SYLLABUS
MC705 Anglican Ethos and Identity
Fall, 2010
Tues. 6-9pm AC???
Professor Dean Borgman
[email protected]
978-546-5146
Aim of the Course
This course aims at helping students clarify their own ecclesiastical identity through readings of
thinkers in the Anglican tradition who have shaped the broad and rather nebulous identity of
Anglicanism. (The term Anglican refers primarily to the global Anglican Communion and its
historic precedence in the Church of England and its colonial extension.) This course is for all
those interested in that global Communion… and the Episcopal/ACNA split in the U.S.
Goals of the Course
1. Students will become familiar with themes and characteristics of various perspectives
and movements in classical Anglicanism.
2. Students will be able to situate themselves amidst this variety and understand their own
personal ecclesiastical identity in respect to Anglican identity (and identities).
3. Students will gain aptitude and skills in using Anglican resources in parish ministries.
Course Format and Style
This class will proceed in seminar style, an interactive approach with in-depth reading and
discussions—in both small groups and the class at large. Sessions will include presentations
from its professor (and perhaps visiting professor[s]) along with short presentations from each
student on a particular Anglican writer or issue.
Texts of the Course
(…in order to be read. Added to these will be several handouts or downloads.)
Cyril Richardson (1953, 2006) Early Christian Fathers, Westminster John Knox Press, 400pp. I’d
like this to be one of your beloved possessions as you return frequently to those who shaped
Christian theology and church practice just after the Apostolic missionaries. Here, with
Scripture, is the basis of Anglican identity. Study for insights to ecclesial identity and
authority, the place of ordained clergy, and the centrality of the Eucharist. You won’t have to
read every page of this, but get Professor Richardson’s Introductions to, and the main themes
of, these fundamental writings. And allow this study to refine your own ecclesiology.
Richard H. Schmidt (2002) Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality,
Eerdmans, 360pp. This is not a scholarly or particularly academic text, but a good
introduction for this course with a fine introduction, followed by a compendium of brief
introductions and quotations from 29 significant figures in Anglican spirituality. These are
arranged historically. Note the Discussion Questions at end of each brief chapter and use for
your reflection and discussions you can encourage in future ministry.
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Raymond Chapman ed. (2005) Means of Grace, Hope of Glory: Five Hundred Years of Anglican
Spiritual Writing an Anthology. Canterbury Press, 288 pp. A topically- arranged anthology,
which demonstrates general distinctives and controversies of Anglican thought and practice.
In both these texts, you are dealing with an important spectrum of opinions. You need not do
more than check out chapters 6-8 as these matters, and some of the following chapters, are
covered in other courses.
Paul Avis (2008) The Identity of Anglicanism: Essentials of Anglican Ecclesiology, London: T&T
Clark, 201pp. Here us what I’d consider a clear and academic exposition from a British
centrist perspective. It should be a fitting conclusion to your reading—helping you, better to
understand Anglican ethos and to establish your Anglican identity.
Highly Recommended… (For possible extra credit)
Steven Croft, Ian Mobsby & Stephanie Spellers, eds. (2010) Ancient Faith, Future Mission, NY:
Seabury, 182pp. One editor and author, Stephanie Spellers is priest and organizer of “The
Crossing,” an emergent community based out of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, Boston. Its
Foreword is by Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori. The first introductory chapter is
by Archbishop Rowan Williams. This interesting and enlightening book describes “Fresh
Expressions” as sponsored by the Church of England and Methodist Church of England, or the
Emergent Movement as it is called in the U.S. Brian McLaren’s chapter, “One, Holy, Catholic
and Fresh?” is a generous tribute to the Anglican Communion and The Episcopal Church. Also,
a fine chapter by Phyllis Tickle.
Miranda K. Hassett (2007) Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their
African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism, Princeton Univ. Press, 295pp. Here is a more liberal
(than Radner & Turner) take on the current split in The Episcopal Church. An anthropologist,
studying at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Hassett uses her discipline to interview
members of a Southern AMiA parish under Rwanda and Ugandan Anglicans. She also includes
fairly objective analysis of recent history, especially Lambeth, 1998, to assess the relationship
between Southern Anglicans and Northern conservatives.
Philip Jenkins (2002) The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, Oxford University
Press, 270pp. The most striking feature of the global Church at this time is the shift of its
dynamic core from the Northern Hemisphere (Euro-America) to the Southern Hemisphere.
This book is a rather shocking alert to northern, ethnocentric Christians.
Peter C. Moore (1994) A Church To Believe In, Latimer Press, 192pp. [I prefer first edition.) This
easy-to-read text is just what many at our Seminary are looking for, or needing, these days—
a quick, clear introduction to Anglican identity. Peter Moore, associated with FOCUS and
Trinity School for Ministry, Ambridge, PA, is now rector of Little Trinity, Toronto. The book is
written from an Evangelical perspective and is developed around five core values of what the
author considers a comprehensive and vibrant Anglicanism: Evangelical (in experience),
Catholic (in spirit), Reformed (in doctrine), Charismatic (in ministry), and Liberal (in ethos).
Each characteristic, a chapter, begins with the portrait of an Anglican leader: Charles Simeon,
Richard Hooker, Hugh Latimer, David Watson, Phillips Brooks, and Hannah More
respectively. In conclusion the book calls for Anglican repentance and comprehensiveness.
Thomas C. Oden (2007) How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed
of Western Christianity, IVP Books, 204pp. A brilliant study of the African Fathers and what
they mean for us today. Important for Anglicans with an African connection.
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Ephraim Radner & Philip Turner (2007) The Fate of Communion: The Agony of Anglicanism and
the Future of a Global Church, Eerdmans, 306pp. This was our former concluding text—a
scholarly yet passionate assessment of the current crisis with “a bold call to holiness of life in
communion and conciliar forbearance in Christ.” This is a heady, but important, book. The
identity and ethos of the Anglican Communion, it is argued, is not magisterial nor
congregational, but conciliar. What are we to do in the present dilemma? Their answer may
not immediately please any of us.
William Wolf, ed. (1979) The Spirit of Anglicanism (Hooker, Maurice, Temple), Morehouse
Publishing, 212 pp. [This book is out of print, but may be found in the library or ordered as a
used book.] With insightful introductions to, and ample quotations from, three Anglican
giants, this book endeavors to help readers understand the nebulous identity of Anglicanism.
Course Assignments and Grading
(I am primarily interested in your growth: your character, leadership, and spiritual formation. It
is obviously difficult to grade this part of the course, but I will do my best. Of secondary
importance, but a more telling and gradable aspect of this course, is your understanding of
issues: ontologically, historically, and practically in today’s ministry. My feedback on papers will
give you a general indication on how I’m evaluating your growth and work. Average grades are
B’s; A’s indicate special involvement and growth along with excellent and extra academic
production. Feel free to talk with me about this.)
1. Your personal attendance, attention, and positive contributions to your small group and to
the whole class are very important.
(15% of final grade)
2. Personal Reflection Papers. In three chapters, write a personal journal, assuming a title such
as “Ethos and Identity: Church and Me.” Its first chapter will explain the meaning and
importance of ethos and identity, then in light of these definitions, will describe your
personal church and spiritual history (due Sep28). The second explains the impact of
readings and contents of this course in growing or changing your ecclesiastical identity (due
Oct19), and the final will explore how your identity may fit into a future church (due with
final work, last class (Dec7). Specific attention should be paid to the vision of Anglicanism and
specific themes and concepts of authors read and how these are stretching and growing you
as a man or woman of the church.
(30% of final grade)
3. Quizzes on your reading will keep us honest and prepare for good discussions.
(15% of grade)
4. Short paper on Catholic Heritage of Church of England (10% of grade)
5. Presentations and Final Paper. You will choose a topic from among those suggested and
present to, and lead discussion with, the class on the date that topic appears on the sheet
and in your Syllabus Class Schedule. Your paper is to be turned in at our final class, Dec. 7th.
(Presentation and Final Paper will count 30% of your final grade).
The following page suggests the topics in the order to be presented.
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Church Life and Characters for Research and Presentation
Date
Topic
Name
Sep 21 Significance of Irenaeus
___________________________________
Sep28
Life & Significance of Macrina (Younger)
___________________________________
Sep28
Rule & Significance Benedict
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Sep28
Significance of Gregory I, the Great
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Oct5
Life and Significance of Catherine of Siena
Medieval Piety (saints, icons, mysticism) ___________________________________
Oct5
Margery Kempe & Julian of Norwich
English Mysticism, 14-15th century
___________________________________
English Common Catholic life and piety,
14-16th c., Chaucer and other sources
___________________________________
Oct5
Nov 16 Comparisons: Luther, Zwingli, Calvin
___________________________________
Nov 16
Erasmus’ Thought, contra Luther
___________________________________
Nov 16
Life and Significance of Sir Thomas More ___________________________________
Nov 23
Lives and Significance of Thomas Cranmer,
Thomas Cartwright, & Robert Browne
___________________________________
Nov 23
Significance of Richard Hooker
___________________________________
Nov 30
Significance of the Caroline Divines
___________________________________
Nov 30 Highlights PECUSA, 1780-1980
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This Sign-Up Sheet will be passed around class during our first two sessions.
Students may be willing to take more than one topic—some topics may have to be dropped. In each
of the above, please note the context of the person’s life, and his or her motivation—as far as we can
tell. Then, remember we are, in this course, attempting to form our ecclesiastical identities and
therefore need historic help from past examples and models.
You can see I’m looking way back… and picking up on persons and issues I think may be missing in the
general teaching of church history.
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Tentative Class Schedule
Sep14
Getting Started
Introduction to Course and Initial look at Syllabus, Bibliography, Schedule and Assignments
Personal introductions: “My Ecclesiastical Identity as I see it at present…”
Discussion of Ecclesiastical Identities (Diagram 5 Church Functions: Past/Present/Future)
Discussion of Church Models and Identities
The Biblical Church or Church of the Apostles
(If time): the Patristic Church: Some in your church, especially some of its university
students, think of the liturgical church as something of a novelty. You have asked a professor
of church history to lead an adult ed session on the Early Church, how the Church took shape
just after the Apostles. Brian Chase is our visiting professor.
Assignments:
Begin work on first chapter of your personal Journal
Follow Study Guide through as much as possible of Richardson’s Early Church Fathers
Consider and choose one or more topics to research, present and write up
Sep21
Anglicanism’s Early Roots
Review of Syllabus and Assignments (Select Topics), and Feedback on first class
Discovering the ecclesiology of the Early Fathers
Presentation on Irenaeus
Assignments:
Finish (to hand in) the first chapter of your Journal
Prepare for short Quiz on Richardson (main Fathers/points of emphasis;
skim where necessary)
Sep28
The Ethos and Identity in the Ancient and Medieval Church
Turn in Journal 1; Quiz on C. Richardson’s Early Christian Fathers
Questions, further discussion of course, assignments/presentations, etc.
From Apostolic Mission to Ancient and Medieval Church
Presentations on Sts. Macrina, Benedict (Rule of) and Gregory the Great
• PP: Where do we (does this course) go from here?
Assignments:
Begin work on Ch. 2 of your personal Journal
Prepare a 2-3 page on “The Catholic heritage of the English Reformation”
Oct5
Medieval English Catholicism: 14th to 16th centuries
Sm. Grps.: “My imagined life as a Catholic Christian in 15th century England”
Presentations: Catherine of Sienna, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich
Large Group Discussion
Assignments:
Begin some notes in Journal 2
Read ahead:
Chapman’s Means of Grace Hope of Glory, Introduction
Schmidt’s Glorious Companions, Intro. & Chs. 1-3
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Oct12 READING WEEK
Use it well; journaling and reading
Oct19
Protestant Catholic Divide
Presentations on Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Erasmus and Thomas More
Small Group Discussions: half of group Catholic perspective; half Protestant
Large Group Discussion
Assignments:
Chapman’s Means of Grace: Chs. 2-6
Schmidt’s Glorious Companions, Chs. 4-7
Oct26
Varieties of English Churches and Reformation
Presentations: Cranmer, Cartwright, Browne, and Hooker
Small and Large Group Discussions on the English Reformation
Assignments:
Study as much as possible of Means of Grace Hope of Glory, esp. ch. 4
(skimming quickly chs. 8-9, as more important for other courses in this Track)
Continue reflections in Journal 2
Nov2
Oxford Movement and the Caroline Divines
Presentation on the Caroline Divines
High, Low, and Broad Church movements in Church of England
Assignment:
Prepare for Quiz on Schmidt’s Glorious Companions
Nov9 READING WEEK (Study Schmidt for quiz; read ahead,Chapman and Avis)
Nov16
Anglican Ethos and Identity (USA, Britain, the world) in 19th-20th centuries
Turn in Journal 2; Quiz on Schmidt’s Glorious Companions
Discussion of Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral, 1886, 1888 (pp. 876-877, BCP)
Discussion of (R. Hooker), F.D. Maurice, Charles Gore, Wm. Temple, and Michael Ramsey
Anglican Ethos and Identity by the mid-twentieth century
Assignment:
Complete study of Chapman’s Means of Grace and Avis (Ch. V-VIII) for quiz
Nov23
Holy Orders and Sacraments in the Anglican Church
Quiz on Chapman’s Means of Grace and Avis’ Identity of Anglicanism Ch. V- VIII
Small and large group discussions on Baptism and the Eucharist
Discussion of Holy Orders
Assignment:
Read and study as much as possible of
Paul Avis’ The Identity of Anglicanism: Essentials of Anglican Ecclesiology
Nov30
Issues facing the Anglican Communion, TEC, and ACN
Another brief Quiz covering all, especially Chs. I-IV and IX-XI of Paul Avis
Serious Discussion of Anglican Ethos and Identity
Matters of Division:
Schism and Heresy
Compassionate and Conciliar Approaches to Homosexuality
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Dec7
Reconciliation before Going Our Ways
Turn in all work
Students’ perspective on where we’ve come and where we’re headed
Professor’s Confusion and Conclusions
Prayer and Termination
Further Bibliography
Jon Alexander, ed. (1988) William Porcher Dubose: Selected Writings (Sources of American
Spirituality) Paulist Press, 336pp.
Roland Allen (1959) Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours? Moody Press, 230 pp. a remarkable
radical view of missions and challenge for the Church’s fulfilling of the Great Commission.
C. FitzSimmons Allison (1994) The Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy,
Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Pub., 197pp. Allison is a retired Bishop of North Carolina who
participated in the unusual ordination to bishop of Charles Murphy and John Rogers in
Singapore (2000) and has participated in AMiA, though remaining a retired Bishop of TEC. No
one can talk to all ages about ancient heresies—and make it relevant to our own times—like
Bishop Allison. You may question some of his theological logic, but you will enjoy and profit
from his clear and simple analyses.
Donald Armstrong, ed. (2000) Who Do You Say That I Am: Christology and the Church, Eerdmans,
159pp. Maurice, uniquely for his time, founded his theology on Christology. Here
contemporary Anglican leaders and scholars, including the former Archbishop, counter
extreme liberalism, revisionism, and the Jesus Seminar from an orthodox evangelical
perspective. This book is highly recommended further reading.
Paul Avis, (2002) Anglicanism and the Christian Church, 2nd Edition. T&T Clark, 384 pp.
Paul Avis (2008) The Identity of Anglicanism: Essentials of Anglican Ecclesiology, T & T Clark
International, 202pp. Here is the classic Anglican and Episcopal view of the church both
catholic and reformed with all its diversities. Looks at its understanding of baptism, the
Eucharist, question of women priests and bishops, ecumenical engagement and internal
conflicts.
Diana Butler Bass (1995) Standing Against the Whirlwind: Evangelical Episcopalians in
Nineteenth-Century America, Oxford Univ. Press, 288pp, $135. Here is a major historical
contribution, describing Evangelical contributions to the Episcopal church in the first century
of our existence. The story is beautifully told through the life and ministry of Ohio’s second
and great Evangelical Bishop, Charles Pettit McIlvaine.
Franklin Billerbeck, ed. (1993) Anglican-Orthodox Pilgrimage, Conciliar Press, 72pp. An earnest
invitations for distressed Anglicans to come home into the One True Church, inviting
testimonies.
John E. Booty (1981) The Godly Kingdom of Tudor England: Great Books of the English
Reformation. Morehouse Publishing Company, 272 pp.
John Booty and P.G. Stanwood, eds. (1990) John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons,
Devotions and Prayers (Classics of Western Spirituality) Paulist Press, 320 pp.
John Booty, Jonathan Knight, Stephen Sykes, eds. (
Joseph Butler (2000) The Works of Joseph Butler: Containing The Analogy of Religion, and Sixteen
Celebrated Sermons. Adamant Media Corporation, 760 pp.
Thomas K. Carroll and John Booty, eds. (1990) Jeremy Taylor: Selected Works (Classics of Western
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Spirituality) Paulist Press, 544 pp.
Michael G. Cartwright, ed (1994) The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiastical and Ecumenical of
John Howard Yoder, Eerdmans, 338pp. Here is one of the best critiques of the perspective this
course represents from the works of a dynamic, Anabaptist (Free or Believers’s Church)
scholar. It will challenge your thinking and may send you in another direction.
Ian Raymond Chapman (2006) Firmly I Believe: An Oxford Movement Reader, Canterbury Press,
184p.
Mark Chapman (2006) Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford Univ. Press, 168pp. An
important book from a fine historian. You will find here “fascinating history, theology, and
structures of Anglicanism” with attention to it diversity around the world. It becomes clear
that one of Anglicanism’s characteristics, past and present, is a debate over authority as it
holds a position somewhere between Catholicism and Protestantism.
F.L.Cross and E.A. Livingstone, eds. ( 2nd ed. 1974) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church,
Oxford Univ. Press, 1518pp. A must for students like you; essential for ordination exams.
T. Scott Daniels (2009) Seven Deadly Spirits: The Message of Revelation’s Letters to Today’s
Churches, BakerAcademic, 160pp. Fascinating reinterpretation; angels of churches as deadly
spirits, principalities and powers. This book offers suggestions for transformation.
Kortright Davis (1999) Serving with Power: Reviving the Spirit of Christian Ministry, Paulist Press,
208pp. This book would be an important read for someone who might ask, “What does
mainstream American Episcopalianism have to offer Evangelicals. Here are important
challenges for relevant, parish, servant ministry. It includes some fine quotations and
thoughts about African-American spirituality in its penultimate chapter.
W. Merlin Davis (1964) An Introduction to F.D. Maurice’s Theology Based on the first edition of The
Kingdom of God (1838) and The Faith of the Liturgy and the Doctrine of the Thirty-Nine
Articles, SPCK.
Marianne Dorman, ed. (2006) Lancelot Andrewes 1555-1626: Teacher and Preacher in the Post
Reformation English Church, Wheatmark, 420 pp.
Ian Douglas and Kwok Pui-Lan, eds. (2001) Beyond Colonial Anglicanism, Church Publishing,
376p.
Verna J. Dozier (2006) The Dream of God: A Call to Return, Seabury Classics, 114 pp.
Avery Dulles (1974) Models of the Church, Doubleday Image, 239pp. Describes the use of models
in ecclesiology and then offers five such models: The Church as Institution, Mystical
Communion, Sacrament, Herald, and Servant before discussing the Church and Eschatology
and the True Church.
Evans & Wright, eds. (1991) The Anglican Tradition: A Handbook of Sources, Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, 640 pp.
Roger Finke & Rodney Stark (2005) The Churching of America: 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in
Our Religious Economy, Rutgers Univ. Press, 347pp. Research, statistics and stories about our
country’s churches, including Episcopalian and the Black Churches often overlooked.
Emilie Griffin, ed. (2003) Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series)
Orbis Books, 144 pp.
Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger (2009) Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and
Ecumenical Introduction, BakerAcademic, 352pp. A wide ranging introduction, current and
relevant, to the doctrine of the Church. Includes chapters on role of women, worshipping and
sacramental Church, contemporary culture, missional community and social action.
Charles Hefling & Cynthia Shattuck (2008) The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A
Worldwide Survey, Oxford Univ. Press, 640pp. More for the History of Liturgy, this book
provides historical reference to most other Books for Common Prayer from 1549 on, noting
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how the first American Prayer Book differed from the British. It is based on the premise that
Anglicans do their theology through worship.
David L. Holmes (1993) A Brief History of the Episcopal Church, Trinity Press, 256pp. One of the
most concise and readable histories of the American Episcopal Church from its beginnings to
through the twentieth century. Discussions of liturgy, theology and polity with attention to
divisive issues. Provides a good sense of the ethos of the Episcopal Church.
Richard Hooker (2003) Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1004 pp.
John Jewel, An Apology of the Church of England (ed John E. Booty), Church Publishing, 157 pp.
C. S. Lewis (2001) The Weight of Glory, HarperOne; New Ed edition, 208 pp.
C. S. Lewis (2001) Mere Christianity, HarperOne; New Ed edition, 227 pp.
Diarmind MacCollough, (1998) Thomas Cranmer: A Life, Yale University Press; New Edition, 704p
F. D. Maurice (see Merlin Davis, Jeremy Morris and David Young)
Alister McGrath (1998) The SPCK Handbook of Anglican Theologians, Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, 304 pp.
Alister E. McGrath (2000) The J. I. Packer Collection, InterVarsity Press, 288 pp.
Arthur Middleton (2001) Fathers and Anglicans: The Limits of Orthodoxy, Gracewing, 320pp.
Since the English Reformation, the Anglican tradition has had an attraction and affinity with
the patristic sources. The author would have our tradition make sure today it is anchored to
our roots.
Paul Elmer Moore, Frank Leslie Cross (1935) Anglicanism: The thought and practice of the Church
of England: Illustrated from the religious literature of the 17th century, SPCK.
Hannah More (2001) The Works of Hannah More: Volume 1, Adamant Media Corporation, 567 pp.
Hannah More (2001) The Works of Hannah More: Volume 2, Adamant Media Corporation, 591 pp.
Jeremy Morris (2007) To Build Christ's Kingdom: F. D. Maurice and His Writings (Canterbury
Studies in Spiritual Theology) Canterbury Press , 148 pp.
Jeremy Morris (2005) F.D. Maurice and the Crisis of Christian Authority (Christian Theology in
Context) Oxford University Press, 250 pp.
Stephen Neill. (1978) Anglicanism, Oxford University Press, 422 pp.
T. H. L. Parker (2006) English Reformers, Westminster John Knox Press, 380 pp.
J. I. Packer (1993) Knowing God, InterVarsity Press; 1993 Ed edition, 286 pp.
J.I. Packer and R.T. Beckwith (2007) The Thirty-Nine Articles: Their Place and Use Today, Regent
College Pub., 104pp. Packer clearly describes the background and content of the Thirty-Nine
Articles as a needed Evangelical core of Anglicanism—then and now.
Charles P. Price and Louis Weil (1979) Liturgy for Living, The Church’s Teaching Series, NY:
Seabury Press, 345pp. Easily understood, excellent introduction to meaning of worship and
liturgy. The Book of Common Prayer and all its features in historical and theological context.
Robert W. Pritchard (revised, 1999) A History of the Episcopal Church, Morehouse Publishing,
343pp. This is perhaps a fully history than that of Holmes with a little more social and
historical background and institutional detail. A bit less readable than that of Holmes.
Michael Ramsey The Anglican Vision
Michael Ramsey (2004) The Anglican Spirit, edited by Dale D. Coleman, Seabury Press, 147pp.
This is a brief and significant taste of this great leader/theolgian/Archbishop’s thought and
spirituality.
Michael Ramsey (1960) An Era of Anglican Theology, Scribners, 192pp.
Mary Reath (2007) Rome & Canterbury: The Elusive Search for Unity, Roman & Littlefield
Publishers, 158pp. Few know the 500-year-history, nor all the recent effort, that have gone
into finding the unity of Christ between these two great churches. You will find here a
realistic hope for global Christian unity.
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Geoffrey Rowell et al., eds.(2004) Love’s Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness,
Oxford University Press, 832 pp.
Geoffrey Rowell, Kenneth Stevenson, Rowan Williams, eds (2004) Love’s Redeeming Work: The
Anglican Quest for Holiness, Oxford Univ. Press, 832pp. The compilers of this magnificent
work call it an Anglican Philokalia. It is also referred to an enchiridion (handbook or manual).
Here is a vast anthology of well- and little-known writings, letters, sermons, etc. from the
Reformation to present. More fitting as a text for MC504, Ascetical Theology, it may be useful
when the topic of spirituality emerges in this course. Its historical divisions and information
about Anglican thinkers will also serve this course well.
J. C. Ryle (1960) Five English Reformers, Banner of Truth; Revised Ed edition, 160 pp.
William L. Sachs (2002) The Transformation of Anglicanism: From State Church to Global
Communion, Cambridge Univ. Press, 400pp. An examination of Anglicanism’s “search for a
secure identity.” The author describes Anglicanism in contrast to Roman Catholic and
Protestant styles and emphases, showing how social, cultural and ideological factors and
contexts of the modern age have shaped the self-understanding of Anglicanism.
Dorothy L. Sayers (2004) The Mind of the Maker, Continuum International Publishing Group;
New Ed edition, 208 pp.
Secor and Gibbs (2005) The Wisdom of Richard Hooker, AuthorHouse, 216 pp.
Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Jr., ed. (1960) The Liturgical Renewal, Oxford U. Press, 160pp. Six
cogent lectures/essays by A.C. Lichtenberger, W.H.Ness, J.O. Patterson, A.C. Piepkorn,
Shepherd and T.O. Wedel on the theology, history, Protestant and Lutheran worship revival,
social and pastoral implications of the important renewal movement of the 20th century
which has reformed and unified worship in liturgical churches.
Charles Simeon, ed James M. Houston, and John R. W. Stott (2003) Evangelical Preaching: An
Anthology of Sermons by Charles Simeon, Regent College Publishing, 344 pp.
John Stott (2006) The Cross of Christ, InterVarsity Press; 20th Aniv. edition, 380 pp.
John Stott (2007) Basic Christianity, IVP Books, 179 pp.
Stephen Sykes, John Booty, Jonathan Knight (revised,1998) The Study of Anglicanism, Fortress
Press, 468 pp. First published in 1988, this reflects a quite different ethos, identity and
perspective than Radner and Turner in that it is more sociological than theological analysis
and identifies the Anglican Communion as a federation rather than a conciliar, covenantal
communion. History from the Reformation, doctrine, standards, theory and practice,
sociological analysis, and future prospects—an important book.
Barbara Brown Taylor, (1993) The Preaching Life, Cowley Publications, 174 pp.
William Temple (1942, 1976) Christianity and the Social Order, Shepheard-Walwyn, 128pp.
Hopefully someone will lead us in a discussion of this (following our consideration of F.D.
Maurice). This and our tradition hardly rivals the breath and comprehension of Catholic
Social Teaching, but this is the Archbishops vision of a post-World War II social order.
William Temple (1952) Readings in St. John's Gospel, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 412 pp.
W.H. Griffith Thomas, The Principles of Theology: An Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles, Wipf
& Stack (2005) 602pp. A solid work of Low Church Evangelical theology with tinges of
polemic against Anglo-Catholic tendencies.
Martin Thornton (1963,1986) English Spirituality: An Outline of Ascetical Theology According to
the English Pastoral Tradition, Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 330pp. For this course,
Thornton’s text will fill in what’s missing from our readings regarding knowing God
mystically and contemplative prayer.
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Phyllis Tickle (2008) The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, Grand Rapids,
MI: Baker Books, 172pp. “… about every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to
hold a giant rummage sale… (a house cleaning). A challenging introduction to the emerging
church movement.
Desmond Tutu (2000) No Future Without Forgiveness, Image, 304 pp.
William Tyndale (2004) Selected Writings: William Tyndale, Routledge; 1 edition, 144 pp.
John Wall, ed. (1981) George Herbert: The Country Parson and the Temple (Classics of Western
Spirituality) Paulist Press, 384 pp.
William J. Whalen (1958, revised 2002) Separated Brethren: A Review of Protestant, Anglican,
Eastern Orthodox & Other Religions in the United States, Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor
Publishing, 281pp. A popular book from an open Roman Catholic perspective that will offer
information you lack about other churches and religion, and the helpfulness of dialogue.
William Wilberforce (2006) A Practical View of Christianity: Personal Faith as a Call to Political
Responsibility, Hendrickson Publishers, 294 pp.
J. Robert Wright (2008) A Companion to Bede: A Reader’s Commentary on The Ecclesiastical
History of the English People, Eerdmans, 152pp. Of course it would be good to go through
Bede’s original, but that’s too much to expect. Here you will get the gist of that great book,
“the earliest history of the English Church.”
N.T. Wright, (2006) The Last Word: Scripture and the Authority of God—Getting Beyond the Bible
Wars, HarperOne, 160 pp.
N.T. Wright (2006) Evil and the Justice of God. IVP Books, 176 pp.
David Young (1992) F. D. Maurice and Unitarianism, Oxford U. Press, 326pp.
Paul F. M. Zahl (2001) 5 Women of the English Reformation. Eerdmans, 132 pp.
Paul F. M. Zahl (1998) The Collects of Thomas Cranmer. Eerdmans, 119 pp.