Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article III
Article III Of the going down of Christ into Hell. As Christ died for us, and was buried; so also it is to be believed that He went down into Hell. De descensu Christi ad Inferos. QUEMADMODUM Christus pro nobis mortuus est, et sepultus, ita est etiam credendus ad inferos descendisse. TO the understanding of…
“I quarrel not the making of images”
the theology and practice of images in the Jacobean and Caroline Church of England “And that Images are things indifferent of themselves, is granted in the Homilies which are against the very Peril of Idolatry.”[1] The words are those of Archbishop Laud at his trial, when confronted with charges of ‘Popish idolatry’. Such charges…
Book Release: Clara’s Bees by Catharine Savage Brosman
We are excited to announce the release of Catharine Savage Brosman’s new collection of poems, Clara’s Bees, on our literary imprint, Little Gidding Press. In this expansive collection of poems, Catharine Savage Brosman surveys life in contemporary New York, wartime France, and medieval Europe. Along with imaginative scope, these poems attend to the particulars of…
Book Review: “As It Is in Heaven”
As It Is in Heaven: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Introduction to the Traditional Church and Her Worship. By Fr. Paul A.F. Castellano. Tucson, AZ: Wheatmark, 2021. 316 pp. $19.95 (paper). As It Is in Heaven is a tour de force on why we should worship liturgically. I am a huge fan of this book…
Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article II
Article II Of the Word or Son of God which was made very Man. THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal GOD, and of one substance with the Father, took man’s nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance: so…
Retro Book Review: The Returns of Love, Part I
In May 1971, the American Psychiatric Association was bracing for trouble. They were preparing to hold their annual convention in Washington, D. C. The previous year’s convention in San Francisco had been disrupted by a militant band of gay activists. Strategically planting themselves in breakout sessions on sexuality, the protestors had successfully turned the academic…
Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article I (Part 2)
Section II. — Scriptural Proof HAVING thus far given a history of the doctrine contained in this Article, I proceed to the proof from Scripture. So much of the subject may seem to belong to natural religion that we might easily be tempted to begin with proofs from reason alone. It appears to me, however,…
Further Thoughts on the Elizabethan Settlement
Being a bishop and a parish clergyman, I basically do not have that much time for systematic research, so many of the things that I find out come to me accidentally. For example, earlier this week I was looking for something on the Württemberg Confession and Google produced an article entitled “Lutheran Influences on the…
J. C. Ryle on What Evangelical Religion Is (Part 3)
Reading further in Ryle’s Knots Untied, here is another thought from Ryle on what evangelical religion is: ( c ) The third leading feature of Evangelical Religion is the paramount importance it attaches to the work and office of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the nature of the salvation which He has wrought out for man. Its…
An Anglican Pastoral Theology of Contraception
MY STORY WITH NFP I read Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae three weeks before I got married. I was moved to tears by this solemn hymn to Holy Matrimony, and it solidified my growing conviction of the moral need to reject the use of artificial contraception. The logic was crystal clear and dazzling…