Tradition and Context: Friends or Enemies?

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The Revd Prof John Kater explores the relationship between tradition and context in Anglicanism.

I grew up in Virginia, the oldest British colony in North America, where the Church of England was the established church for almost two centuries. I attended theological college and was ordained in the Diocese of New York, which was the other centre of the Anglican presence in North America. And I attended a seminary that prided itself on teaching Americans how to be Anglicans. It drilled into us the idea that there was an Anglican way to do everything: how to perform a baptism, how to celebrate the Eucharist, how to conduct a funeral. When I graduated from seminary, I knew I might not know how to do everything a priest is called upon to do, but I knew what an Anglican was!

And then something happened:  Continue reading Tradition and Context: Friends or Enemies?

Ignatian Spirituality 聖依納爵式的靈修體驗

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靈修:尋求進深與上帝的關係                              梁秀珊牧師

自從開始閱讀靈修課本及實踐靈修操練後,一直也期望進深與上帝的關係,經歷上帝就是那位「叩門就給人開門」的主。 Continue reading Ignatian Spirituality 聖依納爵式的靈修體驗

Reformation Prayers

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Reformation of Prayerbooks: The Humanist Transformation of Early Modern Piety in Germany and England

Author: Chaoluan Kao
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
By Dr Jim West, Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Reformation Studies at Ming Hua

In this book Chaoluan Kao looks at popular piety at the time of the European Reformations through the study of 16th and 17th century Protestant prayer books. Continue reading Reformation Prayers

The Passion Story

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The Most Reverend Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop Emeritus of Wales, reflects on the different perspectives of the four Gospel writers.

The four Gospels give us four different accounts of the Passion of Jesus. Each Gospel writer not only gives his own account of the events leading up to the death of Jesus, so that the details are not the same in each story, but they also see the event of the Passion in their own particular way, bringing their own insight to bear on it. In a real sense, there is not, therefore, just one account of the Passion of Jesus, but four of them. Continue reading The Passion Story