The time has now come to admit and declare the great and sad farewell to authentic Anglicanism -- already achieved by those rogue elements within the church utterly opposed to the constitutional and confessional character of the good ship Ecclesia Anglicana. Mutineers and pirates have jumped aboard and reprehensible bishops and erring theologians have taken hold of the helm. There is an outright revolt against heavenly truth and holy living.
Read moreIt's nice sentiment, but not helpful, what Charles Simeon said: "No dissenter dares to preach as I do, one day Calvinist and another day Arminian, just as the text happens to be." This denies the theological differences between the two and the fact that Arminianism was invented specifically to oppose Calvinism.
Read moreBishop Provost of New York resigned in 1801. Bishop White made only one general diocesan visitation in his long tenure as Bishop of Pennsylvania. Bishop James Madison seemed to have resigned himself to the demise of the church in Virginia after only one diocesan visitation and called no more conventions after 1805 and attended no more meetings of the bishops.
Read moreHartshorne, like Whitehead, was the son of an Anglican minister. Historically, Anglicans have posited unorthodox views of God. Bishop George Berkeley introduced the concept of panentheism which means that all is in the one God. Hartshorne preferred the term dipolar over panentheism.
Read moreThe Church listens intently, and conveys carefully, the message of God to his world. Its aim and aspiration is to speak to mankind with spot-on accuracy, translucent clarity and infectious conviction. We fallible witnesses to the Word will not fully comply with the divine ideal, but the Spirit of God must be implored to resource the People of God with sufficiency of comprehension and skillful communication to commend Christ as Lord and Redeemer to the estranged mass of sinful humanity.
Read moreAs one survivor of Stutthof, Manfred Goldberg, regretted, "It's a foregone conclusion that a 97-year-old would not be made to serve a sentence in prison--so it could only be a symbolic sentence." At the same time, "the length should be made to reflect the extraordinary barbarity of being found to be complicit in the murder of more than 10,000 people."
Read moreHe withstood papal discipline, resisting an interdict imposed upon his native city over a number of years (1605-7), and proposed that Venice ought to have a "free church" with a homegrown liturgy and a toleration for Protestantism. It is this religious tendency that is the concern of this brief article. Sarpi remained Catholic as was his preference, but he harbored a high regard for Reformed Anglicanism.
Read moreThe martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was responsible for creating the Book of Common Prayer (1549, revised 1552), the historic Reformation prayers of the Church of England. His liturgy of the Lord's Supper brings the gospel essentials into wonderfully clear focus with its emphasis on salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. This essay briefly summarizes Cranmer's central priorities.
Salvation by grace alone through Christ alone
Read moreEdward Norman in his publication Anglican Difficulties observes, "This, it must be noted, is in considerable contrast to its noble past and steadfast adhesion to its own tradition of Christian understanding. That was, it is true, a thoroughly Protestant tradition, as reference to the teachings in the Book of Common Prayer, in the Articles of Religion, and in the Homilies, will make plain.
Read moreOrthodoxy means "right belief," and for Christianity, a right belief is a belief that agrees with the whole of Scripture and the teachings of Jesus and the apostles. This is especially true regarding the core doctrines of the Trinity and the Church.
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