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At the age of 42, "to please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist...
When the nation's Anglican divines in 1789 chose to call themselves "the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.," the name seemed like a suitable description. Originally applied to German Lutherans in 1529, "Protestant" then implied rejection of papal authority, which Anglicans had stood for since Henry VIII; the...
Objections to Christian Belief is a brand-new volume of theological essays -written not, as the title suggests, by ardent atheists but by four devout Anglicans, three of them priests. They are among the dozen or so English academic divines known as the Cambridge Theologians, who today are producing some...
Monk's inimitable piano style is such an integral part of the music he has written that few jazz pianists have much luck with even the Monk tunes that have become part of the standard jazz repertory. Monk himself plays with deliberate incaution, attacking the piano as if it were...
Clarity & Style. From the day of Hooker and Jewel, the Church of England has always been blessed with divines who could write of their faith with clarity, balance, style and, sometimes, with humor as well. Lewis - a layman who never took orders or a seminary course - had all these qualities...