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November 17 2023 By dvirtue Protestants Need to go back to Basics

Recent scholarship in both the ancient church and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestantism have exposed an unfortunate problem with large swathes of the conservative, and especially evangelical, Protestant world. Much good work was done over the last century in both articulating a high view of the authority of Scripture and developing more self-conscious and sophisticated theological approaches to biblical interpretation.

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November 14 2023 By virtueonline SAMUEL SEABURY

Some say that Seabury liked the dignity and status of his office too much, signing his first letter to the Connecticut clergy, "Samuel, by divine permission, Bishop of Connecticut," and other letters "Bishop of All America" (imitating "The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England"). He stubbornly opposed any "lay" involvement in church leadership (General Conventions), until he finally conceded this point for the sake of church unity.

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November 13 2023 By virtueonline CHARLES SIMEON

It describes spiritual exercises that are meant to lead people to Christ, reminiscent of much popular spiritual disciplines literature today and the message of most preachers who fuss at their congregations week after week for not getting better and doing more. George Whitefield thought the book was so bad that he once caught an orphan with a copy of it and made him throw it into a fire.

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November 12 2023 By dvirtue THE PRESERVATION AND PERPETUAL PROFESSION OF THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES - PART ONE

As Dr. Jim Packer informs us the Westminster Confession was an Anglican document on loan to the Presbyterian communion: "My frequent quoting of the Westminster Confession may raise some eyebrows, since I am an Anglican and not a Presbyterian.

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November 10 2023 By dvirtue ANGLICAN THEOLOGIANS CLASH OVER KIGALI COMMUNIQUE

At the first Gafcon conference in Jerusalem in 2008, the Rt. Rev. John Hewitt Rodgers, Jr., in whose beloved memory this new, annual lecture series is now held, gave a landmark address entitled Where do we go from here? In his Zoom Memoirs, recorded with the Rev. Dr. Stephen Noll, who is with us tonight, John commented that he considered this address to be the high point of his ministry in the wider Anglican Communion after retirement.

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November 05 2023 By dvirtue RICHARD HOOKER (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600)

Hooker was, in fact, neither of these. He fully embraced the Reformation Anglicanism of Thomas Cranmer and the other reformers on all the central doctrinal tenets of the Anglican formularies.

Alister McGrath points out that Hooker's primary argument with the Roman church is their core teaching that righteousness is inherent and infused incrementally over time, that eventually renders Christians worthy of salvation.

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October 29 2023 By dvirtue REFORMATION SUNDAY

It would make the Church of England into a church that is thoroughly biblical, theologically Reformed and confessional, pastorally generous, and liturgically beautiful.

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October 21 2023 By dvirtue The Leader, the Holy Spirit, and the State of the Church

In many Anglican churches in North America, we self-describe as "three streams." Word. Spirit. Sacrament. He gets top billing, at least in concept. When I ask leaders to talk about this stream of the Holy Spirit, I find He's often relegated to the prayer ministry during communion--and that's it. It makes me wonder: Why don't we just say we're "two streams" if that's who we are?

I don't think a lot of leaders would like my top three.

He's all I'd talk about.

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October 18 2023 By dvirtue It is time to enter the Lion's Den: A heartfelt plea to orthodox Anglicans after the HoB statement

Many have mistakenly read the statement as saying these new liturgical materials will be brought to synod for approval under canon B2.

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October 08 2023 By dvirtue What can Western Christians learn from churches in the rest of the world? (I) & (II)

Even so, the title of this article still appears presumptuous today to many for various reasons. First, the theological centers of power are largely found in the West, with multitudes of students from the MW still treading there on pilgrimage for their PhDs. Although excellent seminaries are now found in the MW, in terms of faculty, financial and library resources, and drawing power, they are no match for the Western institutions.

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