Reformation Martyrs English Reformation In the English Reformation the nature of the dispute was not about personal opinions and personal beliefs. Our English Reformers appealed to the Primitive Church of the first five centuries to demonstrate where in doctrine and [...]
The Cost of Conscience Survey The story so far… For the last two months this column has been given over to publishing the results of a huge and wide-ranging survey of Anglican beliefs. The information was gathered and analyzed by [...]
A clerical detective story by PDJ Aymes The funeral of Dr Hugh Tofts, the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury, was, as all who attended it freely admitted, a memorable event. The body – which had lain in state overnight in the [...]
The story of the two disciples walking to Emmaus on the afternoon of the day of the Lord's Resurrection (Luke 24.13–35) is of great importance to biblical exegesis and the structure of Christian worship. The Birth of Exegesis First, with [...]
Rowan Williams and friends, as the press reported them. ‘If there's one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture, [...]
by Rachel Gladraggs Our Ballroom Dancing Correspondent In a remarkable new book to be published in time to catch the Christmas market Andrew Baumsterk, Professor of Inventive Hermeneutics at the University of Stornaway, will claim that the deacon Phoebe, mentioned [...]
Dr Halliburton outlines how it came to its famous Definition The Council which met at Chalcedon on 8th October, 451 had been summoned in some haste by the Emperor Marcian to address strong protests from many quarters against the judgements [...]
EVERYBODY knows that there are no proofs of the existence of God. Everybody? Only because that is what we have been told. It is not something I could ever have worked out for myself. The various classical proofs of the [...]
The Music of the Spheres NATURE, red in tooth and claw, is not the whole story. Nature is also mystery, awe, majesty. In it and through it we sense the divine. Our forebears knew this and responded appropriately, and our [...]
John Richardson discovers we are already succeeding I have recently come across a remarkable book with some remarkable lessons. The only problem lies in knowing what exactly to do with them. The book is The Churching of America 1776–1990, and [...]