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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
by Michael Jensen for Sydney Anglicans Hat tip: StandFirm Just this past term I have had the great pleasure of co-teaching – with Professor Ashley Null, the renowned Cranmer scholar – a MA unit offered here at Moore College entitled ‘Anglican Identity’. In it we made careful study of the development of the English reformation and the [...]
VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
UK: Church Society Responds to proposals from Rome Church Society Council Response November 4, 2009 The following is a response from the Council of Church Society to the plans by the Church of Rome to receive disaffected Anglicans. According to its own doctrinal standards and history, the Church of England's true nature is that of a Protestant, Reformed, Evangelical and catholic (in other words, universal)...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
According to its own doctrinal standards and history, the Church of England’s true nature is that of a Protestant, Reformed, Evangelical and catholic (in other words, universal) church. Orthodox Anglicanism is therefore defined by reference to these characteristics only, which are set out in the Thirty-nine Articles and the Church of England’s submission to the [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Apostolic Constitution setting out the terms on which Anglicans may become Catholics has been published. What will it mean? In planning the momentous service in Canterbury Cathedral in 1982, a key question was who would sit on St Augustine's chair – Pope John Paul II or the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie? The Dean, Victor de Waal, solved the issue with great insight. The Canterbury...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | yesterday
"The complete text of the apostolic constitution" of that title "regulating entry into the Catholic Church by communities coming from the Anglican Communion," presented by Sandro Magister — "In recent times the Holy Spirit has moved groups of Anglicans..." A suggestion that "the demise of Anglicanism could be said to have truly begun in the 1530s, when King...
Let nothing you dismay (Free subscription) | yesterday
The detailed provisions and norms of the Apostolic Constitution were published on the Vatican Website at 11 a.m. this morning. Links here http://www.vatican.va/latest/latest_en.htm It seems on a first reading very positive indeed in terms both of the possibility of preserving a large element of Anglican patrimony and in its description of the powers and responsibilities of the future ordinaries themselves....
The Lead (Free subscription) | yesterday
The full details of the new Apostolic Constitution have been released. Most of it is what people have expected, but there are places such as when it describes the role of priest functioning as bishops in all but name that are surprising in how far they go.
A conservative blog for peace (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs An Eastern Curé d’Ars, a little-known priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. As you can see from the painting they’re the most traditional/least self-latinised of their bigger churches. (The tiny Russian Catholic Church is the same way.) Arguably extra-liturgical devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is a latinisation but of course there’s no...
Prodicus (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I had a bit of a lie-in this morning. Half-awake, I switched on the radio and caught the last half of the Sunday religious affairs magazine on BBC Radio 4. They were talking about the Windsor Celebration , a meeting of world religious leaders pledging to 'reduce the carbon footprints of their faiths' (whatever the fuck that means) everywhere from Medjugorje to Medina. So I was right, then . L Ron Gore...
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Euroscepticism in this country is rather like Anglicanism: a set of beliefs widely shared but moderately held. Matthew D'Ancona, Sunday Telegraph .
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Former priest announces move to Catholic church A bestselling author and Anglican priest has launched an outspoken attack on the Church of England and revealed that he is converting to Catholicism. GP Taylor, whose children's book Shadowmancer became an international bestseller and is being turned into a film, accused the church of sinking "into a liberal pit that was no earthly use and offered...
O cuniculi! Ubi lexicon Latinum posui? (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
When I first started blogging, I was supported and enjoyed supporting "The Continuum" blog. However, lately in the last few months it has become quite clear that rather than seeking for Unity, they have been looking more and more to define themselves as the true bastion of Anglicanism at the expense of charitable dialogue. Fr Chadwick's blog gave me some vital information about one of the...
Let nothing you dismay (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Go to the Credo Cymru website for the latest correspondence concening the bishops' latest and highly predictable refusal to grant episcopal provision to traditional Anglicans in Wales: http://www.credocymru.co.uk/home/news.html One question: given the fact that we all recognise that alternative or additional episcopal care is indeed an anomaly in terms of the theology of holy order, albeit in the service...
icWales (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
STEP into the kitchen at Lambeth Palace and you might just be greeted by the smell of freshly- baked ginger biscuits.
Rev. Thomas Shepherd's Theo-Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
[The following discussion continues comments made in e-mails at Unity Institute and opens the floor for comments and critical analysis.] My definition of a sacrament is any event (or place) during which the presence of God becomes more readily discernible ( Glimpses of Truth). This is a broadening of Martin Luther's basic idea that God's real presence can be discovered in the communion elements, even...
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