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Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 16 May 2008

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The Theatre of the Transcendent

Howells was central to the Oxbridge Anglican aesthetic: a supreme manipulator of the theatre of transcendent ceremonial and dignified nostalgia that the Church of England does like no one else.

Michael White ‘The Sorrow That Sounds Like Heaven’, an article on the centenary of Herbert Howells in The Independent On Sunday, 11 October 1992

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Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 16 May 2008

Anglican Roots : 664 The Synod of Whitby


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We are looking at the origins and history of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion, to understand better where we have come from so as to understand better where it is that God wants us to be. As part of this process we will look at eight dates, four movements and four significant inheritances from the 1600+ year history of the CofE: the dates may not always be the most obvious, but each date, perversely chosen by me, has some lasting significance for the way the CofE/AC might be today.1 Continue Reading »



This is part of a series of posts. Others in the series are:—
  1. Anglican Roots / Anglican Routes
  2. Anglican Roots : Four justifications for the exercise
  3. Anglican Roots : 664 The Synod of Whitby
  4. Anglican Roots : 1215 Magna Carta
  5. Anglican Roots : Movement 1 / The Benedictines
  6. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 1
  7. Anglican Roots : The Reformation
  8. Anglican Roots : 1534 Henry, Supreme Head
  9. Anglican Roots : 1593 Richard Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity
  10. Anglican Roots : Movement 2
  11. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 2
  12. Anglican Roots : 1604 The Hampton Court Conference
  13. Anglican Roots : 1662 The Act of Uniformity and the Book of Common Prayer
  14. Anglican Roots : Movement 3
  15. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 3
  16. Anglican Roots : 1784 Samuel Seabury consecrated first American bishop
  17. Anglican Roots : 1888 The Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral
  18. Anglican Roots : Movement 4
  19. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 4

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  1. If you need some historical context for these dates, then look at Ed Friedlander’s Anglican Timeline, published by the Anglican Society of St Justus, which is useful, eccentric and has an unacknowledged debt to David Edwards’s Christian England (London : Fount, 1989; combined ed. with new prefaces; originally published in 3 vols 1981, 1983, 1984). [↩]

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