John Jewel, Confident Visibilist
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
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
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.
A Grateful End
My time as blog editor seems to have run its course.
Anglicanism Defined: Three Crises
To be Anglican is to be in a tradition striving to be truly one, holy, catholic, and apostolic in the wake of our particular history.
‘Take, eat’: The Confusion of Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
I fear Benediction is a practice that risks confusion and implies things that appear to run contrary to Anglican profession.
Cromwell’s English Reformation
Diarmaid MacCulloch’s glorious biography of Thomas Cromwell takes aim at Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More.
The Growth of the Anglican Church in North America
ACNA is reporting growth, but is that growth real?