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Sweet, Pleasant, and Unspeakable Comfort: The Anglican View of Predestination (Part II)

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 establish that this view is also … Continue reading

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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

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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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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

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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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