Tag Archives: Continuing Anglicanism

Museum Christianity?

I have no desire to speculate on the ins and outs of western Christians who decide to embrace Orthodoxy. Many do and find happiness in the eastern liturgical and spiritual tradition, especially with the Russians, a half-way house between Byzantium … Continue reading

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The Underlying Aspiration

Update: increasing numbers of comments here – some incredibly intolerant, others on the mark – you decide… The Roman Catholic Church at least has a system of canon law designed to be both predictable and equitable. The only kind of … Continue reading

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Mystical Aestheticism

I come to a subject that is quite related to some other posts I have written on Romanticism and “neo-medievalism” in the nineteenth century and up to the outbreak of World War I. This term is coined by Embryo Parson … Continue reading

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Herding Cats and Continuing Anglican Ecumenism

I often get comments lamenting the disunion of various jurisdictional bodies of Continuing Anglicans with their various emphases in matters of theology, notably the appeal of historical Catholicism on one side and fidelity to the rigour of the Reformation on … Continue reading

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New Article on The Anglican Catholic

An Alternative to the Church of England? by Deacon Jonathan Munn

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Western Rite Orthodoxy, a new proposition

Not a little noise has been made about The Secret to Preserving Anglicanism by Fr Anthony Bondi of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia. I’m sure our friends Michael Frost and Dale will make much of it, and there has … Continue reading

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Henrician Anglicanism

Given some postings elsewhere on the blogosphere, I might have given the impression that I was advocating that the state of affairs in the ACC does or should resemble the Church of England under the reign of Henry VIII. One … Continue reading

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A Missing Link

No, it’s not a Barbie doll’s head dug up in the garden and submitted to the palaeontology faculty of the local university, but an earlier article of Archbishop Haverland about the doctrinal basis of the Anglican Catholic Church. I have … Continue reading

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The ACC as a Henrician Church

I have just found these fascinating articles dating from 2010 in Retro Church, a blog which is full of resources. * * * More From Archbishop Haverland on ACC Formularies [I won’t reproduce the comments, which can be read by … Continue reading

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The Anglican Catholic Church on Unity

I realise I am getting tied up in knots responding to people I don’t know and whose “positions” could mean anything. Eventually, one becomes emotionally worn out and demoralised by the conflicts, and no progress is made. The restoration of … Continue reading

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