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Predictors of Spiritual Well-being in the Episcopal Church during the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Andrew Village, Leslie J. Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have caused both declines in psychological well-being and increases in spirituality and religious coping. This paper explores the relationships of spiritual and psychological well-being in a sample of 3,403 Anglicans from the Episcopal Church (USA) who completed an online survey in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Spiritual well-being improved more among women than
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Ecclesial Enculturation: John Westerhoff’s Appeal to Catechesis in Contemporary Theological Education Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Alex Fogleman
This article explores the appeal to catechesis in the writings of Anglican theologian and educator John Westerhoff III (1933–2022). I argue that he proposed the concept of catechesis as a way of critiquing and incorporating the streams of liberalism and neo-orthodoxy from the early and mid-twentieth century into a more comprehensive and theologically substantive approach to theological education. In
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The Next American Edition of the Book of Common Prayer Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Robert W. Prichard
The Episcopal Church has been engaged in efforts to revise its Book of Common Prayer since the mid-1990s, but a completed revision is still nowhere in sight. This essay explains the process for revision in the Episcopal Church, the working of that process leading up to the adoption of the Book of Common Prayer 1979 and the optimism about a further revision in the 1990s. It then seeks to understand
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Predictors of Perceived Changes in Psychological Wellbeing among Clergy in the USA Serving in the Episcopal Church during the 2021 Covid-19 Pandemic Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Leslie J. Francis, Andrew Village
Applying the balanced affect model of clergy psychological wellbeing, as conceptualised by the Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI) and operationalised by The Index of Balanced Affect Change (TIBACh), this study explored the impact of seven sets of variables on individual differences in perceived changes in positive affect and negative affect among 737 clergy in the USA serving in the Episcopal Church during
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Exploring the Connections between Confidence in the Digital/Online Future and Changes in Anglican Clergy Psychological Well-being during the Third Covid Lockdown in England during 2021 Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Leslie J. Francis, Andrew Village
Inspired by the objectives of the Church of England’s Living Ministry Research Project (to understand the factors that enable clergy to flourish and to understand how these factors vary according to person, background, etc.), the present analyses were designed to test the capacity of an individual differences approach to the science of clergy well-being for delivering such objectives. The specific
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The Woman between Us: Sarah Nakimu Nalwanga and the Founding of Uganda’s Anglican Tradition Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Kimeze Teketwe
There has always been a debate about the location and role of women during the persecution of Christians under Mwanga II’s first reign as Kabaka of Buganda. Kabaka is the Luganda equivalent of the English word king. The debate is partly fueled by a total absence of women from the pictures of Ugandans historically referred to as the Uganda Martyrs. This paper uses archival research to tell the story
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Cathedral Growth: How the Rest of the Church of England Can Join In: Away from Polarization and Towards a New Mixed Ecology for Growth Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Thomas Mumford
In light of current debates and historical precedent, this article rejects polarized approaches to growth in the Church of England. Instead, it points towards the significant numerical growth experienced by English cathedrals as evidence for the fruits of a mixed practice approach. Analysing the growth experienced by cathedrals in recent years, it is posed that, combined with rootedness in place and
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The Necessity of God: Modern Theology and the Church’s Witness Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Stephen Platten
The philosophical positing of the necessity of God implies that there is a responsibility placed upon the Church to remind all humankind of our contingency and to speak of God’s presence especially in times of national and international crisis. Recent experience has exposed a certain silence from the Churches and notably from their leadership – notable examples would be the Covid-19 pandemic and the
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The Open Debate on Open Communion in The Episcopal Church Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Hilary Bogert-Winkler
In May 2022, the Diocese of Northern California submitted resolution C028 to the 80th General Convention of The Episcopal Church, in which they asked for a repeal of Canon 1.17.7, which limits reception of Holy Communion to the baptized. While the resolution did not make it out of committee, it touched off a church-wide debate about the practice of communion without baptism, generally referred to as
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A Southern White Clergyman, the Freed People, and the Nineteenth-Century Episcopal Church Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Loren B. Mead, J. Michael Martinez
Reared in antebellum South Carolina, Peter Fayssoux Stevens was a typical white southerner until Reconstruction. He came of age in the 1840s and 1850s and fought for the Southern Confederacy during the Civil War. Before his military service commenced in 1861, he was ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church (PEC) of North America. After Appomattox, as Black communicants deserted white Protestant
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Dialogue or Confession? Ecumenical Responsibility and the War in Ukraine Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Keith Clements
While the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been overwhelmingly condemned by the churches of the world, the support of the Russian Orthodox Church for the war poses difficult questions to the ecumenical community: in particular, whether that church’s support for the war and the extreme nationalist policies of President Putin constitute grounds for suspending it from the World Council of Churches (WCC)
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Anglican Eucharistic Rites Today in the Light of Modern Scholarship Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Paul Bradshaw
Liturgical revision in the Anglican Communion has proceeded relatively slowly since the days of Gregory Dix. While some changes have occurred, especially in the use of modern language, in other ways most rites remain uninfluenced by changes in society and by recent advances in scholarship.
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Anglican Confirmation: an Unfinished Reform Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Colin Buchanan
Confirmation, one of the seven sacraments in Lombard’s schedule, was retained by the English Reformers, but not as a sacrament and without any distinctive quasi-sacramental grace attributed to it. It became a ceremony to complete the catechizing process for children who, having been baptized as infants, were at the age of discretion now to come to holy communion. The reformers thought that a post-baptismal
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Kenotic Ecclesiology and the Disestablishment of the Church of England under the Reign of Charles III Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Martyn Percy
Coronations in Great Britain previously offered an occasion for national civic and spiritual renewal. However, the recent crowning of Charles III threw a spotlight on some of the deepening dissonance, diversity and divisions within British society. This paper is an ‘in principle’ argument for change and development. As the clamour for constitutional reform in the United Kingdom continues, and the awkwardness
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Creation Stories: What Were the First Resource Churches? Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Jack Shepherd
This article builds on the first in the trilogy, ‘What’s in a Name? An Examination of Current Definitions of Resource Churches’, by evaluating narratives in current literature about the origins of resource churches. These will be assessed according to the criteria, highlighted through the perspective of Foucault and Arendt on origin stories, of believability in their depiction of historical events
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Updates and Reflections on the Eucharistic Prayer (EP) since the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation (IALC) Dublin Report 1995 Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Bryan Spinks
This paper revisits the 1995 IALC Dublin Statement on the Eucharist, focusing on the Eucharistic Prayer. It reviews newer insights and studies on the Eucharistic Prayer, and suggests how that broadly may impact subsequent Anglican use of ‘classical patterns’, It also puts forward suggestions and questions posed by some more recent Anglican revisions as well as revisiting some areas of the Dublin Statement
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The First Indigenous Anglican Diocese of Western Africa: Contested Legacy of the Diocese on the Niger and CMS Mission in Igboland Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Owen C. Nwokolo, Victor Counted
As Nigeria grew as an independent nation, the role of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) began to evolve, reflecting the needs of a burgeoning multi-ethnic society. This transformation is particularly evident in the Diocese on the Niger – the first indigenous Anglican diocese in Western Africa – a topic of debate within various factions of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion. These contentions
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The Bronze Serpent: Abuse, Trauma and the Lifted Healer in the Wilderness Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Fergus J. King, Isaac Poobalan
Many Christian groups and churches have been forced to recognize that they have been complicit in behaviour which has betrayed the gospel. How then is the church to address the historical reality of being an abusive healer? The image of the bronze serpent (Num. 21.4-9; 2 Kgs 18.4; Jn 3.14) offers an ambiguous image which may reveal the reality of the church as both a source of abuse and trauma as well
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Manning Clark’s Repudiation of Anglicanism and the Appeal of ‘Sentimental Humanism’ in his Quest for Grace Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-24 John A. Moses
Manning Clark is regarded as a pioneer of Australian national history. His output has been unequalled but it has provoked a vigorous division of opinions concerning its accuracy and the all-pervading thesis that Australia, to achieve its true national self-perception, must throw off the British heritage that included the baleful influence of the Anglicanism in which Clark was raised by his priest father
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The Emancipation of Christian Learning in Anglican Parishes, from the ‘Lay’ Era to Another Discipleship Era without the ‘Lay’ Tag Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-04 John Littleton
Discipleship is a key topic for the worldwide Anglican Church. Approaches to Christian learning have varied over the centuries. The time has come to liberate Christian formation, education, and training from the constraints of the clergy and laity dualistic narrative, where lay people are defined negatively as Christians who are not clergy, not ordained, and not qualified. Inequality of discipleship
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The Parish Communion Movement: The Body’s Discipleship Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Matthew Bullimore
This essay explores the corporate and social dimensions of discipleship by examining the theological vision of the Parish Communion movement of the last century. It outlines what the Parish Communion movement sought to achieve liturgically and how that was undergirded by its underlying ecclesiology. Elements of the theology underpinning the movement are examined, including its corporate Body theology
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What’s in a Name? An Examination of Current Definitions of Resource Churches Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Jack Shepherd
This article is the first in a trilogy exploring the concept of resource churches, providing a starting point to develop a comprehensive understanding of their implications for the Church of England. The scene is set by introducing the impact of this recent model of church planting, which has become widespread since the ambitious programme of church development in London in the 1990s. This opening
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‘The Whole Nature of the Child’: Children and Youth at the Lambeth Conferences Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Emily J. García
This article examines the ways the Lambeth Conference resolutions discuss children and youth. It is a contribution to the work of identifying historical Anglican theological perspectives on children. Opening with a brief definition and review of theologies of childhood, it then presents chronologically (1857–1998) and briefly analyzes the resolutions which name ‘children’ or ‘youth’; it closes with
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Birthing Waters: An Anglican View of Baptismal Regeneration Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Esteban E. Crawford
In what sense do Anglicans believe in baptismal regeneration? This article contends that according to historic Anglicanism, baptism effectually regenerates those who faithfully receive it. While this is a disputed claim even among Anglicans, it is consistent with the formularies of the Church of England, and it largely represents a predominant position held by Anglicans across the centuries. Article
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The Scholar Priest in the Church of England in the Nineteenth Century Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-24 David Jasper
The Oxford Movement in the 1830s prompted some formidable theological scholarship which profoundly affected the lives and personalities of many Oxford-educated Church of England clergymen, not a few of whom combined deeply scholarly lives with successful parish ministries. This essay examines the lives of two such men, Canon T.F. Simmons, a parish priest in Yorkshire for some thirty years, and Bishop
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‘Inoculated with the Ways of Anglicans’: Representing Indigenous Participation in Canadian Synodality, 1866 Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Terry M. Brown, Jonathan S. Lofft
The unprecedented participation by two Ojibwe-speaking Anishinabek lay delegates in the 1866 meeting of the Electoral Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto garnered a brief flurry of contemporary journalistic coverage across a networked imperial and colonial press. In the most vivid reportage, the two delegates were dehumanized, reduced to the status of ‘Indian nags … becoming inoculated with the
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Response to Bishop Keith Joseph’s ‘The Challenge of Gafcon to the Unity of the Anglican Communion’ Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Richard Condie
This is a response by Bishop Richard Condie, the Bishop of Tasmania and Chairman of Gafcon Australia, to the article by Bishop Keith Joseph (the Bishop of North Queensland, Australia) published in the Journal of Anglican Studies in May 2022. It engages with the nature and limits of unity in the Anglican Church before discussing the unique context of the Jerusalem Declaration and recent developments
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‘Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light’: Re-thinking Advent Themes of Darkness with Gregory of Nyssa Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Gabrielle Thomas
This essay addresses challenges that emerged during Advent through recent experience of lecturing at Berkeley Divinity School, the Episcopal Seminary at Yale. For many of my students, Advent 2020 presented particular challenges since they found that the recurring utilization of ‘darkness’ as a metaphor for sin and death did not sit easily with their commitment to anti-racist thought and practice. This
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Giving Up on the Church of England in the Time of Pandemic: Individual Differences in Responses of Non-ministering Members to Online Worship and Offline Services Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Andrew Village, Leslie J. Francis
This study draws on data provided to the Covid-19 & Church-21 Survey by 826 ‘non-ministering’ Anglicans living in England in order to explore why some people gave up worshipping online or in church during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2021. Nearly a quarter of the participants had given up online worship, attending offline services in church, or both: 15 per cent had given up on online worship, 13 per cent
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The Challenge of Gafcon to the Unity of the Anglican Communion Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Keith Joseph
Since 2008 the Global Anglican Futures Conference (Gafcon) has emerged as a powerful force within the Anglican Communion. It had the potential to reform some of the issues facing the Anglican Communion. However, its Jerusalem Declaration has become a standard of Anglican orthodoxy to the exclusion of many orthodox Anglicans who cannot assent to its extra-doctrinal material. This lends Gafcon to schismatic
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Bishop Broughton and his Colonial Visitation in 1845 Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Robert Willson
This article examines an account by William Grant Broughton, describing a journey made in 1845 to the south of his Diocese of Australia. It was published by English supporters, describing the impossibly large area of his responsibility and pleading for a subdivision of his diocese. Broughton wanted to overcome ignorance of Australia, to thank his supporters for money and manpower, and to demonstrate
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Alan Richardson’s Biblical Theology, ‘Faith Principle’ and Attempts to Protect Public Faith Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Terry Root
Nineteenth-century liberalism within the Church of England together with the opposition of Anglo-Catholic and Evangelical wings of the church created a confusing and volatile religious environment for many of its adherents. In the twentieth-century English modernism, adding scientific naturalism to the mix, rejected Christian creedal assertions which were seen as mere dogmatism. As the century progressed
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The Agnus Dei: Towards a Missional Dimension Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Ron Browning
As a devotional part of the eucharistic liturgy, the Agnus Dei also carries a missional aspect. Exegeting the verse Jn 1.29 (‘Behold the Lamb of God…’) two major theories of the atonement are seen to be involved and are applicable to the meaning of the Agnus Dei. These two theories of the atonement (ransom and substitutionary) in their relationship to each other are noted, and a primary emphasis on
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Christian Formation and Education in Episcopal Boarding Schools: Historical Origins, Contemporary Context, and a Proposal for Reform Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Emma McDonald
This article will consider James K.A. Smith’s proposal for Christian educational reform by examining the historical animating principles and the contemporary embodied practices of Episcopal boarding schools in the United States. Drawing on historical accounts of the early years of Episcopal boarding schools, this paper will surface resonances between Smith’s vision for Christian education and the hopes
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My Training Incumbent Is Doing a Good Job: An Empirical Investigation of Personal, Religious and Psychological Factors Shaping Curates’ Evaluation of their Training Incumbent within the Anglican Church in England and Wales Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Greg Smith, Leslie J. Francis
Drawing on detailed questionnaire data (including personal, religious and psychological factors) provided by 416 pairs of curates and training incumbents, the present study addresses two core research questions. The first research question develops and tests a new measure: the Smith Attitude toward Training Incumbents Scale (SATIS). The second research question explores the influence of personal, religious
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A Healthier Anthropology with a Richer View of the Soul: Responding to the Theological Anthropology of N.T. Wright and M.B. Thompson Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-20 M.J. Churchouse
Two influential Anglican scholars, N.T. Wright and M.B. Thompson, have concurrently sought to challenge the Church and the Academy to reconsider their long-held belief in the immaterial soul, and to encourage them to think more biblically about their theological anthropology. Identifying the reasons for, and recognizing the implications of, the challenge, this article responds by addressing the contentions
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Read, Mark, Learn and Inwardly Digest: The Prayer Book and Private Devotion in Prayer Book Commentaries from Sparrow to Mant Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Benjamin Crosby
Between the Restoration and the rise of the Oxford Movement, a burgeoning literature of commentaries upon the Book of Common Prayer were produced and circulated in England. This article traces the emergence and development of this little-studied commentary tradition in order to explore the role of the Book of Common Prayer in private devotion. It groups the literature into three primary categories
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Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) and the Challenges of Missionary Diocese Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-17 George C. Asadu
For some years now the Anglican Church in Nigeria has been contending with the problems arising from the creation of missionary dioceses. Many retreats for the bishops in the missionary dioceses have been held from late 2000 to date, in an effort to find solutions to the problems, yet the problems have continued unabated. The situation provokes concern and interest in public discourse and intellectual
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Bruce Kaye, Colonial Religion: Conflict and Change in Church and State (Adelaide: ATF Theology, 2020), pp. 217. ISBN 9781925612936. Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Bradly S. Billings
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An Anglican Odyssey: The Ecumenical Vision of Canon David John Garland (1864–1939) OBE and his Hidden Christian Agenda for Anzac Day Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-26 John A. Moses
There is still much unclear about the nature of the origins of Australia’s most respected and hallowed national day, namely Anzac Day, 25 April, and about who was primarily responsible for instituting a day of solemn commemoration for the fallen in the Great War of 1914–18. Much has been written by mostly unqualified would-be ‘authorities’ that is either patently false, uninformed or hostile to the
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Ellen F. Davis , Opening Israel’s Scriptures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 451. ISBN: 9780190948948 Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Cole William Hartin
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Assessing the Church of England’s Leadership Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Listening to the Voice of Rural Lay People Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-08 Ursula McKenna
The aim of the present study is to analyse the qualitative text written on the back page of a quantitative survey concerned with the Church of England’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Of the 1460 rural lay people in England who took part in the Coronavirus, Church & You survey, 501 wrote further (sometimes detailed) comments on the back page (34 per cent participation rate). This study analyses
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William Gore: A Puseyite in Parramatta Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Robert Willson
This article examines the way one nineteenth-century clergyman of the Church of England in Australia, William Gore, was influenced by the Oxford Movement. Gore was the incumbent of the parish of All Saints Church, North Parramatta in Sydney. He implemented liturgical practices valued by the Oxford Movement, including wearing a surplice to preach rather than a Geneva gown, reading the Offertory sentences
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Anglican Church of Southern Africa: Safe and Inclusive Church Commission Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-20 Rosalie Manning, Colette Saldanha, Claire Phelps, Chris Ahrends, Peter Lee
The process of creating a Safe and Inclusive Church (SIC) Commission within the Anglican Church of the Province of SouthernAfrica (ACSA) is not unique in the Communion. This article seeks to explore ACSA’s specific journey to date, with a view to engaging the Communion in a learning partnership. While some of the process of establishing this ministry may be unique, there are places of commonality as
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The Future of Anglican Studies Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Joy Ann McDougall, Lizette Larson-Miller, Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Kwok Pui-lan, Martyn Percy, Scott MacDougall, Stephen Fowl, Mark David Chapman
The papers in this forum offer an interdisciplinary assessment of the state of the field of Anglican Studies and perspectives on future trajectories. The first three papers, on liturgy, history, and world Anglicanism, offer an assessment of the respective state of these areas of Anglican Studies. The second set, on theology, sociology of religion, and biblical studies, stake out positions on how these
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Child Sexual Abuse, Integrity Systems and the Anglican Church: Truth, Justice and Love Journal of Anglican Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-14 Virginia Miller, Seumas Miller
This article concerns child sexual abuse in the Anglican Church of Australia and the Church of England and, in particular, an integrity system to combat this problem and the ethical problems it gives rise to. The article relies on the findings of various commissions of inquiry to determine the nature and extent of child sexual abuse in the Anglican Church. The two salient ethical problems identified