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Introduction to Anglican Theology

This course is for anyone who wishes to investigate Anglican Theology. It does not introduce all of Anglican Theology, but rather, presents the Anglican case for reform at the time of the Reformation. The lessons show why Anglicans rejected major portions of the teaching and practice of the Roman Church, and at the same time, did not accept many of the innovations of the Puritans.

In my view, early Anglicanism was an orthodox and beautiful rendering of the Christian faith. In spite of great positive gains, however, there were, in my view, two weaknesses in the original Anglican Reformation. First, in regard to liturgy, there was an over-emphasis on the Word and a lack of awareness of the importance of sight in regard to knowing God. This was understandable at the time given the degeneration of the Roman Rite almost to the point of sight alone. This has, in part, been rectified by the Oxford Movement and recent developments in liturgical renewal. Second, there was the failure to appreciate the power of the Holy Spirit. Among other things, it would have been good to return to the sources by instituting a full-blown catechumenate. The essays,

A New Heart and Soul and The Believer’s Baptismal Promises, begin to address this weakness.  The links are given below in the order of the lessons. 

The Rev. Robert J. Sanders, Ph.D.
February, 2015

Anglicanism

A Kenyan Liturgy

Archbishop Eames, Evaluation and Critique

Baptismal Rites

Barth - Economic Life and a History Chapter 5

Barth - Political Responsibility for Economic Life Chapter Four

Barth on Anselm

Building Up the Ancient Ruins - A Response to the Present Crisis

Cranmer on Salvation - Introduction

Cranmer's Homily on Salvation

Evangelical Truth

Freedom

High Church Ritual

History and the Church Today

Hooker and the Moral Law

How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?

Inclusive Yet Bounded

Infant Baptism and Confirmation

Introduction to Anglican Theology

Introduction to Anglican Theology - Anglicanism and Scripture

Introduction to Anglican Theology - Articles One Through Five

Introduction to Anglican Theology - Articles Six Through Twenty

Introduction to Anglican Theology - Articles Twenty-One Through Thirty-Nine

Introduction to Baptism

Is Christ the Only Way?

It's Not Just Sex, It's Everything - The Virginia Guidelines

Judgment Begins at the Household of God

Jung, the Faith, and the New World Order

Justification, The Reformers, and Rome

Macquarrie on Prayer

Nicea and the Invasion of Bishops in Other Dioceses

Preface to the 1549 Prayer Book

Prefaces and Offertory Sentences

Reason and Revelation in Hooker

Reason in Hooker

Richard Hooker and Homosexuality - Introduction

Richard Hooker and the Archbishop's Address

Richard Hooker and the Puritans

Richard Hooker and Universal Salvation

Spong is not an Aberration

The Anglican Formularies are not Enough

The Articles of Religion

The Bible Did not Die for Us

The Creeds and Biblical Interpretation

The Creeds and Biblical Interpretation Continued

The Diocesan Convention

The Ecstatic Heresy

The Essential Question

The Future of Anglicanism

The Historic Episcopate

The House of Bishop's Pastoral Study on Human Sexuality - Theological and Scientific Consideration

The Jubilee

The New York Hermeneutic

The Presiding Bishop's Letter to the Primates

The Staint Andrew's Draft

To Stay or not to Stay

Two Excellent Books

Where are We Headed

Why I Left

Why We Need A Confession

Wild Swans