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“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 Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.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…
The Reformers on Civil Government
Legitimate discourse on the role of the civil magistrate in modern life is range bound between classical liberalism on the political right and progressive liberalism on the political left. The two sides of the liberal coin hold to different perspectives on the role of government in society but share a common telos in what they…
Canon Law and the Ecclesiastical Leviathan
In his classic 1987 book Crisis and Leviathan, economic historian Robert Higgs convincingly argued that the vast growth in the size and scope of the American government over the course of the twentieth century was due primarily to government actions taken in response to national emergencies. Higgs identifies critical events such as the Great Depression,…
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…
Exchanging Two Swords for Two Kingdoms
Reforming the Bright Ages Social historian R.W. Southern defined the Middle Ages as “the period in Western European history when the church could reasonably claim to be the one true state, and when men acted on the assumption that the church had an overriding political authority.”[1] For most moderns, the Middle Ages provide a…
Anglican Political Theology
James Clark recently reviewed The Case for Christian Nationalism at The North American Anglican. He rightly noted that “contemporary effort to formulate an alternative political vision to liberal democracy has been underway for some time now” and that “much of the constructive literature thus far has been produced by Roman Catholics, with little comparable work…
Bishop William White: Anglican Patriot
Piety, Freedom, and the American Revolution in the Ecclesiology of Bishop William White Often, for American Anglicans, there is an awkward disjuncture between their faith and history. Despite the fact that the Episcopal Church has had a strong presence in American history, the rationale to become or remain an Anglican has increasingly evaporated. Often the…
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….
Waiting for a King
It’s interesting how many Western legends include the tale of a sleeping hero: one who died – or perhaps only sleeps – and will return when he is needed the most. From Holger Dansk in Denmark, King Charlemagne in France and Germany, and of course Albion’s own King Arthur, the stories promise that the sleeping…
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