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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…
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…
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…
More Bad Fruit From C4SO
Discipline for C4SO, When? The Holy Sacrament of the precious Body and Blood of our Lord is no joke. In the Blessed Sacrament, Jesus Christ himself feeds us with his saving body and blood. Bishop John Jewel writes, Herein we teach the people not that a naked sign or token, but that Christ’s body and…
By What Authority? Voice, Vocation, and Ministry in a Digital Age
“By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority?” — Matt. 21:23 Long gone are the days when the country parson was the conventional model of Christian ministry—a man known by name to every family in his parish, whose work was to preach the Word, administer the Sacraments, and take upon…
We Shall Gather
5. Concerning the seven Councils of the undivided Church, we affirm the teaching of the first four Councils and the Christological clarifications of the fifth, sixth and seventh Councils, in so far as they are agreeable to the Holy Scriptures. – Point 5, The Fundamental Declarations The great Councils of the Church, before the split…
In Search of the Church in England
An American Anglican Returns After Twenty-Eight Years I once heard a remarkable statement from someone who had emigrated from Communist Hungary to America. He escaped by swimming the Danube River under gunfire to western shores. He said that he was born American; he just didn’t realize it until he was 18 years old. Well, I…
Thomas Aquinas and Human Law
How humans interact and conduct themselves is the concern of the law in general and since Christ has a great deal to say about how we live and treat each other, the law undoubtedly catches both approving nods and nasty looks from Christians on occasion. Every election cycle, for example, there seems an inherent need…
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