39 Articles

This page provides an accumulating index for a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles of Religion.

  1. An Introduction: Shibboleth or Scrapheap? 39 articles in ecclesial limbo
  2. Faith seeking redefinition: beginning with God. Article 1 (a).
  3. Apathy rules: is God impassible? Article 1 (b). This has a follow-up here.
  4. Christ: divinity, humanity and reconciliation. Article 2.
  5. On a mission to hell. Article 3.
  6. Getting confused over the resurrection. Article 4.
  7. Disputing the Spirit: power, ecology, the feminine and the filioque. Article 5.
  8. A fuzzy-edged Bible: which canon and whose apocrypha? Article 6.
  9. What about Anglicans and the Old Testament? Article 7.
  10. Scripture and tradition: a circular faith Article 8
  11. Sin – how original. Article 9 (part 1)
  12. No Adam, no fall – wrestling with sin and science. Article 9 (part 2)
  13. Morality, grace, freedom: where is God in all that? Article 10
  14. Justification: catholic Scripture’s challenge to Protestant tradition? Article 11
  15. Getting good works wrong Article 12
  16. Doing away with a mean-minded God Article 13
  17. God is not a bean-counter of good deeds Article 14
  18. Sinless? Who and How? Article 15
  19. That’s unforgivable? Article 16
  20. Where angels fear to tread – a different and divine election. Article 17.
  21. Universal Salvation? Article 18.
  22. Looking for the true Church? Article 19
  23. Still confused about the Church? Article 20
  24. A confusing counsel on Councils Article 21
  25. A hint of purgatory and making prayer for the dead Article 22 (i)
  26. Ora pro nobis: one with the saints in prayer and praise Article 22 (ii)
  27. Whose ministry and calling in an incoherent church? Article 23
  28. Tongues, translations and non-rational worship Article 24
  29. Classifying mercy, counting channels of grace Article 25 (i)
  30. Do you really call that a sacrament? Article 25 (ii)
  31. Just do it: bishops, morality and the communion game Article 26
  32. But whose babies? The right practice for baptism Article 27
  33. This great sacrament revere Article 28 (i)
  34. The future present of the Real Presence Article 28 (ii)
  35. Discerning the Body Article 29
  36. The common cup: after the swine-flu health scare Article 30
  37. Sharing Christ’s sacrifice Article 31
  38. The queering of celibacy Article 32
  39. Excommunicate or persuade? Article 33
  40. Scripture, tradition and a characteristic Anglican mistake Article 34
  41. What does Oxbridge have to do with Rome, Canterbury and Geneva? Article 35
  42. Crown and mitre Article 36
  43. Off with their heads Article 37
  44. Scripture and the state: not quite the plain meaning (Articles 38, 39)
  45. Not a thirty-nine point GCSE in Anglican orthodoxy (A concluding postscript)
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