, but has never read much Anglican … Continue reading

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