As Anglicans, our focus on the importance and centrality of the Eucharist can often distract us from remembering that for Thomas Cranmer and the other key architects of Anglicanism, Scripture was paramount. The Eucharist is only salvific if it is received by faith in the heart of a believer whose faith is rooted in Scripture. …
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It being the third day of the Month, I began reading the appointed 17th Psalm today and ended up being reminded of the Gospel. Near the very start, the Psalm says this: "You have tested my thoughts and examined my heart in the night. You have scrutinized me and found nothing wrong. I am determined not to …
The Anglican understanding of the Eucharistic sacrifice is both Protestant and Patristic, as this article will endeavour to show. The Anglican liturgy found in the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) understands the Eucharist to be an oblation or offering only in the sense that through it we offer to the Father a "sacrifice of praise …
This is an academic essay I wrote for a course at Laidlaw College, New Zealand. It analyses how the incarnation of Christ and his atoning work are linked together in the four earliest liturgies of the Church and how those liturgies express the Eucharist to be the means by which Christ's atoning work is applied. …
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As an Evangelical, I approach the Bible as God's supreme way of revealing his truth to me, and find it to be without error; I believe that salvation involves the conscious and intentional dedication of one's life to Jesus as Lord; I affirm that we are accounted righteous before God because of our faith in …
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