Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1017/s1740355323000499
Stephen Platten
The philosophical positing of the necessity of God implies that there is a responsibility placed upon the Church to remind all humankind of our contingency and to speak of God’s presence especially in times of national and international crisis. Recent experience has exposed a certain silence from the Churches and notably from their leadership – notable examples would be the Covid-19 pandemic and the possible perils of continuing conflicts. How does theology prosper an appropriate sense of development and response to changes in culture – both through individuals and wider movements? How can it be made clear that theology is far from being an obsolete discipline in contemporary culture?
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Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1017/s1740355323000463
Ruth A. M. Meyers
{"title":"G.W. Bromiley, Baptism and the Anglican Reformers (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2023 [1953]), pp. xvi + 239. ISBN 978 0 227 17867 6 (paperback).","authors":"Ruth A. M. Meyers","doi":"10.1017/s1740355323000463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1740355323000463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anglican Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46588185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1017/s1740355323000414
G. Sumner
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1017/s1740355323000451
K. Clements
Abstract While the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been overwhelmingly condemned by the churches of the world, the support of the Russian Orthodox Church for the war poses difficult questions to the ecumenical community: in particular, whether that church’s support for the war and the extreme nationalist policies of President Putin constitute grounds for suspending it from the World Council of Churches (WCC) and other ecumenical bodies. The current ecumenical emphasis upon ‘dialogue’ acts as a deterrent to such action, but the WCC describes itself as a fellowship of churches that confess Christ as God and Saviour and therefore supreme over all other authorities. There are parallels with previous challenges in ecumenical history, most particularly 1930s Germany and the stand of the Confessing Church. While dialogue has its own importance the prime ecumenical commitment in conflict situations is to confess Christ, whatever the risks of division that this incurs.
{"title":"Dialogue or Confession? Ecumenical Responsibility and the War in Ukraine","authors":"K. Clements","doi":"10.1017/s1740355323000451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1740355323000451","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been overwhelmingly condemned by the churches of the world, the support of the Russian Orthodox Church for the war poses difficult questions to the ecumenical community: in particular, whether that church’s support for the war and the extreme nationalist policies of President Putin constitute grounds for suspending it from the World Council of Churches (WCC) and other ecumenical bodies. The current ecumenical emphasis upon ‘dialogue’ acts as a deterrent to such action, but the WCC describes itself as a fellowship of churches that confess Christ as God and Saviour and therefore supreme over all other authorities. There are parallels with previous challenges in ecumenical history, most particularly 1930s Germany and the stand of the Confessing Church. While dialogue has its own importance the prime ecumenical commitment in conflict situations is to confess Christ, whatever the risks of division that this incurs.","PeriodicalId":40751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anglican Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49634509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1017/s1740355323000438
Michael Ipgrave
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Pub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1017/s1740355323000426
P. Selby
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1017/S174035532300030X
P. Bradshaw
Abstract Liturgical revision in the Anglican Communion has proceeded relatively slowly since the days of Gregory Dix. While some changes have occurred, especially in the use of modern language, in other ways most rites remain uninfluenced by changes in society and by recent advances in scholarship.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1017/s1740355323000396
Colin Buchanan
Confirmation, one of the seven sacraments in Lombard’s schedule, was retained by the English Reformers, but not as a sacrament and without any distinctive quasi-sacramental grace attributed to it. It became a ceremony to complete the catechizing process for children who, having been baptized as infants, were at the age of discretion now to come to holy communion. The reformers thought that a post-baptismal laying on of hands had been practised from apostolic times, and so commended the ceremony for their church practice. This requirement enabled later generations, such as Gregory Dix, to bid up its significance, teaching that confirmation completes baptism, and thus that water-baptism is of itself incomplete. The underlying premise has been that from the apostles onwards a requisite second initiatory ceremony invariably followed baptism. Both Bible and early church history contradict this thesis, not least the eight post-apostolic authors of the first two centuries who mention baptism. All eight testify to the use of water without any further ceremony. Thus, any insistence upon a two-stage sacramental initiation today lacks historical foundations; Anglicans ought to review residual texts and practices which reflect such a pattern.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1017/s1740355323000323
Jesse A. Zink
{"title":"William L. Sachs and Wanjiru M. Gitau, Becoming Cosmopolitan: Unfolding Two Centuries of Mission at Virginia Theological Seminary (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2023), pp. 242. ISBN 978-1725283541","authors":"Jesse A. Zink","doi":"10.1017/s1740355323000323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1740355323000323","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anglican Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44351245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1017/s1740355323000293
S. Pomeroy
{"title":"David Newheiser, Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 184. ISBN 9781108498661","authors":"S. Pomeroy","doi":"10.1017/s1740355323000293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1740355323000293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40751,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anglican Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41983779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}