Episode 24 - The Formularies and Christian Life

About this episode

The episode discusses the historical and national approach to Christian faith and life as outlined in the Anglican Formularies.

If you want to understand some Christian denominations or churches, you will likely be pointed to a systematic theology or a confession or catechism. In short, you will be given a set of propositions to compare with other systems. Anglicanism has propositions, to be sure, but to really understand it, you have to understand the history, the unfolding of the actual, dramatic experience of the Church of England. The Anglican Formularies—The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion; The Book of Common Prayer; The Ordinal; and The Books of Homilies—are the result of this inherited, embodied, historical, approach to theology. C. Jay and Jared are back for another episode of Canterbury Trails, and today it’s the uniquely historical and national approach to Christian faith and life, as laid out in the Formularies, that they’ll be discussing, as the conclusion to their three-part series on Anglicanism 101. Anglicanism is unique in that it is a national church tradition. The goal was to keep England together in a difficult time. The Formularies was not the result of a few theologians in an ivory tower hammering out fine points of doctrine. It was a project to publish a worship book and a statement…

People in this episode

Hosts: C. Jay, Jared Lovell

Topics covered

• Anglicanism
• Christian faith
• historical theology
• worship practices
• national church tradition

Keywords

• Anglicanism
• Christian denominations
• theology
• worship
• historical approach

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Church of England

Books & works: The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, The Book of Common Prayer, The Ordinal, The Books of Homilies

Places: England

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