Relating to Christian Traditions
I recently learned of the Anglican Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) and wanted to pass on this little historical tidbit to you. The following is quoted from the SSC Province of the Americas website:SSC stands for Societas Sanctae Crucis - the Society of the Holy Cross. ...
I happened to come across this album (if we may call it that), which is a recording of the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heilgenkreuz. If ever music could compel one to long to lay cruciform for hours before the altar of the LORD, this does. If ever the human voice could sound forth with symphonies of glory, the voices on ...
An Unraveling MysteryIt was as if living in Russia (2000-2002) had provided the snag in my garment the fabric of which began to unwind at increasing rates. We arrived in Russia believing that it was only an exceptional case for a Russian Orthodox person to be a Christian. We left having met many Russian Orthodox who were irrefutably beautiful Christians, ...
IntroductionWhat follows is a piece that I needed to write for myself and those around us who love us and pray for us. If you are hunting for polemic, I pray you will be greatly disappointed here. Rather, this is a personal reflection about personal reasons that my family and I joined the Episcopal Church. It is an attempt to ...
Ancient-Future Worship : Proclaiming and Enacting God's NarrativeAncient-Future Worship[1]Rediscovering God's Story in Worship, rediscovery[2][3][4]Ancient-Future WorshipAncient-Future Worship[1] Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship : Proclaiming and Enacting God's Narrative (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008), 108.[2] Ibid., 151.[3] Ibid., 67.[4] Ibid., ...
The Church has been the recipient of Christ's redemptive work in history and is itself part of that redemptive history. Every Sunday the story of Redemption is reenacted an proclaimed in Word and Sacrament. But did you know that every year the Story of Redemption is told through the Church Calendar.That's what the Christian seasons are all about. From Christmas ...
For those following the crisis in the Episcopal Church, the 2008 Global Anglican Futures Conference that concluded just last week has issued a Statement on the Global Anglican Future, outlining the direction they see as best for the Anglican Communion. The GAFCON members officially, launch the GAFCON movement as a fellowship of confessing Anglicans, publish the Jerusalem Declaration as the ...
1. Anglican Understanding of Scripture[1]Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do ...
the blog of Fr Greg BrewerAnglican Relief and Development FundChurch of the Good SamaritanDr. Os Guinness on "The Gospel and Secularism": The whole modern world represents the greats opportunity for the Gospel since the apostles. It also represents the greatest challenge to the Gospel. Never underestimate the profound anti-Christian assumptions of secularism. Never have evangelicals had clearer views on the ...
A Reformed Liturgical DietExpository Preaching under attack
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Read Expository Preaching under attack at the Two-Edged Sword blog including the comments.
A Two-Edged False DichotomybalancedWestminster Shorter ...
It occured to me this morning, while observing fellow parishoners receiving Holy Communion, that there seemed to be a distinct impression from the Reformation in the distribution of the elements. It is my understanding that in the period prior to the Reformation churches celebrated the Eucharist generally once a year and when it was celebrated laity received only the bread, ...
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (329 - January 25, 389), also known as Saint Gregory the Theologian or Saint Gregory Nazianzen, was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age. As a classically trained speaker and philosopher he infused Hellenism into the early church, establishing the paradigm of Byzantine theologians and ...
Apostolic Succession through Bishops[1]A Single Composite Sacred DepositDei Verbum[2][3]Magisterial Interpretation[4]This magisterium is not superior to the word of God, but is rather its servant. It teaches only what has been handed on to it [ostensibly from the apostles and prophets]. ... It is clear, therefore, that, in the supremely wise arrangement of God, sacred tradition, sacred scripture, and the magisterium ...
via mediaprivate interpretationunresolvable parity11 For example, articles dealing with how Roman Catholics, Protestants or Anglicans deal with Tradition and Scripture today would be helpful. However, articles about Tridentine formulations and polemics are a bit removed for much relevant ...
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.12And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee; humbly beseeching thee that we, and all others who ...
The many forms of theosophy, anthroposophy, and other variations of the New Age spirituality still offer a potent and heady mix to those seeking a spiritually more exotic than what they think they know as the traditional Christian Faith. ... The Church will always have to contend with those who falsely claim to offer a more "spiritual" approach. And its ...
Chapters in Church History, ...Puritan intolerance would have imposed a religious system as unpalatable to the mass of the people as Anglicanism was to the few.1... it called forth the famous defense of the Church of England against Geneva, The Laws of Ecclesiastical polity by Richard Hooker, the most notable Anglican scholar of the sixteenth century. 2The evangelical concern [imparted ...
Our rites have tended to domesticate God within the images of Western culture projected into the heavenly places. Liturgy is most authentic when it is experienced as awestruck praise, the creature standing at the threshold of the Holy. ... Annie Dillard has summed up the point, saying, 'I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which ...
A Handbook for LentLent is a penitential season of the Christian Year, forty days in length, in which Christians focus on repentance and personal devotion in light of the coming celebration of Christ's resurrection at Easter. The forty-day period alludes to many Scriptural events which are important in salvation history: the forty days of the flood; the forty-year Exodus of ...
ChurchYear.net has put together what looks to be a very helpful reading plan for Lent, composed of readings from the Church Fathers. It is available for ...
