The blog of a Middle Anglican
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Divine sovereignty implies predestination and preordination, but it also implies a duty of obedience towards the sovereign God. This does not just mean obedience to his will as revealed in (say) the Ten Commandments, but also the more particular requirements he places upon each one of us. The latter sometimes going by the name of [...]
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According to tradition of royal descent, Columba was born in 521 in County Donegal, Ireland. He received a monastic education at Clonard Abbey from the Irish monk, Finnian. Subsequently he went on to found a number of Irish monasteries before falling foul of Finnian and King Diarmit; both of whom disputed his right to keep [...]
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The “saintly history” of the past few posts will resume shortly. I have been debating with a former evangelical, now an atheist, on the web, and he can’t get it out of his head that I am trying to convert him. It seems to me that evangelicals far too easily forget that conversion is the [...]
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Cyprian died in 258, seven years after Antony’s birth in 251. Antony, one of the first of the Desert Fathers, was one day in church he heard these words of Christ: “If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor, an thou shalt have treasure in heaven: [...]
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My impression is that there is something ressembling Pelagianism in present day Christianity; especially on the other side of the Atlantic. Remarks such as, “if we could all be jolly nice to one another, wouldn’t things be wonderful?” are often to be found on the internet. They are left by professed Christians, who have presumably [...]
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A project I thought I might try on this blog is a “history of the Church,” consisting of overlapping lives of the saints, starting in the first century and coming right up to the present day. I can easily imagine that such a project will be easier to pull off for some periods of church [...]
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