The Growth and Decline of the Anglican Church in North America The Rev. Dr. David Goodhew February 24, 2021 ACNA, Church of England, Commentary By Jeremy Bonner and David Goodhew This article is an update of our earlier post, “The Growth of the Anglican Church in North America.” The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) grew markedly in the yea... Read More...
Aquinas as Anglican Christopher Wells February 15, 2021 Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church The following short essay appears in a new translation of a minor work of St. Thomas Aquinas: De Sortibus: A Letter to a Friend about the Casting of Lots, trans. Peter Carey (forthcoming in 2021 from Wipf &... Read More...
Two Anglican(ish) Novels: Can We Live Without Christianity? Victor Austin November 17, 2020 Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church By Victor Lee Austin Rose Macauley’s 1956 novel, The Towers of Trebizond, opens with an Oxford woman coming home from High Mass on her camel, and continues as a sort of dazzling high wire literary act of British eccentricity and Anglican peculiarity mixed w... Read More...
Ascension and Anglicanism: Pandemic in the Church of England Guest Contributor May 21, 2020 Church of England, Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ministry By Simon Cuff Today we celebrate a feast in the Church’s year that often struggles to find a place in our theologies, though it is secure in our creed: the Ascension. Jesus is taken up out of the apostles’ s... Read More...
Richard Hooker, Principled Pluralist Christopher Wells April 7, 2020 Ecclesiology, Editorial, The Episcopal Church Hooker bequeaths to Anglicans, even outside England, a set of questions that remain unavoidable.
John Jewel, Confident Visibilist Christopher Wells January 22, 2020 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Editorial, The Episcopal Church John Jewel's Apology for the Church of England is a classic of Anglican ecclesiology and a touchstone for understanding the church's visibility.
St. John Henry Newman, a Shared Legacy Bishop John Bauerschmidt October 14, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, The Episcopal Church The canonization of John Henry Newman this year provides an opportunity for Anglicans to look back on his legacy in our own church. Newman was a priest of the Church of England before he was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. In many ways, his contribution to both Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism is a legacy shared between the traditions.
ARCIC III, Walking Together on the Way: Learning to Be the Church—Local, Regional, Universal Bishop John Bauerschmidt August 13, 2019 Analysis, Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church ARCIC III is convinced that, just as a return to the sources of tradition in Scripture, liturgy, and the Patristic and Scholastic periods (ressourcement) has been renewing both Anglican and Roman Catholic theology since the middle of the last century, so critical self-examination through the prism of ecumenical dialogue and receptive learning can deepen the renewal and participation of the Church in the Trinitarian communion of God.
