The Genius of Anglicanism Although Anglicanism has long had ‘Low’ and ‘High’ Church parties, there was, until the late-19th century an underlying theology that united them. The ‘High’ and ‘Low’ concepts of churchmanship were very largely a product of which elements of the English Reformed tradition they chose to emphasize. In terms of the way…
The Anglican Tradition, St. Mary the Virgin, and the prudential divide between pious opinion and requisite belief A recent article at the North American Anglican regarding St. Mary the Virgin’s place in the Anglican tradition blessed the reader with a palpable love of the Book of Common Prayer and a rarely seen expertise in the…
They cast their nets in Galilee, Just off the hills of brown; Such happy, simple fisherfolk, Before the Lord came down, Before the Lord came down. The ground beneath our feet grows hard and weary in our journey along the ancient paths of the old Western lectionary. Our journey is interrupted with pebbles in our…
What Accreditation Really Says About Your School What you wear says something about you. So does who you associate with. When I was headmaster of a classical preparatory school, I noticed some students wearing Abercrombie & Fitch outside of school hours. I challenged their choice. A&F, I told them, doesn’t just sell clothes—it sells a…
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty! God in three persons, blessed Trinity! Wake up O sleeper, and rise from the dead works of this life. Awake from the slumber of your daily habits and speak daily with your Father. Shake off…
In some senses, this essay is the fruit of a biblical theology that stretches back a couple of decades. Studying biblical typology predates my love of theology, liturgy, or really anything other than Christ himself. In another sense though, this is my effort to remove Marian ideas from the exclusive sphere of Roman Catholic…
Many Christians, whether they count themselves Reformed or not, speak of the Scottish Episcopalians as a less Reformed wing of the Anglican world: the puritans judge the Reformed credentials of Anglicanism by its conformity to puritanism, and the advanced Anglo-Catholics wish to ditch Reformed Protestantism altogether. Because of this mistake made by people on both…
I bind unto myself todaythe strong Name of the Trinity,by invocation of the same,the Three in One, and One in Three. This morning is one of the thirteen feast days when the Morning office replaces the baptismal Apostles’ Creed with the matured Athanasian Creed. The longer Creed catechizes us so we may vigorously confess and…
It would probably scare some folks half to death to hear that the commonest form of high churchmanship in the mid-1800s was described as a robust Protestantism. This was because it took seriously the Bible, the Prayer Book, and the Articles of Religion, and had, historically, grown out of churchly reaction against rigid Calvinism which…
According to the Article, celibacy—defined as “the state of not being married”[1]—is “not commanded by God’s Law” for “Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.” A number of commentators on the Articles have claimed this teaching is uncontroversial and that even the Church of Rome, which practices clerical celibacy, would grant as much: “This subject admits of the…