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Trans theology as a subset of queer theology has grown enormously in the past 10 years. Under the "Trans Faith Books" section of Austen Hartke's website (a Lutheran whose book on the subject will be released in April), there are about 10 books listed that you might find interesting.
I'm just a simple farmer, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't know much about modernity.
But what part of modernity is it that compels us to contemplate the portrayal of Christ as the "bottom" in a sado-masochistic bondage relationship with the Father, per the aforementioned Marcella Althaus-Reid?
Is modernity also the reason that our churches should be participating in the forcible relocation of white people, under the "transformative grace of Black Power," justified by an explicit affirmation of Pelagianism, as per the also aforementioned Katie Grimes?
I mean, all us simple folk got are a couple creeds and somewhere between two and seven sacraments. What's that against the genius of our best and brightest academic theologians?
The church of England actually has an app called Daily Prayer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aimermedia.dailyprayer it provides the morning, evening and compline prayers from the BCP in both contemporary and traditional language. Oh and it's completely free as well, you can subscribe for offline access if you wish but as long as you have Internet it's free.
I had a computer vectorize it. Here's the SVG, which should scale nicely to any size. (Sorry for the crappy hosting website. It was the first hit on google).
I'll step it up a notch.
The thirty nine articles were accepted and established as a rule of faith by the episcopal church, and not in a "this is a neat historical document" sort of way. They were amended as needed. Unlike the Scottish Episcopal Church, they have not been repealed. So as it stands, the Thirty Nine Articles are just as American as Same Sex Blessings.
As Bobobrizinski said above, they're still in the back of the prayer book, and are really the major defining Anglican document in the historical section. When people are thumbing through the prayerbook during the sermon, or pick one up to learn more about Anglicanism, they're still being presented as legitimate faith claims of the church. For many of our fellow church members, it will be really the only bit of Anglican theology they will read.
Are they dogma, no. I'm on record here saying I feel that a good Anglican should be on board with like 30-35 of the articles, all 39 is just weird. But to dismiss them out of hand as irrelevent and a joke is rather disingenuous and naive.
The most recent issue of the Anglican Theological Review has an essay critiquing the Trinitarian theology of EOW's eucharistic rites. Link
> What was your first ebook?
The 1549 Book of Common Prayer together with the 1535 Coverdale psalter, both in the original spelling. It's my first attempt at improving in-text e-book navigation, and accomplishes that goal pretty well, but I've learned a lot since then and could make it a lot prettier if I were to do it all over. (And I might come back to it and do just that one of these days, I'm a big fan of the 1549 BCP.)
> This looks incredible!
Thanks!
This site is a very good resource for what you're interested in:
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/
I'd also recommend "Commentary on the American Prayer Book" by Marion J. Hatchett to learn specifically about the current American book and its predecessors, including the English books and earlier:
The Korean 1962 rite mentioned by /u/Knopwood is very similar to the TLM. There are still Anglican parishes that do what is essentially the TLM in English, but they're fewer and farther between. As far as ones affiliated with the Episcopal Church, the main two are S. Clement's in Philadelphia and Church of the Resurrection in New York City.
Some differences would include the re-arranged and longer Eucharistic prayer, seasonal variations (like Morning Prayer opening verses and antiphons) and the Prayers for the Royal Family. A good reference to changes is The Prayer Book Through The Ages: https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Book-Through-Ages-Revised/dp/0819215090
Other than the New Oxford Annoted Bible (NRSV, with Apocrypha), the notes of which are informative but sometimes uninspiring, my favorite is the Catholic NABRE. The translation's okay -- not great, but okay -- but the notes usually cut straight to the point and discuss exactly what my questions were.
For any kind of serious study, though, I'd recommend the NRSV translation, which is the most accurate I've found and is the most commonly used by scholars. If only I could put the NABRE notes in the NRSV... But really, any translation other than the NIV is fine.
My SO likes the Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, which comes in several translations, though I don't think any of them include the Deuterocanon (which is a deal-breaker for me).
Robert Prichard's book, A History of the Episcopal Church, is the classic: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O86GMQS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
Depending on the translation you'd prefer:
There's the Oxford ESV Study Bible that's $47 on Amazon. It's a hardcover.
The NOAB RSV goes for $35 on Christian Book for the hardcover. That's probably the best price you can find for this publication right now.
NRSVs with the Apocrypha are pretty easy to find nowadays too, and you can do some price checking for them. I always do a preliminary comparison between Amazon, Book Depository, and Christian Book for general Bibles, prayer books, and theology publications.
KJV with the Apocrypha is surprisingly wonky to pick up. The Oxford World Classics Authorized King James is a paperback that for $15 on Amazon, and its text is identical to the NCPB edition, which is excellent. The hardcover version of the NCPB KJV with Apocrypha is currently a couple dollars cheaper on Amazon than Christian Book right now at $34.
There's also the Ignatius Press RSV2CE you could check out, along with the Orthodox Study Bible.
If you're planning on doing academic work, I'd recommend the NOAB RSV or the NRSV. But if you just want a Bible for the reading of scripture, stripped of almost all the scholarly apparatus and text-set for sheer textual beauty and reading pleasure, I honestly think the NCPB KJV is the most beautifully edited Bible on the market right now.
If you're set on RSV instead of NRSV, you're not likely to find one other than the 1977 New Oxford Annotated that's still in print.
The RSVCE is really an oddball. It's approved by the RCC for personal reading but not public reading. It's basically a mild revision of the RSV, edited out all the thee/thous, and 'corrected' the non-evangelical readings like Isaiah 7:14: "a virgin will conceive" (RSVCE) instead of "a young woman will conceive" (RSV). Similar to the ESV, which is obviously much more popular, but which is rarely printed with the Apocryphal books.
But if you're willing to buy a vintage Bible on eBay, you'll find a wealth of options. The RSV was one of the most popular Bibles in print from 1950-1990, so there are plenty of used copies out there. I'd pick up a vintage Nelson or Oxford edition, but the Nelson editions probably don't include the Apocrypha.
If you just want a decent one to have and read, and care about the Apocrypha, get a used hardcover copy of the 1977 New Oxford Annotated for about $10. It's a readable edition, there are millions of them out there, and it includes all Apocryphal books that exist in Latin or Greek (including Psalm 151).
At home it's either '79 BCP with a NRSV Bible (sadly not combined) or with St. Augustine's Prayer Book. Since the St. Augustine's was a Christmas gift from my wife it's been getting more use for the last week.
If I'm not at home I use this app from Mission St. Clare.
I've also tried the daily office skill for Alexa, but I don't like that they use their own lectionary for it since it breaks the flow of the Daily Office lectionary from the BCP.
Praying was an embarrassment I only recently got over (still difficult), as I was raised Athiest by a militant Athiest father.
Look up what kind of service it is. You should be able to find out on their website. If it is BCP or Common Worship, you can just have a browse of either book. You can download an official CoE app called Daily Prayer IOS - Android which will have the prayers for the last and next few weeks for free. Switch between Traditional for a BCP service and Contemporary for a Common Worship service (they are mostly the same, just the language changes). Just go have a look at Sunday (the exact date isn't too important, the services stay the same in structure).
If you go to a church and tell them your curiosity, they will be very happy to accommodate you.
Hope you find what your looking for, God bless.
Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints is the classic English devotional text for saints. It picks one saint of the day—the highest ranked, typically, on the Roman calendar—and gives a brief life for them. Here's the 1897 version free on Google Books. You can find more recent editions in many bookstores and on Amazon. A more exhaustive form is Sabine Baring-Gould's 16 volume Lives of the Saints, which you can mostly piece together through scanned versions or plaintext ones off Google Books and Project Gutenberg, book 1 is here.
Most of the supplemental books of feasts in the Anglican Communion include lives for the saints on the church's calendars. In the US, those are Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2006 (the still-official book) and the three trial texts of the past 3 General Conventions (Holy Women Holy Men, A Great Cloud of Witnesses, and Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018)—all of which you can find pdfs of online with varying degrees of legality. Though honestly, I find the writing of inconsistent quality in those trial versions. The Anglican Church of Canada's For All the Saints I find much preferable, though it does omit many saints from the ECUSA calendar and includes a number of Canada-specific commemorations.
According to histories such as "High Churchmanship in the Church of England" https://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Churchmanship-Church-England-Sixteenth/dp/0567096238/ it has always sought to be a compromise between the Sacrament and the Word, especially after the flip-flop between Edward and Mary. Always "Catholic and Reformed", I have never ascribed to the view of the Church of England as a Protestant Church.
"The Vocation of Anglican Theology" comes to mind: https://www.amazon.com/Vocation-Anglican-Theology-Sources-Essays/dp/0334029732/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Yes! It's actually the exact same layout as this softcover edition of Coverdale's Psalter, except in hardcover. So you can use the Look Inside feature there.
DM me if you want pictures of specific pages.
One of the best intros is Rowan Williams’ <em>Becoming Christian</em>, which lays out the basics of Christian belief and practice. He is the former Archbishop of Canterbury, so he knows his stuff. One of the most important yet daunting parts of Anglicanism is the Book of Common Prayer. The best intro to it I’ve read is Derek Olsen’s <em>Inwardly Digest</em>. I highly recommend it. That’s where I’d start!
I’m looking forward to the next volume of Sarah Coakley’s systematics, which should be coming out next year. Her stuff to date has been so influential. Kathryn Tanner’s work is also fantastic. Kelly Brown Douglas published <em>Resurrection Hope</em> about a year ago, and it was good. One very influential book on me was Wil Gafney’s <em>Womanist Midrash</em>.
This isn’t from the decision in the CoE, but if you are looking for an Anglican argument the theological and biblical rationale for the ordination of women, Will Witt has done a VERY thorough job addressing all of the arguments against it, as well as putting forward an argument for it, in this book:
E.J. Bicknell is good on the Articles, especially since he doesn't make the mistake of thinking them a confessional document:
https://www.amazon.com/Theological-Introduction-Thirty-Nine-Articles-England/dp/155635682X
I'd recommend J.I Packer's The Heritage of Anglican Theology.
It's also on Scribd if you don't want to buy a hard copy.
Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism by John Shelton Reed is a cultural history of the movement.
It requires you to have background knowledge about anglican faith (what morning prayer is, etc). It's interesting in that it explains how the Oxford movement founders and followers lived and operated with the CoE.
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement: Tractarian Essays by Owen Chadwick
The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760–1857 by Peter Nockles
both books consider history but also put the movement in its wider context - what's going on socially, what's the theological underpinnings, how did Rome respond/engage, how did other Anglicans respond, etc.
Thanks for being here to straighten us out 🤣 Ok - I get it. "Theology of the Body". Sure. So on some level I technically agree. But what most of us understand by "theologically orthodox" we mean those issues that appear in the Nicene Creed.
If you need a reference from a highly educated, theologically orthodox Christian professor (from an evangelical background) who holds a more progressive view of sexuality, here's an excellent one who says it better than anything I could ever say:
Charles II and James II were both at least marginally aware that they were ruling a Protestant country and could not just make it a Catholic country overnight. I expect that somebody here will provide a church history view of this, but I will instead give a link to a history probably now considered very outdated, if not politically incorrect, but nevertheless beautifully written (and also available as an audio book from Librivox). See https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2439/2439-h/2439-h.htm#link2HCH0001 (all volumes of this are available on gutenberg - this is Macaulay's History of England)
For example,
On these grounds many of the most eminent Roman Catholics of that age, and among them the Supreme Pontiff, were of opinion that the interest of their Church in our island would be most effectually promoted by a moderate and constitutional policy. But such reasoning had no effect on the slow understanding and imperious temper of James. In his eagerness to remove the disabilities under which the professors of his religion lay, he took a course which convinced the most enlightened and tolerant Protestants of his time that those disabilities were essential to the safety of the state. To his policy the English Roman Catholics owed three years of lawless and insolent triumph, and a hundred and forty years of subjection and degradation.
Basically just personal choice. Common Worship is a lot more flexible and is mostly in contemporary English, while a lot of people prefer the tradition of the BCP.
Personally, I use this. It's the most simple rendering of morning and evening prayer from Common Worship.
Here it is on Amazon:
St. Augustine's Prayer Book - Amazon
If you'd rather not buy from Amazon I believe it's available through the Forward Movement website aswell.
I have a good friend who is Eastern Orthodox and so I decided to read about it out of interest. We both had similar journeys out of Low church Evangelical Christianity and while I ended up Anglican she ended up Orthodox. Personally the “via media” of Anglicanism which I appreciate was something that turned her off. There are differences in theology including the view of original sin and consequently the understanding and application of the Doctrine of salvation. I am currently reading A Light from the Christian East and finding it very interesting. It is written to help Western Christina’s appreciate Eastern tradition (She has read a lot of books by EO converts which was not what she wanted to give me. This is written by a Western Christian who teaches about the Orthodox Church and it shows in his care and respect for issues.
Thanks, I enjoyed this article on the subject.
https://orthodoxchristiantheology.com/2016/01/02/debating-the-monarchical-episcopate/
If you have access to Erhmans blog I think he's discussed this issue, in reference to Peter in Rome, too.
For a counter-argument, I've not read this but its well recommended by Fr John Behr (orthodox)
https://www.amazon.com/Original-Bishops-Office-Christian-Communities/dp/0801049210
I'm not an expert by any means, but I have read some of this book which goes over Anglican social theory and state with William Temple. There's also a chapter titled, "Evangelical Contributions to the Future of Anglican Social Theology".
The Jordanville Prayerbook from Holy Trinity Monastery. Beautiful prayers.
A Simple Way to Pray by Martin Luther
It’s cheap and it’s 30 pages of extremely easy reading. In fact, if you want I can send you the short explanation of Luther’s prayer method. It was a huge game changer for me.
Once you understand how to pray like this, then you can get the most out of The Book of Common Prayer.
Not that I'm aware of. Even if the United Methodist Church (or some other Methodist branch) considers some sort of union/cooperation with the Anglican Church, many modern commentators have noted that Methodism has become today what Wesley railed against.
Either way, if you're interested in a broad overview of Wesley and his theology, I couldn't more highly recommend Wesley on the Christian Life by Fred Sanders.
This post is days old but I highly recommend the following book:
It can be read for free at https://archive.org
Packer's The Heritage of Anglican Theology is also excellent. He goes through the different traditions within Anglicanism from an evangelical perspective.
It's here on Amazon and it's on Scribd also if you want to read it on a subscription service.
It is't a question you genuinely want to know the answer to, I highly recommend reading The Anglican Spirit by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey. There's so much wisdom and insight in that book.
https://www.amazon.com/Anglican-Rosary-Dr-F-Haas/dp/3945233070
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I would highly recommend getting this book, it will help you and has some thoughtful prayers
Some of the language here re Cranmer’s position is too granular. He left the matter and us squarely on the fence which is very appropriate in harmony with the ante-nicene era of explosive church growth.For you who really want to know how apostolic founda Christians of that era saw and practiced the sacrament I HIGHLY recommend Paul F. Bradshaw “ Origins of Christian Worship”. By far the best reading I have ever encountered on the topic, if you really want to know what the apostolic believers held. Beware your presuppositions amd tendency toward isogetical filtering
Ask yourself - do you want to have the translation your church uses, or just a Bible you want?
If it's the former, the ESV is probably the most widely available translation in terms of marketing and editions in the U.S. If you want one with the Apocrypha that isn't Catholic, Cambridge has one called the Diadem (hardback for now, leather editions coming soon), or you can buy the pew edition from Anglican Liturgy Press.
If you want a different translation you like, get what you like. I'm a CSB guy myself.
Washington is The only on I've made a podcast about - and the only one with Darth Vader in as a boss!! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1226960/7308163-jan-6-washington-national-cathedral.mp3?download=true
Although I think there has been so many good suggestion I am researching some more scripts.... Washington certainly has a fascinating recent history and is a very important unifying force in a divided country!
I found a listing for a published volume of the conference. It looks like T.S. Eliot spoke re: Christian education.
The Rev'd Bryan Spinks's Do This in Remembrance of Me is the most up-to-date current overview: https://smile.amazon.com/Do-this-Remembrance-Me-Eucharist/dp/033404376X
It's a bit pricy and it is definitely an academic work, but to compare with the other recommendations here: - Unlike Dix's work, it's not tendentious and outdated - Unlike McGowan's work, it doesn't focus exclusively on the early church (but instead goes all the way up to present day) - Unlike Metzger's work, it doesn't focus exclusively on the Roman church (but includes Christian traditions throughout the world and the other churches of the Reformation) Unlike McGowan's book it doesn't focus exclusively on the early church. Unlike Metzger's book it doesn't focus exclusively on Roman Catholicism.
I am in the process of learning Spanish and have been doing the opposite. I have been practicing prayers and reading the Bible in Spanish. And are you in the US? Amazon sells a Spanish BCP at a reasonable price.
Why do you feel obligated to pray in English? There isn't any one "holy" language, and God has used many languages to communicate to people. And even though "Anglican" implies "English", really Anglicanism is the Catholic faith and one need not speak English to be Anglican.
Also available on the iPlayer, for those with access to it.
I particularly like the barrel organ version of the Old Hundredth at the beginning.
I had never prayed the rosary before (but had used prayer beads for the Jesus Prayer) when I inherited my late grandmother's rosary. On the 8-hour drive home a couple days after her funeral, I drove by a Catholic bookstore and decided to check it out.
I found this booklet on how to pray the rosary and it is amazing. I use it to pray with my grandma's rosary.
In particular, it has several additional ways to add contemplation to your rosary prayers. It has a short meditation and a long meditation for each mystery, it has a scripture-reading contemplation for each mystery, and (my personal favorite) a way of praying the rosary with a particular brief meditation of some aspect of each mystery following each Hail Mary of that decade. I find this last one really helps take me deeper into the particular mystery.
You can incorporate these added contemplative options into your practice as you see fit. The book just gives you some options to use as you see fit. Also, it is very much pocket sized so you can take it anywhere, keep it in a desk, bedside table, small pocket of a bag, etc.
In the 1549 BCP, the proper psalms (where they are prescribed) are listed in the section of the book that contains the introits, collects, epistles and gospels for Holy Communion. So, for example, you'd see this for Christmas Day:
> Proper Psalmes and lessons on Christmas day.
> At Mattins.
> Psalms xix. xlv. lxxxv.
> The First Lesson, Isa. ix. Unto the ende.
> The Second Less. Matt. 1. Unto the end.
> etc.
Though the 1549 table of lessons just says to use the psalms for day 25, you'd actually want to use Psalms 19, 45, and 85 for Christmas Mattins. I'm not sure if the Anglican Office Book includes this info anywhere, but any 1549 BCP ought to have it.
> Does anyone here know, according to the use in 1549, what feast days would have had their own proper psalms (as opposed to just following the 30 schema labeled in the psalter)?
I don't have this info readily at hand, but I can find it for you later tonight/maybe tomorrow if you'd like.
Another thought is to read poetry based on the psalms. For example,
https://www.amazon.ca/Poets-Book-Psalms-Twenty-Five-Sixteenth/dp/0195130588
I wouldn't say this replaces having a psalter; I haven't read the psalms this way, but it's just something I'd like to consider sometime in the future.
Sometimes I feel like that at my parish as well. After being there around six months I joined a mens group with most older men and now they've become "me people" if you will.
Thankfully my diocese has a campus ministry church only ten minutes from my house I go to 1-2/month as well to "get my young out". I've just decided to stay and be the change I want to see.
PS: if you want to join a video chat on this Thursday night some of us Episcopalians are doing a video chat here https://meet.google.com/pev-gweq-biv At 9pm ET/6pm PT. Feel free to join for a time of prayer and questions/chat
Not only is it and it happens, there's a priest who wrote his book about:
https://www.amazon.com/Deliverance-Investigations-Poltergeists-Supernatural-Phenomena/dp/B08ML11M4H
I have heard, but have not read much of it, that there is a long tradition of Anglo Catholics performing exorcisms for hauntings.
J.I Packer's -. *The Heritage of Anglican Theology" This is an excellent overview of the developments in Anglican history.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heritage-Anglican-Theology-J-Packer/dp/1433560119
NRSV pretty exclusively (except for Greek for the Gospels).
But I confess to a fondness for the KJV, particularly the Psalms. The ESV I'm not very familiar with, though I have been eyeing this.
Daniel Clendenin wrote about Orthodoxy from a Western Protestant perspective: https://www.amazon.com/Eastern-Orthodox-Christianity-Western-Perspective/dp/0801026520/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Q10DXVXLPU7U&dchild=1&keywords=daniel+clendenin&qid=1632174298&sprefix=Daniel+clendenin%2Caps%2C253&sr=8-1
Praying with Beads and the Anglican Rosary
There was a general consensus and actual example of papal supremacy being played out during Augustine’s time is this: A priest Apiarius was excommunicated; however, the Pope would continuously reinstate him despite him mixing up two councils and violating canon law. Despite this, the Africans respected the Pope’s decision and authority. https://www.amazon.com/Studies-Early-Papacy-John-Chapman/dp/1475044909 Also, Paul corrected Peter’s actions, not his teachings. That does not refute papal authority at nor does refute papal infallibility given that these scenario has nothing to do with the premises of either doctrine. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/scottericalt/stop-already-paul-corrected-peter/. Also, to claim Catholics make an idol out of the Pope is a straw man.
Maybe something like this? : The Guidebook (NRSV)
Have you read any calvinist sources on this? Or are you relying on internet discussions and second hand descriptions of the position?
This book is a good resource on understanding different perspectives on this issue. Note, one of the four positions in this book (Boyd's position) is arguably heretical, so read it with caution. The other three positions are all mainstream, intelligible understandings.
This is a great book in Anglican preaching
The Foolishness of God: reclaiming preaching in the Anglican Tradition
I'll recommend another pair of great books.
Soul of Shame by Curt Thompson
Both of these are excellent, but it is the Spirit who changes the affections of our hearts so that we desire less of sin and more of God.
I found that asking the Holy Spirit to remove my desire for sin in the midst of temptation was the real game changer in my struggles.
This is such a great idea! I did a google search, and found this: How to Design and Make Church Kneelers (thrift book) I know you asked for stamped, but I totally encourage you to try without! It's easier than you think, and it will open your world up to so much crafty goodness!
Alternatively, you could find something like this: Printed Cross Stitch Kit and then convert it into a cushion with some plain fabric as your other sides.
Anglicans And Orthodox: Unity and Subversion 1559-1725. https://www.amazon.com/Anglicans-Orthodox-Unity-Subversion-1559-1725/dp/0852445776/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=anglican+and+orthodox&qid=1604855226&s=books&sr=1-4
Its pretty academic, but tells an interesting story.
You may be interested in the book Anglicans And Orthodox: Unity and Subversion 1559-1725. https://www.amazon.com/Anglicans-Orthodox-Unity-Subversion-1559-1725/dp/0852445776/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=anglican+and+orthodox&qid=1604855226&s=books&sr=1-4
Its pretty academic, but tells an interesting story.
I dislike the idea of a Bible that breaks down the readings for you. Just use the Daily Office Lectionary, or print out a "Bible in One Year" reading plan.
The NKJV is my personal favorite translation. I love the KJV, but sometimes get bogged down by the dated grammar and vocabulary. The NKJV keeps almost all of it.
I would recommend getting the RSV New Oxford Annotated Bible. It's an older edition, but has really great notes, is well organized, contains the Apocrypha, is a more stately translation than the NRSV or NABRE, but is eminently readable. You can get a used copy for less than $10 on Amazon or eBay.
I also would say that you need a really nice KJV edition at some point! I have a Cambridge Concord reference Bible, goatskin cover, and it's an absolute joy to hold and read. It cost me about $200, but that's a small price for a Bible I plan to keep for a lifetime and will to my children when I give up the ghost. I love using the KJV and a simple "Bible Concordance" smartphone app to look up any confusing words or to find that one verse that's stuck in my memory that day.
There’s a Liturgical Index of Hymns on amazon that I use. Ittells you hymn suggestions related to the reading for each day in the daily office lectionary. It’s tied to the 1982 hymnal.
The Study of Anglicanism is where I would start. It is a collection of essays covering the entire Anglican family. You may also want to check out the writings of the Tractarians.
The Bible translation will vary. A lot of traditionalist Anglo-Catholics will use the KJV with Apocrypha. Those in the Episcopal Church will likely use the NRSV with Apocrypha, while those in groups like the Anglican Church in North America like the ESV with Apocrypha. Also, Roman Catholic Bibles like the New American Bible are also officially recognized in the Episcopal Church.
The Study of Anglicanism is one of the most thorough I have seen. It includes many different articles covering the entire spectrum of Anglican thought.
I'm gay and I've been helped a lot by my local Anglican church and by my priest (he's gay himself), I'm sure you'll be welcomed.
There's a book I'm reading that might interest you
I enjoyed <em>The Life of Moses</em> by St. Gregory of Nyssa. It has a lot of good insights and has a more allegorical flavor to it.
Hefling, Charles (ed). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey. amazon. A series of essays on various aspects of the BCP.
Hey there, this has been removed due to the Amazon affiliate link. Could you use a standard Amazon link instead?
(https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Apocrypha-Revised-Standard-Version/dp/0195283481/)
This one? I've never heard of it, but it looks very much like what I'm looking for. Does it have only morning and evening prayer? The description leads me to think so, but it isn't very detailed.
Mine was published by Oxford University Press, but I believe you're correct that it is out of print. I purchased a copy from Amazon this Christmas as a gift for my father, but it arrived in awful condition (actual bite marks were visible. I returned that and purchased this in its place. He'll have to carry yet another book, but this version also has additional resources for study.
Again, I'm going in a million directions here, so I apologize. I actually just picked up Kathy Rudy's <em>Sex and the Church</em> wherein she argues that the not uncommon practice of nonmonogamy (among other things) is a better materialization of the Christian virtue of hospitality than many traditional Christian ethics. I'm also reading Marcella Althaus-Reid's <em>The Queer God</em>, and she just discussed how many indigenous societies don't have a conception of marital fidelity, and the introduction of it with Christianity, oftentimes through genocide, also introduced quite negative social characteristics, such as the ownership of women by men, jealousy, consumeristic tendencies, etc. In both cases, I think it can serve to be a primarily colonial (Western, heterosexual) ethic than a necessarily Christian one.
I'm going to come back and comment here again, because it occurs to me that I didn't really answer your question, and most others didn't. If you want a Bible that gives you 365 readings, I have to say that it's a fine way to read the Bible. And I didn't comment on the NKJV: it's actually my personal favorite translation, because it follows the KJV very closely, simply updates the grammar and replaces the most out of date vocabulary, and has excellent marginal references that, rather than trying to explain a particular theological position, simply show differences between texts. The New Testament, for example, has been printed in two major editions: the Textus Receptus ("Received Text"), which was printed in the early 1500s and is the text underlying the KJV, and the Critical Text, which was produced in the 1870s and follows the oldest complete handwritten copies of the Bible rather than the majority of handwritten copies. The NKJV follows the TR, but gives marginal notes for every single divergence between the TR and CT.
Now, it's not approved for public reading by the Episcopal or Anglican church, but there's nothing preventing you from using it in your own devotional reading.
As for a more modern translation which is approved, the NRSV is probably your best bet. Roman Catholic translations such as the Jerusalem Bible and the New American Bible are apparently approved by the Anglican church, but you won't find many reading them. The NRSV is really the ecumenical, academic modern translation of the Bible; and it includes all of the Apocryphal books. I just ordered this new Cambridge edition which is probably the nicest being produced, but the New Oxford Annotated Bible or HarperCollins Study Bible are probably the most-used NRSV editions.
[A Brief History of Christian Worship] by James White gives an overview of the history of the Eucharist. Also, reading the Occasional Papers of the Standing Liturgical Commission will give you more to think about re: Eucharistic theology.
It's hard to debate with someone who seems to auto-set themself to "Christ Against Culture" and then sets about condemning everyone else.
Like somehow, the character of Christ can be divined by grabbing a random slice of local pop culture, doing the opposite of that, and BAM! Instant Presence of Jesus!
Have you read Christ and Culture by, Niebuhr? It's this...
Christ and Culture (Torchbooks) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061300039/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_d-p.zbPKG5310
For the record, I'm Christ and Culture in Paradox. If you want understand that, I guess buy the book?
Christ Against Culture is hopeless... Simplistic, incomplete, and human-centered. I can't reasonably debate it, because it is inherently unreasonable.
Christ in Culture, I can kind of do...
Christ Transforming Culture, that's certainly part of it.
But you seem to be looking for which human culture is RIGHT. And the Paradox says NONE and never will be... Further, you cannot comprehend a Christ Centered Culture, and neither can I.
So knock off the competition between your church and mine... It's a fight between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. You're one, I'm the other.
Pick one.
Congratulations. You're wrong.
And so am I.
What do you have issue with in Episcopalianism anyway? The gays?
Jesus didn't talk about that and you know it.
"An outline of an Anglican life: Lessons in the faith and practice of the Anglican Church" by Dr Louis Tarsitano is an excellent short primer, and it's both clearly written and theologically/ecclesially orthodox:
https://www.amazon.com/outline-Anglican-life-Lessons-practice/dp/B0006R4JRC
A fool would deny how poorly the church has historically treated the LGBT community. This much is essentially self-evident. But that's not the pressing issue here; the issue is whether or not homosexuality is a sin. Suppose it is, like the history of the church has taught; I don't see how discrimination is present if homosexual acts are truly immoral. But I digress.
You're correct in locating the two main texts relevant but I think Romans 1 is the only chapter that really deals with what we modernly speak of as homosexuality. You pose the right question: what is Paul seeing? Is he seeing pure debauchery? Or is referencing monogamous consensual same sex relationships? It's not easy to tell. One way to go about it, as many have done, is simply to side with what the church has historically taught. The other, which seems like what you endorse, is interpreting that text in a new light: in it's proper context as Paul talking about debauchery. I honestly cannot say one way or the other but the Catholics have not changed their stance. While I might disagree with that stance, I can still respect the choice to remain faithful to what they think is true against the changing times.
Have you read The Moral Vision of the New Testament? If not, I would highly recommend it. Hays treats this exact subject with intellectual seriousness but also humility and gentleness.
Bleh, I totally knew that about the cathedral but somehow brainfarted. I've actually been to Bath Abbey once (not for a service , but I did pick up this handy reference in the gift shop), though not to Wells. Anyway, the rubric does specify "cathedral and collegiate churches" so as you noted it still applies.
I agree about having Sung Mattins and Eucharist when possible, and I'm sorry this isn't more common. The cathedral in Ottawa has Sung Mattins before the main mass on the first Sunday of the month.
Not "essential" as in historically significant, but a helpful handbook on several Anglican themes that can help you navigate Anglican theology in the past and today is <em>The Study of Anglicanism</em> (eds. Booty [har-har], Sykes, and Knight) - then if you want to learn more you can browse the bibliographies of its chapters.
Another contemporary introduction is Mark Chapman's <em>Anglican Theology</em>.
Though not an academic history I found this book enlightening on the early days of the COE. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060838736/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0060838736&pd_rd_r=JYZZ0GA7B9YR2T616PC4&pd_rd_w=SOm8I&pd_rd_wg=Zf2WD&psc=1&refRID=JYZZ0GA7B9YR2T616PC4 >The King James Bible remains the most influential Bible translation of all time. Its elegant style and the exalted cadences of its poetry and prose echo forcefully in Shakespeare, Milton, T.S. Eliot and Reynolds Price. As travel writer Nicolson points out, however, the path to the completion of the translation wasn't smooth. When James took the throne in England in early 1603, he inherited a country embroiled in theological controversy. Relishing a good theological debate, the king appointed himself as a mediator between the Anglicans and the reformist Puritans, siding in the end with the Anglican Church as the party that posed the least political threat to his authority. As a result of these debates, James agreed to commission a new translation of the Bible as an olive branch to the Puritans. Between 1604 and 1611, various committees engaged in making a new translation that attended more to the original Greek and Hebrew than had earlier versions. Nicolson deftly chronicles the personalities involved, and breezily narrates the political and religious struggles of the early 17th century. Yet, the circumstances surrounding this translation are already well known from two earlier books-Benson Bobrick's Wide as the Waters and Alister McGrath's In the Beginning-and this treatment adds little that is new. Although Nicolson succeeds at providing insight into the diverse personalities involved in making the King James Bible, Bobrick's remains the most elegant and comprehensive treatment of the process. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
As I understand it, there are a handful which remain, working towards wholesale corporate reunion (which is likely a bridge too far, at this point), but the creation of the Ordinariate has largely removed the reasons for their staying. I recently read a really interesting book on the topic, which I'd recommend if you're interested.
Edit: Also, and particularly with the advent of the Ordinariate, Anglo-Papalism strikes me as an ultimately untenable position. To accept the Roman Catholic position seems ultimately to accept (among other things) the necessity of unity.
Wow.
Well, in the US, our chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is a published global warming conspiracy theorist, so... perhaps we inherited a taste for perverse appointments from the mother country.
I came across this edition by chance years ago, and snapped it up.
If I had the space, I would have a whole bookcase filled with a collection of prayer books and hymnals.
>No doubt there's a historical precedent -- maybe we can thank our friend Constantine for that. As far as theological precedent (and here's a great time to point out that I'm not a theologian), I think the onus is on those who make the extraordinary claim (i.e., Rome). What support is there for the papacy in scripture, other than that single, not unambiguous line in Matthew?
I am a theologian, unfortunately. A historical theologian at that. And I work on the Fathers.
Firstly, the idea that Constantine has anything to do with the Roman Bishop's primacy is absurd. We're verging into Dan Brown territory here.
Secondly, a book I always recommend as a good primer on the historical issue is Adrian Fortescue's <em>The Early Papacy: To the Synod of Chalcedon in 451</em>. There's also a very good article by Fr. Brian Daley, SJ in Journal of Theological Studies, but if you aren't a theologian, you probably don't have access to it.
I agree with you that if Rome is going to make certain claims, she ought to back them up. The fact is, however, that she has. Convincingly. The history and theology is on the Catholic Church's side, I think.
>Well, maybe, but I've also heard that fascism makes the trains run on time...
The Constantine reference plus comparing us to fascists wins you best Protestant polemic of the day award.
Alright then. Brand-spanking new, 2015 Kindle Fire - $49.99, and that sucker has two cameras, kindle software and access to unlimited Kindle cloud storage, etc. etc. And again, that's retail.
Want to go cheaper? RCA 7" Tablet $39.99, retail.
Could they afford it? Absolutely! If they can afford to print weekly bulletins, and to buy prayer books, hymnals, and possibly even pew bibles, then they can afford the tablets. I'm also not banning the printed books; if this still isn't feasible for your congregation in 2015, then no worries. Let's see where you are in 2020.
> Tablets are more delicate than books
I don't think this is true anymore. A Kindle with even a little bit of a protective covering is nigh indestructible. I also don't think that people are as callous with other's belongings as you think, but that's just my naive optimism talking. Suffice it to say that my parish has a sense of shared ownership when it comes to church property and we treat it with respect.
There is an edition with modern spelling. It's outrageously expensive, though:
http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Hooker-Laws-Ecclesiastical-Polity/dp/0199604959
But here's the thing: after I read it, I decided it wasn't as good as simply reading Hooker's original instead. You should try it. Best of all, it's totally free on Google Books. Don't be put off by the fact that it's late c.16 theology. It's still Early Modern English and you should be able to read it.
"The Anglican Way" by Thomas McKenzie is an incredible book. Explains pretty much all aspects of the Anglican tradition in a way that is reader-friendly and easy to understand. You can purchase his book on Amazon, check the link below: http://www.amazon.com/The-Anglican-Way-A-Guidebook/dp/0996049908
Yeah, someone once told me that the main split between how Anglicans understand the eucharist is that one camp focuses on the transformation of the elements, while the other camp focuses on what's happening to the people who partake of the elements. I don't think both understandings are mutually exclusive, but it reflects a certain Catholic/Reformed tension in what the Real Presence means.
Awhile ago I found an old collection of Catholic/Anglican essays on the sacraments. There's an essay by Rowan Williams on the nature of a sacrament, and he offers some interesting reflection on how the 39 Articles treat transubstantiation.
There already was one of these, but it was terrible. I'll try this one out.
oh. same developer.
Not a lot of hope. Maybe he's improved.