~On Anglicanism~

Articles

Below are some of the articles I have written for the broader Anglican community, featuring a more pastoral perspective than my academic work, as well as some handouts I have provide to my students over the years introducing some Anglican concepts in an accessible manner.

Anglican Confirmation for Suspicious Evangelicals, Part 2 (at The North American Anglican)

Anglican Confirmation for Suspicious Evangelicals, Part 1 (at The North American Anglican)

Preaching Pentecost: The Person and Work of the Spirit in a Time of Coronavirus (at Anglican Compass)

How to Teach Like an Anglican: Developing a Distinctly Anglican Pedagogy (at Anglican Compass)

Sources of Authority in the Anglican Tradition (with illustrations from the journey of theological formation that led me into the Anglican world, regarding heaven, faith, and worship.

Videos

These catechetical videos were produced for Christ the King Anglican Church (REC-ACNA, Marietta, Georgia).

Our Anglican Heritage (Intro to Church History)

  1. Celtic Christianity
  2. Anglo-Saxon Christianity
  3. Benedictine Monasticism
  4. Church and Crown in the Middle Ages
  5. The Age of Wycliffe
  6. Late Medieval Mysticism
  7. Henry VIII and the Break with Rome
  8. Thomas Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer
  9. The Elizabethan Settlement
  10. Jacobean England and the King James Bible
  11. The Puritan Revolution and the Caroline Divines
  12. The Restoration and the Rise of Reason
  13. John Wesley and the Evangelical Revival
  14. The Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism
  15. The Broad Church and Theological Liberalism

How Anglicans Read the Bible (Intro to Theological Exegesis)

  1. A Brief Introduction
  2. The Christ-Key
  3. Intensive Reading (Dialectical)
  4. Intensive Reading (Associative)
  5. The Fourfold Sense: The Literal Sense
  6. The Fourfold Sense: The Allegorical Sense
  7. The Fourfold Sense: The Moral Sense
  8. The Fourfold Sense: The Anagogical Sense
  9. The Fourfold Sense: Guardrails
  10. Lectio Divina: Lectio
  11. Lectio Divina: Meditatio
  12. Lectio Divina: Oratio
  13. Lectio Divina: Contemplatio
  14. Synthesis

How Anglicans Worship (Intro to Liturgy)

  1. Heavenly Worship
  2. Tabernacle and Temple
  3. The Synagogue
  4. Jewish Christianity
  5. The Great Tradition
  6. The English Reformation
  7. The Elizabethan Settlement
  8. The High Church Revival
  9. Anglicanism in America

Resources

I would also recommend the following resources for those interested in learning more about the Anglican Way:

Books

Introductory

Howe, John W., and Sam C. Pascoe, Our Anglican Heritage: Can an Ancient Church be a Church of the Future? 2nd ed. Wipf & Stock, 2010.

McDermott, Gerald R. Deep Anglicanism: A Brief Guide. 2nd ed. Nashotah, WI: Nashotah House Press, 2024.

Special Topics

DeSilva, David A. The Sacramental Life: Spiritual Formation through the Book of Common Prayer. IVP, 2008.

Dix, Dom Gregory. The Shape of the Liturgy. Bloomsbury T&T Clark, repr., 2005.

Jacobs, Alan. The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. Princeton University Press, 2013.

Moorman, J.R.H. A History of the Church in England. 3rd ed. Morehouse, 1973.

Nicolson, Adam. God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. HarperCollins, 2005.

Ramsey, Michael. The Gospel and the Catholic Church: Recapturing a Biblical Understanding of the Church as the Body of Christ. Repr., Hendrickson, 2009.

Sykes, Stephen, John Booty, and Jonathan Knight. The Study of Anglicanism. Rev. ed. Fortress, 2009.

Thornton, Martin. Christian Proficiency. Wipf & Stock, repr., 2010.

Thornton, Martin. English Spirituality: An Outline of Ascetical Theology according to the English Pastoral Tradition. Wipf & Stock, repr., 2012.

Podcasts

The Sacramentalists

Via Media

Word & Table

Websites

Anglican Compass

The North American Anglican

The Reformed Episcopal Church