Word: anglicans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Godly Sermon." Yet the Anglican Communion is more a byproduct of history than a purposeful propagation. Unlike Methodists or Roman Catholics, the clergy of England's post-Reformation church at first followed the empire around the world not primarily to win the heathen for Christ but to provide spiritual solace for the colonial conquerors. One of the earliest recorded appearances of English ways of worship overseas, in August 1578, was on solitary Baffin Island, where one Master Wolfall "preached a godly sermon, which being ended, he celebrated also a Communion upon the land" for the sole benefit of Explorer...
...wider outlook began to prevail. The church's first official missionary branch, the Society for Propagating the Gospel, was chartered in 1701. In the 19th century, Anglican evangelizing got valuable assistance from the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church. At the first Lambeth conference of Anglican Bishops, in 1867, there were 68 prelates from outside England and Wales. At the next Lambeth conference, in 1968, more than two-thirds of the 350 bishops will represent countries where English is not the mother tongue...
...argues Bishop Wand, that it is the destiny of Anglicanism to disappear into new forms of Christianity, "just as it is the destiny of a river to merge with the sea." Sixteen years ago, four Anglican dioceses left the communion to join with a number of Protestant groups in the new and lively Church of South India. Other Anglican provinces are considering the possibility of similar united churches in Ceylon, Pakistan and North India, Japan and Australia. In the U.S., Episcopal leaders are continuing to discuss the Blake-Pike proposals for a new superchurch encompassing six major Protestant bodies...
Nondefinition. Redefinition, when and if it is done, will have to come out of what some puzzled outsiders regard as nondefinition. Anglicans proudly regard their faith as a middle way between the rigidities of Rome and the Reformation, a unique and vital bridge between Protestantism and historical Catholicism. But Lutheran Theologian Einar Molland describes Anglicanism as "the most elastic church in Christendom"-and with some justice. The essential Lutheran faith is contained in the Augsburg Confession of 1530; the Church of England's 39 Articles, far from being an authorized confession of the faith, are mentally rejected in whole...
...late Bishop of Durham, the Rt. Rev. Henley Henson, once acknowledged that "under the description of 'the Anglican Communion,' there are gathered two mutually contradictory conceptions of Christianity." The Anglican Benedictine monks of Nashdom Abbey use the Roman missal and monastic breviary rather than the Book of Common Prayer, and countless Roman Catholic tourists have queued up before the confessionals in Manhattan's St. Mary the Virgin Church only to discover belatedly that they were not in one of Cardinal Spellman's parishes. The ceremony-conscious Anglo-Catholics seem oddly yoked in brotherhood with low-church...