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Faith Alone and the Sacraments
Very glad to finally have a new video up. This one answers a question from a Baptist about how Anglicans can believe that we are saved by faith alone if we believe that we receive God’s saving grace through the … Continue reading
Posted in Ask an Anglican, Videos
Tagged 39 Articles, Baptism, Baptist, Eucharist, Evangelicalism, Faith, Grace, Olivia Newton John, Sacraments, Salvation, The Catechism
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Counting Sacraments
Jordan at The Hackney Hub has written a provocative piece asserting that the notion of seven sacraments is not Anglican. The Hackney Hub is a great blog, exploring many of the same themes of classical Anglicanism that you’ll find here, … Continue reading
Ask an Anglican: Who May Take Communion
This is a question that came in a few months ago but that is perhaps most apt to answer now, given that the General Convention of the Episcopal Church will be taking up the question of Communion without Baptism this … Continue reading
Posted in Ask an Anglican, On The Eucharist
Tagged Baptism, Church of England, Communion without Baptism, Confirmation, Doctrine, Early Church Fathers, Eucharist, Heresy, John Peckam, Sacraments, The 1549 BCP, The 1552 BCP, The 1559 BCP, The 1662 BCP, The 1979 BCP, The Catechism, The Episcopal Church
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Anglican Shorts: What is an Anglican?
Check out the first in a new series of short videos on the basics of Anglicanism. These videos are made to be seen both by Anglicans and by those who want to know more about what classical Anglicanism is, so … Continue reading
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Tagged 39 Articles, Baptism, Episcopacy, Eucharist, Justification, Liturgy, Sacraments, The 1662 BCP, The Bible, The Catechism, Unity
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Ask an Anglican: What the Sacraments are For
Scripture on Baptism: Matthew 28:16-20 Mark 16:14-16 John 3:1-21 Romans 6 Titus 3:4-7 1 Peter 3:17-22 (noting especially verse 21) Additionally, there are a number of places in Acts where we see entire households, including infants, being baptized – Acts … Continue reading
Posted in Ask an Anglican, Videos
Tagged Baptism, Baptist, Doctrine, Eucharist, Evangelicalism, Justification, Sacraments, Salvation, The Bible, The Catechism
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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
Posted in Sweet, Pleasant, and Unspeakable Comfort: The Anglican View of Predestination
Tagged 39 Articles, Calvinism, Doctrine, Election, English Civil War, George Bull, Henry Hammond, Peter Heylyn, Predestination, Richard Field, Richard Hooker, Richard Montague, Salvation, The Catechism, William Beveridge
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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 I)
Introduction What is marriage? Where does it come from? Does it have a fixed shape and contours or is it more fluid and evolving? These questions lie deep in the background of discussions in the Church about sexuality, blessing, and … 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
Tagged 39 Articles, Alister McGrath, Charles Chapman Grafton, Doctrine, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecclesiology, FitzSimons Allison, John Henry Newman, John Wesley, Justification, Michael Ramsey, Nicene Creed, Paul Zahl, Sacraments, Salvation, Sanctification, The Catechism, Theosis, Tracts for the Times
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Is the Bible a Moral Standard?
There are a fair number of Anglicans in the churches of the west who argue that Anglicans need not turn to the Bible for the final word on moral questions. Fr. Tobias Haller, for instance, has recently argued that the … Continue reading
