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There Is No Traditionalist Liturgical Revival Happening—Yet
There is a very popular narrative you will hear among young Christians—that the millennial and zoomer generations have embarked on an effort to return the Christian Church to its former glory, overthrow the stagnant failures of contemporary Protestantism and vernacular Catholicism, and reaffirm the older ways of Traditional Christianity. They claim that there is a…
“Fare Forward”: The Influence of Christian Humanism on the Classical Christian Education Movement (Part 4 of 4)
IV. Classical Christian Education in the 21st century: A Radical Return to Christian Humanism Not long after Irving Babbitt’s death, the cataclysmic cultural shifts following two world wars encouraged influential writers and thinkers to take up, once again, the torch of humanism as a means to reform higher education. English writers like Eliot, Lewis and…
“Fare Forward”: The Influence of Christian Humanism on the Classical Christian Education Movement (Part 3 of 4)
III. Old and New Humanisms A. The Rise of Renaissance Humanism In order to understand the effects of humanism on the classical Christian curriculum being implemented in schools in 2023, one must examine the methods, texts, and program of study commended by Renaissance Humanist thinkers. Craig Kallendorf highlights the unique role that Renaissance humanism had…
“Fare Forward”: The Influence of Christian Humanism on the Classical Christian Education Movement (Part 2 of 4)
II. The Humanist Roots of Christian Education If humanism is to be primarily understood as a return to the classical sources, then the life, conversions, and writings of St. Augustine provide an interesting case study of an individual whose classical education was fully realized in light of the Gospel. Many Christian parents may pause at…
“Fare Forward”: The Influence of Christian Humanism on the Classical Christian Education Movement (Part 1 of 4)
Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging; You are not those who saw the harbour Receding, or those who will disembark. Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind. -T.S. Eliot, “The Dry Salvages” I. Introduction The world of…
Why Women’s Ordination Cannot be Tolerated
Introduction The error of women’s ordination has stalked, cursed, and haunted Anglicanism for nearly half a century and no matter where we go or what efforts we make to correct our wrongs, we cannot seem to fully rid ourselves of it. For many conservative Anglicans, women’s ordination is like the relative you cannot stand but…
Interview: St. Andrew’s College – Rev. Brian Foos & Dr. John Seel
t can seem daunting to those within the Anglican world to find a college or university which offers to form young people within the Tradition. As for myself, when it came time to pursue my undergrad, I opted to attend a Roman Catholic institution as it was the best I could find at the time….
Women and Men in Ministry
In 1970 the Episcopal Church USA eliminated the canon for deaconesses and included women in the canon on deacons. In 1976 its General Convention approved the ordination of women to both the diaconate and priesthood. Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Roman Catholic Church condemned both moves, protesting that these changes were made unilaterally and against…
How to think like an evangelical catholic about the proposal to ordain women as pastor-bishops
Confessing Anglicans are divided on the question whether women’s ordination is in accord with the teaching of Scripture and consistent with the doctrinal heritage of the Church. On the one hand, there is great exegetical disagreement regarding the status of women in pastoral ministry in the New Testament itself. That, certainly, is the really decisive…
Pascal’s Wager and the Ordination of Women
“IF women cannot be priests but are allowed to “act” as priests then they are putting the souls of God’s children at risk.”
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