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The Ordinariate and Salvation
There’s been much buzz about the new Anglican Ordinariate in recent weeks, both from Anglicans and from Roman Catholics. One of the more interesting parts of this conversation, at least from the...
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A Church Shaped Salvation
Though it’s unpopular to say, it is nevertheless true that there is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church. The difficulty, of course, is unpacking what that means. Fr. Stephen Freeman, an...
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When God Must Impress Himself
Over at the excellent blog “An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy,” Peter Ould and I have been going back and forth on the topic of election. Peter takes a strict Calvinist position, arguing for...
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Dearly Beloved: An Anglican Theology of Marriage (Part IV)
It is beyond the scope of this series to do a comprehensive analysis of the theology of marriage in all Christian traditions. Nevertheless, having shown that the classical Anglican theology of marriage...
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Ask an Anglican: The Filioque
I’m using a comment by Eugene in a previous thread to inaugurate a new regular series here that I’m calling Ask an Anglican. I get a lot of questions about what Anglicans believe about various things,...
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Ask an Anglican: The 39 Articles
Samuel writes: To what extent do the 39 articles shape modern Anglicanism? From my Church of England perspective it seems to be bordering on disingenuity to quote from them in an unqualified manner;...
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Ask an Anglican: Choosing the One True Church
A challenging question from Robert: As a former Roman Catholic who has for some decades been an Episcopalian (though unhappy with the recent theological drift of the TEC), I am painfully aware of...
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Ask an Anglican: When the Church is no Longer the Church
Two questions today that are interrelated. Cadog writes: In a prior post, you offered assurances that staying in the Episcopal Church was right, even though there are some serious and disturbing...
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The Three Lens Telescope
I saw a bumper sticker once that said, “The Bible Says It, I Believe It, That Settles It.” This adequately describes the way that many modern western Christians understand and practice the doctrine of...
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Every Man a Pope (or Why I’m Not a Lutheran)
For the past year or so, I have participated in a Bible Study every Tuesday morning with a group of mostly Lutheran Church Missouri Synod pastors. We look at the readings for the week in the original...
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How to Stand for Classical Anglicanism in the Midst of Anglican Pluralism
It is very difficult to speak of Anglicanism these days without a modifier. There is no longer Anglicanism but rather Anglicanisms. Catholic Anglicanism, Evangelical Anglicanism, Liberal Anglicanism,...
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The Living Church Lives!
In this episode, Fr. Jonathan talks with Dr. Christopher Wells, the Editor of The Living Church, about how the magazine continues to tackle big ideas and speak to both the Church and the culture.Filed...
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Biblical Catholicism: The Branch Theory
Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI meeting in 1966. “There’s a quaint Anglican concept of the universal Church known as the ‘branch theory,’” says Damian Thompson at the start of...
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Theology, Life, and Death
An interview I did with the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner back in September while we were both in Dallas at The Cranmer Institute. This was a great privilege for me because Dr. Radner’s work has been very...
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Ask an Anglican: What’s in a Name?
That’s what Juliet asked in Shakespeare’s famous love story gone wrong. And in our own love story gone wrong, the modern Church, it is a question that gets asked fairly often as well. Thus, Matty...
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Ask an Anglican: Are Anglicans Schismatics?
From the 1933 film “The Private Life of Henry VIII.” Richard writes: What would you say to the charge that the Anglican Church was born originally only out of Henry VIII’s desire to secure a divorce...
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Biblical Catholicism: Battling Newman’s Ghost
Last week, I had the privilege of visiting Nashotah House Seminary for the first time. While there, I was told that there is a coffeehouse on campus that has an old Anglo-Catholic joke worked into its...
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There is No Such Thing as Protestantism
From the Museum of Funeral Customs in Springfield, Illinois. Photo by Robert Lawton. Death is still segregated in American society. You may be surrounded by diversity in your school or your workplace,...
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The Sacrifice of Ecumenism
Window of Saint Tikhon in the Chapel at Nashotah House Seminary. (Photo by author, please ask before reproducing.) Whether I agree or disagree with him, Fr. Stephen Freeman’s writing is always...
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Ask an Anglican: The Filioque
I’m using a comment by Eugene in a previous thread to inaugurate a new regular series here that I’m calling Ask an Anglican. I get a lot of questions about what Anglicans believe about various things,...
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