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.”
Book Review: “Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven”
Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven: Philosophical Problems, Thomistic Solutions. By Christopher M. Brown. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2021. 464 pp. $75 (cloth). A favored strategy among skeptics and atheists to undermine Christianity—albeit less common than the problem of evil—is attempting to poke holes in the Christian understanding of heaven….
Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article VIII
Article VIII. Of the Three Creeds. THE Three Creeds, Nicene Creed, Athanasius’ Creed, and that which is commonly called the Apostles’ Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and believed: for they may be proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture. De Tribus Symbolis. SYMBOLA tria, Nicenum, Athanasii, et quod vulgo Apostolorum appellatur, omnino…
J. C. Ryle on The 39 Articles of Religion (Part 1)
Reading a little further (actually several chapters) in Knots Untied, Ryle has quite a bit to say about the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion: What the Articles are we have seen. What their position and authority is in the Church of England we have also seen. Ought we not now to see what are the great leading characteristics…
Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article VII
Article VII. Of the Old Testament. THE old Testament is not contrary to the new; for both in the old and new Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and man, being both God and man. Wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign…
Holy Orders Within Anglicanism
OR…If Anglicans don’t have priests, nobody does Archbishop Frederick Temple is not known as an original theologian or scholar. In fact, Frederick Temple is probably best known as the father of a future Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple. However, one extremely important event occurred in 1896 while Frederick was Primate of all England: The…
Lifting in Lent
With the title “Lifting in Lent,” you’re likely expecting a solid workout plan paired with the Lenten fast. Well here it is: Five sets of lifting a box of Books of Common Prayer while repeating the Commandments in their entirety as God wrote them in the Good Book, none of this abbreviated nonsense (brah, do…
Book Review: “The Sacramental Vision of Edward Bouverie Pusey”
The Sacramental Vision of Edward Bouverie Pusey. By Tobias A. Karlowicz. New York: T&T Clark, 2021. 232 pp. $115 (cloth). To call a work “revisionist” usually suggests that it seeks to overturn a commonly held understanding of its subject in favor of an interpretation that is implausible or strained, often in the service of some…
Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article VI (Part 3)
Section III. — On the Real Value of Tradition, and the Reading of the Apocrypha. I. THE Church of England then holds, in conformity with the Church of old, that Scripture is absolutely perfect in relation to the end to which it tends, namely, the teaching us all things necessary to salvation. She denies the…
Five Smooth Stones for Anglican Renewal
In honor of Dr. Packer and John Webster The other day I found an old set of theses on Anglicanism that I wrote over a decade ago; they seem just as true today as when I first wrote them, and if anything even more relevant. So, with a few revisions and the blessing of The…