Biographies of common prayer · Part 2
The Collect for Purity: hearts open before God
The Collect for Purity carries a medieval prayer into Anglican common worship, asking the Holy Spirit to cleanse our hearts for love and praise.
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Biographies of common prayer · Part 1
The collect for the Second Sunday in Advent: learning to hope
The Second Sunday in Advent’s collect asks God to make our hearing and reading of Scripture fruitful in enduring hope, grounded in his faithfulness in Christ.
Read essayThe work of receiving
Early Anglican divines argued that reforming worship, doctrine, and ministry could serve the faith received through Scripture and the ancient Church.
Read essayThe humanity Christ assumed
An Anglican case that women can represent Christ in ordained ministry through shared humanity and ecclesial commission, taking Scripture, tradition, and communion seriously.
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Eusebius and Augustine expose the risks of giving rulers sacred legitimacy, and ask how the Church can keep its witness free to critique political power.
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Received for the life of the world
Anglican worship gathers and forms the Church through Word, prayer, sacrament, and ordered ministry so that the whole baptized people may speak, embody, and serve the Gospel in the world.
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A people ordered for faithfulness
Anglicanism receives bishops, priests, and deacons as ordered ministries serving the whole baptized people through apostolic continuity, communion, accountability, and mission.
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The grace we receive
Anglican sacramental life receives Baptism and Holy Communion as gifts instituted by Christ, through which God joins us to Christ, nourishes his Church, and forms a life of holiness, hospitality, and love.
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The faith we pray
Anglicanism characteristically receives, expresses, and inhabits its theology through common, liturgical prayer that enacts the received faith and forms the Church’s loves.
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Scripture in the Church
Anglicanism receives Holy Scripture as the first and norming authority for the Church’s faith, read in the worship, doctrine, ministry, and common life of the Church.
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The faith once received
Anglicanism is not best understood as a novel theological system, a denominational compromise, or a loose permission structure for private preference, but as a disciplined way of receiving and practicing the apostolic and catholic faith.
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Many Christians have learned to want Christ while treating the Church as optional. Yet Christ gathers a people, not isolated believers, and gives them Scripture, fellowship, authority, worship, and the sacraments as ordinary means of grace.
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