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The Bible doesn’t say …

August 26, 2010

I felt a need to add a disclaimer to the page for my projected new series: There is one final but significant disclaimer. Everything on these pages is wrong – at least in someone’s eyes. The Bible and its interpretation – beyond a few fairly factual or platitudinous statements – is strongly, widely and passionately [...]

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Not a thirty-nine point GCSE in Anglican orthodoxy

July 13, 2010

In a comment on another post Sam Norton (who blogs here in case you haven’t discovered him) asked me what I thought about this post by the Ugley Vicar. In that post John Richardson argues for a particular litmus test for orthodoxy, selecting what he sees as the five most important articles of the thirty-nine [...]

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Scripture and the state: not quite the plain meaning!

July 2, 2010

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles) I take the two final articles together, since they raise essentially the same concern. (Not purely from a nonetheless strongly felt desire to be finished with this series!) Their statements perhaps first of all remind us that the articles are [...]

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Off with their heads!

June 23, 2010

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles) I’m vaguely aware that my first blogging anniversary is past and that I want to get to the end of the 39 articles by my summer holiday break. Unfortunately, I’m not at all sure what to make of this next [...]

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Crown and Mitre

June 22, 2010

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles) Sometimes, blogging through the articles, I find myself at one where there is very little to say. This is one such. XXXVI. Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers
The Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops, and Ordering of Priests and [...]

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Hard to blame this one on the gay West, Nigeria

June 21, 2010

We’ve become so accustomed to Nigerian bishops blaming the ills of the world on gay Americans getting partnered, mitred or both that it’s almost refreshing to come across a story where that would be hard to spin as the cause of all social evil. PM News Nigeria is reporting on the bishop who has been [...]

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What does Oxbridge have to do with Rome, Canterbury and Geneva?

June 18, 2010

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles) It feels good to be getting along to the end of this series on the articles, now that I arrive at the thirty-fifth. Again, this article demonstrates something of the huge change in culture between the Church of the Reformation [...]

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Scripture, tradition and a characteristic Anglican mistake.

June 14, 2010

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles) If the bulk of the Anglican articles address issues of controversy with Rome, some look at controversies with the more radical wing of the Reformation (generally hated and despised by the mainstream Reformers) such as the one we come to [...]

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Ruth Gledhill is getting pretty desperate

June 12, 2010

is this how they are going to differentiate between the version of the Times you have to pay for and the one you can still link to for free? Ruth Gledhill has an extraordinarily garbled report of old news today, and it’s free at the point of delivery. Then again if you paid for it [...]

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Excommunicate or persuade?

June 6, 2010

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles) Sometimes the articles make obvious the different context in which they were written, and reveal some of their underpinning assumptions. This is the case with the thirty-third: XXXIII. Of excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided That person which [...]

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