Methodists and Anglicans: Zeal and patience
The healing of Anglican-Methodist division requires an honesty about our differences and our history.
John Wesley, Catholic forerunner?
John Henry Newman wrote, "Who would not rather be found even with Whitfield and Wesley, than with ecclesiastics whose life is literary ease at the best, whose highest flights attain but to Downing Street or the levee?"
The Oxford Movement’s sacramental interpretation of Scripture
For the Oxford Movement, the interpretation of the Bible is inextricably bound up with the doctrine of the Incarnation and the sacraments, so that to neglect a sacramental or allegorical interpretation is in some way to fail to appreciate, or even to deny, these doctrines.
Spiritual renewal, Scripture, and the Oxford Movement: The vision of God
Spiritual exegesis is part and parcel of the Oxford Movement's efforts to help the English church recover her capacity to see and to enjoy the kind of vision of God, which is compellingly attractive, which is the beginning and end of Christian life.
Everywhere, always, and by all: The character of Catholic teaching
Fr. Mac Stewart reviews two volumes in patristics, concerned especially with the character of Catholic doctrine.
The limits of self-awareness
“Self-awareness” has become something of a cultural phenomenon of late. Yet for all its benefits, there are limits to what it can achieve.
An elusive joy at Easter
Maybe it's just me, but Easter joy has been harder to come by this year.
The deterioration of nature: on the running out of time
Oceans of ink have been spilled on the subject of time’s sanctification according to the Church’s calendar, and, certainly, conforming one’s life to the calendar, observing feasts and fasts and seasons, affords... Read More...