The Anglican Spirit: Seabury Classics

Used book in Good Condition. Archbishop michael ramsey was one of the church's most remarkable twentieth-century saints--wise and humble, humorous and compassionate. These introductory lectures on Anglicanism reveal the breadth of Ramsey's theological understanding, his ecumenism, and his vision of the church and the Christian life.

Ramsey begins with anglicanism's enduring characteristics, tradition--the ancient writers of the church who guide us in interpreting the Bible--and reason, including its dependence on Scripture, our God-given capacity for divine revelation. The final section presents Ramsey's theology of the church and Anglicanism's relationship to Rome and the Orthodox churches.

Informal and conversational in style, the lectures offer an overview of Anglican theology, spirituality, and history. Next ramsey explores its teachings on theology and the sacraments, and the evolving doctrines of creation, incarnation, the renaissance of Anglican religious communities, Tractarianism and the Oxford Movement, and the Holy Spirit.

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Anglican Theology Doing Theology

It is a clear, insightful, and reliable guide which avoids technical jargon and roots its discussions in concrete examples. This book seeks to explain the ways in which Anglicans have sought to practise theology in their various contexts. As well as being suitable for seminary courses, it will be of particular interest to study groups in parishes and churches, as well as to individuals who seek to gain a deeper insight into the traditions of Anglicanism.

. Cranmer, pusey, butler, simeon, taylor, Jewel, Ramsey, Hooker, Huntington, Temple, and many others. The book is primarily a work of historical theology, which engages deeply with key texts and writers from across the tradition e. G. While it adopts a broad and unpartisan approach, it will also be provocative and lively.

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The Gospel and Catholic Church

He explores eastern orthodox doctrine; explains the purposes and preconditions of the Reformation; and calls for a renewal of liturgical worship and reconciliation within the communion of the saints. Originally published in 1936 while he was serving as sub-warden of Lincoln Theological College, this was Ramsey s first book.

After more than seventy years, and the underlying complementarities and tensions which characterize the Anglican tradition, its wisdom concerning the relationship between Catholic and Evangelical, remains theologically sound and biblically astute. ". This reissue of archbishop ramsey s classic theological study of Anglican views of the church is important for students of ecumenism, and for those concerned with the relationship between Christ and the church in the New Testament.

Although some of the book is dated, its conviction that the church s meaning lies in its fulfillment of the sufferings of Christ and that every part of its history is intelligible in terms of the Passion remains perceptive and challenging. Examining scripture, and history, doctrine, Ramsey paints an intricate portrait of the church as an example of Christ s death and resurrection.

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The Wisdom of Richard Hooker: Selections from Hooker's Writings with Topical Index

The reader can easily access Hooker's wisdom on any topic without having to read through the many volumes of his theological writings. Now, at last, the timeless wisdom of this great sixteenth-century founder of the Anglican religious tradition is easily accessible to the modern reader for devotional study on any subject of interest and to ministers desiring to cite Hooker in their sermons.

This is the first modern edition of richard hooker's most important ideas on virtually every subject of interest to Christian people, arranged in a topical manner--from A for "Absolution" to Z for "Zeal". Used book in Good Condition.


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Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction

While there are distinctive themes and emphases that emerge from its early history and theology, there is little sense of unity in Anglicanism today. Here, mark chapman explores the fascinating history, theology, and structures of Anglicanism, and highlights the diversity of the contemporary church by examining how traditions vary from England and American, from South Africa to Malaysia.

Chapman looks at current developments and controversies, such as homosexuality and women priests, and offers thought-provoking suggestions for the future of Anglicanism. What is anglicanism? how is it different from other forms of christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the world? Although originally united by location and a common belief, Anglicanism has gradually lost its pre-eminence as the English state church due to increasing pluralisation and secularization.

. Oxford university Press USA. Putting the history and development of the religion into context, Chapman reveals what it is that holds Anglicanism together despite the recent crises that threaten to tear it apart. Used book in Good Condition.


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The Anglican Way: A Guidebook

Are there books that more completely discuss the particularities and intricacies of the Anglican tradition? Perhaps though not many. But is there any book anywhere that covers all of these things -- anglican history, and many other aspects of the balance and complexities of the Anglican Way -- all in one winsome, personal, distinctives, theology, prayers and liturgies, and very practical volume? I feel sure in saying that there is not.

The anglican way is a book born of passion and a lifetime of devotion. Learn about this ancient but fast-growing branch of the Body of Christ. The anglican way is a guidebook for anyone interested in following Jesus as an Anglican Christian. By contrasting the seeming polarities, Thomas McKenzie helps readers to understand the richness -- and the seeming contradictions -- of this extraordinary Way of being a Christian.

I commend the anglican Way to all those who are exploring an Anglican Church. The right reverend todd hunter, bishop of the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others  Used book in Good Condition. Are there books that cover more Anglican history and theology? Yes. Mckenzie is obviously both highly knowledgable of, and deeply committed to his subject matter.

A methodist pastor, Reverend Robert Pelfrey, wrote this about the book. Thomas mckenzie offers just that in this excellent introduction.


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The Christian Priest Today :

In this new edition, the central part remains unaltered and is composed of charges to ordination candidates, with an emphasis on the intellectual and devotional life of the minister in an increasingly self-sufficient world. Used book in Good Condition. Oxford university Press USA. The first chapter has been rewritten and two new chapters added to incorporate recent alterations in the life of the Church: the ministry of the laity, the theology of priesthood, and the roles of bishop and presbyter in the context of the practical meaning of divine vocation.

Of all the late michael ramsey's many books, The Christian Priest Today is perhaps the best loved and most enduring.


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Anglican Vision

In this first volume to the New Church's Teaching Series James Griffiss provides an introduction to the Anglican tradition. Oxford university Press USA. After discussing the episcopal church today and the ways in which it has changed over the past fifty years, worship, spirituality, Griffiss shows how the distinctive Anglican approach has been lived out in its history, mission, and approach to Scripture.

Used book in Good Condition. It includes a study guide, list of resources, and suggestions for further reading. He focuses especially on Anglicanism's ability to hold together theological continuity especially the emphasis on the Incarnation with social and cultural change. Throughout, the book stresses the place of Anglicanism in the late twentieth century and its ability to be both flexible and traditional in rapidly changing cultures.

The anglican vision is intended for wide parish use, parish forums, inquirers and newcomers classes, including adult education, and study groups throughout the church year.


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Anglican Identities

T. William tyndale, George Herbert, Richard Hooker, B. Williams resists easy characterizations and makes surprising connections between apparently opposing positions. Is there an "anglican identity"? or is living with the tension between different temperaments and histories itself at the heart of the genius of Anglicanism?Anglican Identities draws together studies and profiles by Rowan Williams that sympathetically explore approaches to scripture, tradition, and authority that are very different―yet at the same time distinctively Anglican.

Robinson are among the writers and theologians whose work Archbishop Williams explores. In his study of the Victorian biblical scholar B. F. F. Used book in Good Condition. Westcott, for example, he suggests that “we might begin to identify a style of Anglican liberalism that is rather different from what liberalism is commonly supposed to be.

Significantly, the name that recurs most often in these essays is that of Richard Hooker: “tantalizingly hard to pigeonhole―like the Anglican tradition as a whole. Anglican identities conveys the richness of the Anglican mosaic without ducking the difficult question of how far diversity can stretch before a common tradition begins to fragment.

Oxford university Press USA. Westcott, michael Ramsey, and John A.


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The Anglican Spiritual Tradition

Used book in Good Condition. Oxford university Press USA. Used book in Good Condition. What distinguishes the spiritual trading of anglicanism from the traditions of spirituality in Roman Catholicism and other Protestant faiths? The author starts with the first Book of Common Prayer and traces the development of the Anglican spiritual ethos through to modern times.

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The Accidental Anglican: The Surprising Appeal of the Liturgical Church

Oxford university Press USA. Curious about the meaning of liturgy? Come and discover what may be waiting for you there. Liturgy offers all of this and more. In this book todd hunter chronicles his journey from the Jesus People movement and national leadership in the Vineyard to eventually becoming an Anglican Bishop.

Used book in Good Condition. Still others are responding to a call to participate in worship rather than merely sitting back and looking at a stage. Many are longing for historical connectedness and for theology that is "not tied to the whims of contemporary culture, but to apostolic-era understandings of Christian faith and practice.

They also yearn for rhythms and routines that build spiritual health. Used book in Good Condition. Along the way he explains why an evangelical Christian might be drawn to the liturgical way.


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