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Posts on this site--especially quotes, media, etc--do not necessarily constitute agreement or endorsement. This blog may contain art, which may not suit all sensibilities. While most of my posting is Commonplacing, found here, my writing can be found under the “Writing, Resources, and Essays” section.

Background

Some educational background, of which has made less of what I am than the mentorship and directed reading I have enjoyed outside of academic pursuits:

• Certificate in Spiritual Direction
• Doctoral Research (ABD), English Literature
• Doctoral Research, Practical Theology
• Master of Letters, Romanticism and the Forms of Modernity
• Master of Arts, Ministry
• Continuing education in Anglican liturgics and spirituality

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Essential and Recommended Reading

Below are books & articles I consider Essential Reading (e.g., texts to which I continue to turn), just adding them as I think of it for now, but will hopefully be more filled out over time. Listing is by category, and not in a particular order.

Religion

PDF Articles and Books

• The Christian Faith, C.B. Moss: One of the essential handbooks on theology from a balanced Anglican position.

• The Caroline Liturgical Movement

• Transubstantiation and Eucharistic Presence, Terrence Nichols. Exploring a Neo-Platonic metaphysic in Eucharist.

• The Road to Unity is a collection of agreed statements of the joint Old Catholic-Orthodox Theological Commissions from 1987

• 39 Articles, B.J. Kidd: Concise early 20th Century analysis of the 39 Articles from an Anglo-Catholic perspective.

• The divine liturgy : being the order for Holy Communion historically, doctrinally and devotionally set forth in fifty portions, H. A. Luckock

• Traditional Ceremonial and Customs Connected with the Scottish Liturgy, Francis Carolus Eeles

• The Parson’s Handbook, revised and rewritten by Cyril Pocknee.

• Readiness and Decency (1946), an Anglican ceremonial manual for the celebration of the traditional Holy Communion, following the historic Western form (ad orientem) or the 18th-19th century Anglican form (North End).

  • Readiness and Decency (1961), which includes the Contemporary Catholic versus populum (facing the people) instruction.

Video

• Juris Cālītis "Spiritualiy in East and West"
  

Web Articles

Culture

• The Battle for the Body, Carl Trueman
  

  Protestant churches need to think harder than their Catholic counterparts about how to assert the practical importance of the body in Christian worship. We might start by not livestreaming services, or perhaps password-protecting them so that only the legitimately absent and not the merely lazy can have access. Physical presence in worship is important. We should also make sure that the sacraments are given a central place in public church services. If the battle for the status of the body is as much a battle for the imagination as it is for doctrine, then those physical dimensions of worship—the water, the bread, the wine—need to have their proper place.

• Why Churches Should Drop Their Online Services (PDF)
  

  Because offering church online implicitly makes embodiment elective. It presents in-person gatherings as something we can opt in or out of with little consequence. It assumes that embodiment is more of a consumer preference, like whether or not you buy hardwood floors, than a necessity, like whether or not you have shelter.

• The Liturgy of Liberalism
• Alexander Schmemann on Secularism

Anglicanism

• The Augustine Appeal
• Win Mott
  • Unto Ages of Ages: An Obituary
    

    Anglicanism may be dead, but many millions of faithful Anglicans all over the world stand firm in the Faith. The Spirit has left the corporate body, but has not left his faithful people. It is the Christian process that it is through dying and coming to life again that we enter and exist in the Body of Christ. The Spirit who notes “I make all things new” now leads us to a new way of being. ”Anglican” ceases to have meaning or Divine presence.

  • Catholic Futures
    

    Anglo-Catholics have to decide first what is crucial before educating others. This is not about nostalgia or religious etiquette. It is about commitment to Jesus Christ, as he comes to us as Word and Sacrament. The Catholic past is glorious. But the battle we are fighting is for the Catholic future. It presents the Tradition in the contemporary vernacular, because that is the only language which people speak. That doesn’t mean “trendy,” it means “clear.”

• Covenant Magazine
  • The Neoliberal Age: The Decomposition of the Self (Part 1 of 2)
  • The Neoliberal Age: The Decomposition of Anglicanism (Part 2 of 2)
• First Things
  • Is the Anglican "Reset" Truly Anglican?
• Caroline Society Rule of Life and Liturgy
• Anglican Union for the Propagation of the Gospel document on the Oratory Movement

Liturgy

• Recovering Liturgical English, J. M. Robinson
• Why is The BCP 1662 so popular all of a sudden; and why is its American child, The BCP (1928), in continuing if slow demise?
  

  The use of The BCP 1662 as the standard text and base line seems to be a real possibility for a large sector of would-be orthodox American Anglicanism and through it may come the restoration of the authentic Anglican Way as Reformed Catholicism and part of a global Family. For parishes with a solid musical tradition, the use of The BCP 1662 opens up massive possibilities of classic and modern sung services and of course with this Prayer Book comes a tremendous devotional and theological literature, together with marvelous poetry and special services (Advent Carol Service etc.).

• Confronting the 1662's Critics

Lectionary

• Why the RCL is killing churches, Matthew S.C. Olver
  

  The purpose of lectionaries, along with liturgies, creeds, and dogmatic statements, is among other things to provide for the church more concise articulations of “the fullness of saving doctrine” (to quote the Rev. David Curry’s essay on the three-year lectionary). Thus, one has to ask whether more Bible in the liturgy has actually brought about a better knowledge of the Bible and, even more importantly, a better grasp of “the fullness of saving doctrine.”

• more quotes on the historic lectionary

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