Assurances have been given that the efficacy of Holy Communion is not impaired by receiving one kind only. The official position of the Church of England, given in the archbishops' letter of 22nd July, reads, "While communion in both kinds is the norm in the Church of England in faithfulness to Christ's institution, when it is received only in one kind the fullness of the Sacrament is received none the less" (my emphasis).
Read moreThe rabbis had every reason to fear science. It was done, in their day, by the Greeks, and there was a profound difference between the two cultures, so much so that Jews had fought a war - essentially a war of culture - against Hellenism. The name Epicurus, the Greek thinker who more than anyone presaged atomic science, was synonymous for Jews with heretic.
Read moreI have a second kind of 'in-tuition', in that I am a layman with no formal tuition in any theological discipline.
Read moreRead the entire report in Adobe PDF format here:
http://pbsusa.org/Articles/ACNALiturgyReportCritique_08_2009.pdf
This improvement on the Lord's behavior is typified by a commenter on a blogsite I also read today, deploring the accusation of heresy. We're all Christian brothers here, he noted, and this sort of thing, especially between Christians, is contemptible. He regarded the name-calling as prima facie immoral, and as a practical matter counter-productive because it serves to cut off the constructive dialogue by which errors can be corrected and the bond of peace maintained.
Read moreThe basic flaw is simply this: They let Rome define all the terms. They learn everything they think they know about Anglicanism from the Roman Polemicists whose agenda it is to save souls from Henry and Elizabeth's Kirk. They let Romans tell them what Anglicans really believe, they let Romans tell them why it must be wrong, and they let Romans define for them the true meaning of all things Catholic.
Read moreIn chapter 50 of Book V, Hooker opens with this brief paragraph about the sacraments to launch us into the best samples of his writing. The chapters that follow speak of the deepest and most significant mysteries of God revealed in Christ, covering everything to do with the central doctrine of the Incarnation. Much of what follows about the Person of Christ in two natures would later be almost rewritten in modern English by E.L.
Read moreThis Anglican sacramental teaching is not a Reformation idea. Archbishop Cranmer reviewed comprehensively the ancient church doctors who held that, Sacramentum est sacrae rei signum - "a sacrament is the sign of a holy thing."
Read moreBishop Wright's views on Paul, Israel and justification have been known for many years, and have often been debated in scholarly circles. As this latest book makes clear, those views have not been widely accepted-indeed, they have been openly opposed by almost everyone engaged in the field, from the most conservative Evangelicals to the most ardent liberals.
Read moreThe Bible's remaining 800 pages and fragments - it was originally some 1400 pages long - also contain half of a copy of the Old Testament. The other half has been lost.
"The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures," said Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library.
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