Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Christians love text. Inheriting the enthusiasm of their Jewish forebears for the written word, Christians have left a blazing trail of text in their wake at every turn: sermons, commentaries, philosophical treatises, and liturgical documentation all have their part in the library. Text is powerful because it comes with triple strengths. Text endures; writing our…The …
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In the recent kerfuffle over which Anglican province has oversight over the ACNA's chaplaincy jurisdiction, Bishop Bill Atwood opined the following: Sorting through the history of the relations between the Anglican Church in North America and the Church of Nigeria, we have discovered that a Canonical action remained unaddressed from several years back. Both the …
Thomas Aquinas—known for centuries within the Roman Catholic Church as the “Angelic Doctor” and the “Universal Doctor,” among other titles—has received increased attention from Protestants in recent years. 8,691 more wordsAquinas in Anglican Thought
My last formal, parish-bonding attempt to be a part of the Episcopal Church was in 1978, right after I moved to Chattanooga to work in the family business. I was discontented with Roman Catholicism, having crashed from the high of my college years and the problems surrounding the covenant community business. So the Episcopal Church …
This past week my wife and I had the chance to attend the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, DC. It was an interesting conference on a subject that gets the short shrift these days. In attendance were representatives of several religions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and many others. The fact that any kind …
The ACNA is in quite a pickle, especially it's Diocese of the Upper Midwest, with its recent sexual assault scandal in Illinois. There have been many reactions to it; the one that has gotten most of the attention is the Diocese's, where the bishop is now on leave. Handling stuff like this isn't for amateurs, …
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Every now and then I run across an article that has me saying to myself, "What is going on here?" One such piece is Ben Jeffries' Abiding with Error in the ACNA. There's a great deal to unpack here, but I'm going to try to focus on one thing: his idea that easing the laity …
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A memorable quote from Anne Carlson Kennedy on the death of her own grandfather: It’s only when you grow up and start trying to assemble bits of information together about the people who have put you in the car, and taken you out again, and lifted you up onto a stack of books on a …
This tidbit was an old favourite of mine back home. First, the canticle itself, from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer: It was introduced with the 1928 BCP. Before that (and in the 1662 BCP) you only had two choices between the First and Second Lessons of Morning Prayer: Te Deum Laudamus, that magnificent hymn …
An interesting comparison by Bobby Grow: Scholastic Reformed theologians claim to be in line with Nicene theology proper. But when you read scholastic Reformed theology, particularly their confessions, what becomes immediately apparent is that scholastic Reformed theology operates out of the apophatic ‘negative’ and/or speculative tradition for thinking a doctrine of God (and Christ); whereas Nicene theology thinks …
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