~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.

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

My video lecture series “Our Anglican Heritage,” produced for Christ the King Anglican Church of Atlanta, covers the key movements of the Anglican story and their significance for the church today:

  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
  16. The Global Spread of Anglicanism
  17. The Lambeth Quadrilateral and Ecumenism
  18. GAFCON and the Global Anglican Realignment

Resources

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

Books

Introductory

Bevins, Winfield. Simply Anglican: An Ancient Faith for Today’s World. Anglican Compass, 2020.

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.

Tarsitano, Louis R. An Outline of an Anglican Life. Carillon, 1994.

Intermediate

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

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

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

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

Advanced

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

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

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. 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