The New English Bible was often one of the more daring translations in many ways, from heavy conjectural emendations in the Old Testament, through startling (and not always successful) turns of phrase everywhere. As I was reflecting on John 6 on this feast of Corpus Christi, I tracked down a vague memory that the NEB [...]
Michael Bird has drawn attention to an interesting series of posts on Darrell Pursiful’s blog, which I’d not come across before, but shall be adding to my feedreader. He discusses the separation of Eucharist and Agape, and has a lot of useful comment on the topic. He is quite right to state that:
It is universally [...]
This is cross-posted co-operatively as part of Nick Norelli’s Trinity Blogging Summit. When I volunteered, I’d intended to do all sorts of reading and thinking about the topic. When the date drew near I’d done absolutely none, and resorted to that old stand by: a stream-of-consciousness make-it-up-as-you-go-along. I hope it’s still at least semi-coherent.
Trinitarian language [...]
(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
For some people, the Church sometimes seems to be a “yesterday’s controversy preservation society”. This is especially apparent in some of the arguments over justification that are currently raging around Bishop Tom Wright. It is also true, I think, of [...]
(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
My first thoughts on the thirtieth of the articles were somewhat unhelpful: a) I couldn’t think what there was to say about it, since the point of its polemic is now history, and b) the pleasure at thinking there were [...]
(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
From time to time it can be a little hard to see exactly what point one of the articles is making, since they are, as short statements, relatively free of a discourse context. This is to some extent the [...]
(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
In a comment on the first post on the twenty-eighth article Peter Kirk said:
Do you have nothing to say about the last paragraph of this Article, which is blatantly ignored by Anglo-Catholics?
The last paragraph (to save you looking it [...]
(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
This post follows on from yesterday’s on the twenty-eighth article about the Eucharist. I don’t particularly want to get stuck in the Reformation debates, and, as I noted yesterday the development of Anglican spirituality in Eucharistic hymnody, as well [...]
(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
I take the title of this post on the first of the articles about the Eucharist from the most common translation in Anglican hymn books of one of St Thomas Aquinas’ great Eucharistic hymns. The presence of this hymn, [...]
(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
In the previous post I noted problems with defining and classifying sacraments. What I want to do here is note some elements of the Eucharist as the ritual act that for most of us, simply through regular and central experience, [...]
