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This journal upholds classical Anglican theology, rooted in Scripture, the 39 Articles, and the Book of Common Prayer. Committed to social, moral, and theological orthodoxy, we explore our rich tradition to strengthen Christ’s Church with timeless wisdom, piety, and truth.
Church Doctrine, Bible Truth – Preface
In the following treatise, I have first endeavoured to set forth what God, in His Holy Word, teaches us respecting Church principles, and then I have turned to the Prayer-book, in order to ascertain how far it reflects the teaching of the Scriptures. This book is not intended to be a treatise on the Prayer-book,…
Part I: Have Christians Forgotten How to See a Mysterious World?
The Church, the Soul, and the Return of the Unseen Walk into almost any bookstore today, and you will find shelves devoted to witchcraft, angels, ghosts, ancient spiritual practices, and various forms of mysticism. Podcasts discussing near-death experiences routinely receive millions of views. AI researchers now speak openly about consciousness, personal identity, and the possibility…
Jesus Christ is the Brightness of our Souls: What is a Firm Purpose of Amendment?
I recently wrote an article about a C4SO church that admitted “Side A Christians”—Christians who are openly affirming and/or have no intention of repenting of a same-sex relationship they are in, as they disagree with the stance of the Church—to the Lord’s Table. A Bishop contacted me and exhorted me that I should have sourced…
Tradition, Continuity, and the Limits of Orthodox Catholicity
Eastern Orthodoxy makes claims that sound like classical Christianity. The Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. The Faith was delivered once for all to the saints. Doctrine does not develop, not in the sense that later generations get to invent new dogmas anyway. The Church receives what it has been given and lives more…
Real Presence and the Anglican Settlement: A Response to Ben Jefferies
Introduction: At the outset of this essay, I wish to make my respect for Rev. Ben Jefferies and his scholarship abundantly clear. Jefferies deeply appreciates patristic doctrine and the authority of our Anglican formularies. Not only does this express itself in his three-part essay on real presence, but it is also reflected in his two-part…
An Anglican Anchor: Hold Fast to the Faith
In all these things, the Anglican Church in North America is determined by the help of God to hold and maintain, as the Anglican Way has received them, the doctrine, discipline and worship of Christ and to transmit the same, unimpaired, to our posterity. We seek to be and remain in full communion with all…
Book Review: “The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law”
The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law. By Richard S. Kay. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014. 312 pp. $29.95 (paper). In the century-and-a-half following the English Reformation, the Church of England cemented its reputation for being markedly averse to political resistance and rebellion, laying great stress on the duty…
Fundamental Principles
7. We receive the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1571, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, as expressing the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and as expressing fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief. The Fundamental Declarations The final enumerated point of The Fundamental Declarations rests upon the 39 Articles…
Book Review: “No Other Foundation” (2nd ed.)
No Other Foundation: Essays on Women’s Ordination in the Anglican Tradition, 2nd Edition. Edited by Brandon LeTourneau and Ben Jefferies. Prolego Press. 463 pp. $25 (hardback), $14.99 (paper). Prolego Press has issued a second edition of the work No Other Foundation, edited by Brandon LeTourneau and Ben Jefferies – both priests coming out of Nashotah…
Common Prayer, Common Faith
6. We receive The Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the Church of England in 1662, together with the Ordinal attached to the same, as a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline, and, with the Books which preceded it, as the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship. – Point 6, The Fundamental…