A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
Robinson: 18th-Century Anglican WorshipEighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: The Liturgy Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Music Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Music in the Parish Church Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Ceremonial Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: ArchitecturePart 3. Music in the Parish Church By contrast to the cathedrals, where a full choral establishment of organist, lay-clerks, and choristers was the norm, the musical resources…
“See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand,” (Galatians 6:11) For the last two thousand years and for the rest of human history, people will read these words of St. Paul. Here we have, forever canonized in the Holy Scriptures themselves, the mysterious fact that the Bible was written…
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
Robinson: 18th-Century Anglican WorshipEighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: The Liturgy Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Music Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Music in the Parish Church Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Ceremonial Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: ArchitecturePart 2: Music Anglicanism in the 1700s had two distinct musical traditions, which, for the sake of convenience I will call “cathedral” and “parish.” In using those terms,…
Re-Formed Catholic Anglicanism. Edited by Charles F. Camlin, Charles D. Erlandson, and Joshua L. Harper. Anglican Way Institute, 2024. 478 pp. $29.99 (paper). In a recent review of the Nashotah House Press edition of Bishop A. P. Forbes’s Explanation of the Thirty-Nine Articles, Gerald McDermott describes Forbes as “reformed catholic.” A critical response to this…
Robinson: 18th-Century Anglican WorshipEighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: The Liturgy Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Music Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Music in the Parish Church Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Ceremonial Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: ArchitecturePart 1: The Liturgy In the eighteenth century, liturgy meant the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The colonies used the BCP of the parent church, and Ireland’s 1666…
It is generally agreed among commentators that Anabaptists are the primary target of Article XXVI: “Whatever may have been the popular feeling on this subject among the advocates of reformation in general, there is no doubt that the Anabaptists (in conformity with their general principle, that the whole Church should be pure and sincere) held…
Lovell: Vengeance is MineVengeance is Mine: Wrestling with the Violence of God in the Old Testament (Part I) Vengeance is Mine: Wrestling with the Violence of God in the Old Testament (Part II)In the previous article, I presented the problem of the divine sanction of violence in the Old Testament given the fact that Israel’s…
Donald Trump’s re-election victory stunned elites on both sides of the Atlantic and has unmasked the disconnect between the ideologies of Church of England Bishops and the daily lives of the people they serve. The reach of American media, combined with the global significance of its political outcomes, ensures that American political developments help shape political, media,…