Renewing the Art of Holy Dying
How might we encourage faith and trust in Christ in the final hour? How might we minister to bodies we believe will rise again? How might we convey the mercy of God to those whose strength is gone?
The Liturgical Movement’s Methods and Motivation
In the Liturgical Movement, the posture was ressourcement, an instinct to draw from old, significant wells long forgotten.
Anti-sacramentalism and history’s verdict
The Vision Glorious, part three
The Vision Glorious
This essay examines some of the principles that animated the leaders of the Oxford Movement and considers their relevance for contemporary opportunities and concerns.
Leonel Mitchell, reshaped
Liturgical scholar Leonel Mitchell played a central role in preparing the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.
Figural exegesis and the Anglican tradition
Anglicanism has made a special commitment to pursuing figural exegesis.
Lionel S. Thornton and Scripture as ‘the divine mind’
For L.S. Thornton, “what is given to us in the gospels is the revealed Word of God, whether verbally identical with Christ’s spoken word or not.”
Lionel S. Thornton: The 20th century’s lonely figural reader
Lionel S. Thornton (1884-1960) was far and away the most prolific and talented practitioner of figural exegesis in the 20th century, as well as its most consistent theorist.