The Anglican Way: The Monasticism of All Believers
One of the most tragic actions taken during the Reformation was the closing of the monasteries and seizing of the monastic lands by King Henry VIII. There can be little doubt that this action was...
View ArticleAsk an Anglican: Something About Mary
Several questions have been coming in about the Blessed Virgin Mary and her place in Anglicanism. Derek writes: I have been studying the articles, and have a question about the invocation of the...
View ArticleFight For Your Right to Parties
One of the developing facets of Anglicanism since the nineteenth century has been the introduction of church parties. Anglo-Catholicism, Evangelicalism and Liberalism all owe their existence as...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: Rethinking the Anglo-Catholic Movement
When I was in seminary, one of my professors, a staunch British Calvinist, made the off-hand remark one day that Anglo-Catholicism could not be defended from an historical perspective. The point seemed...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: The New Old High Churchmen
In Anglican circles today, the term “High Church” has become so thoroughly associated with Anglo-Catholicism that the two are assumed to be synonymous. Even in other Christian bodies, the phrases “High...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: Smells and Bells
Church of the Holy Cross, Dallas, TX. Used with permission of the Rev. G. Willcox Brown, SSC. I was baptized as an infant in the spring of 1980 into Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church....
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: Battling Newman’s Ghost
Last week, I had the privilege of visiting Nashotah House Seminary for the first time. While there, I was told that there is a coffeehouse on campus that has an old Anglo-Catholic joke worked into its...
View ArticleBiblical Catholicism: On Being a 39 Articles Catholic
The phrase “Prayer Book Catholic” has come to characterize those Anglo-Catholics who not only use the Book of Common Prayer but believe it to be the liturgy par excellence for Catholic worship and...
View ArticleAsk An Anglican: Are Crucifixes and Icons Idolatrous?
Grace and Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church, Baltimore, MD. (Photo by Fr. Jonathan. Please ask permission before reproducing.) Marshall writes: I used to go to a Reformed Presbyterian Church. They were...
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