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The Answer, Fleming Rutledge, Is Blowing (in Part) in the Lectionary
This interesting exchange between Danté Stewart and the well-known Episcopal theologian Fleming Rutledge appeared in my Twitter feed: It's not a simple subject to unpack but it's not as hard to understand as Rutledge thinks it is. First, no matter how you try to make it happen the New Testament doesn't really advocate changing, let …
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Review – Prolegomena: A Defense of the Scholastic Method by Jordan Cooper — The North American Anglican
Prolegomena: A Defense of the Scholastic Method. By Jordan Cooper. A Contemporary Protestant Scholastic Theology. The Weidner Institute: A Division of Just and Sinner, 2020. 358 pp. $21.60 (paperback) Whether you realize it or not, a heated debate has been taking place in Protestant circles these past few decades, over the usefulness or even compatibility… via …
Jonathan Merritt is Out of His League Fooling With an Anglican
Anne Carlson Kennedy's post didn't sit too well with him, and he responded as follows: From top to bottom, this “essay” is a mess. The giant, unbroken paragraphs are a slog to read, and the grammar errors and made up words (what is “Tragical” exactly?) are impossible to ignore. But the worst part, perhaps, is …
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Book Review: William Tyndale: A Very Brief History by Melvyn Bragg — The North American Anglican
William Tyndale: A Very Brief History. By Melvyn Bragg. London: SPCK (2017, 2019). 106 pp. $18.00 (hardcover). $12.00 (paper).[1] $6.99 (Kindle). William Tyndale gave us the English Bible and thereby also the English language as it has been read, written, and spoken since. Melvyn Bragg believes that Tyndale nonetheless is largely a forgotten man—his story,… via …
The Church shouldn’t hide its sordid past — UnHerd
Towards the end of his life — and while suffering from throat cancer in London, having fled from the Nazis — Sigmund Freud embarked upon his most controversial and, to some, weirdest book: Moses and Monotheism (1939). Moses, he argued, wasn’t Jewish at all. He was Egyptian. The whole story about him being hidden in… via …
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Am I a Soul or a Body? — The North American Anglican
An Excerpt from An Introduction to Theological Anthropology: Humans, Both Creaturely and Divine There exists a growing trend in theological anthropology toward what has been called Christian materialism. By Christian materialism, I am referring to the position that we are strictly identical to our bodies—albeit sophisticated bodies, our brains, or our animal (i.e., a biological… via …
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In the Footsteps of the Warden: Reflections on The Rev’d Septimus Harding — The North American Anglican
A few days ago I finished The Chronicles of Barsetshire, a six-book series by Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, for the second time in as many years. An immediate personal favorite, I was introduced to the series by Anne Kennedy’s blog and podcast, Preventing Grace. For those unfamiliar with the series, all six books take place in… …
The Virginia Bishops and Classical American Anglicanism — The North American Anglican
In January of 1800 Rev. Dr. James Madison, Bishop of Virginia, wrote his cousin, James Madison Jr. The former hailed the congressman and “Father of the Constitution” for his past work on the basic law of the still-new American republic. “You have really swept the Augean Stable; at least, you have cleansed the Constitution from… via …
There’s Still Time for Justin Welby to Hand the Anglican Communion to the Africans
He's agonising over the statues: Justin Welby said monuments would be looked at 'very carefully' to see if they all 'should be there'. In a wide-ranging interview, he also urged the West to reconsider its prevailing mindset that Jesus was white, and pointed to different portrayals of Christ as Black or Middle Eastern in different countries. …
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