Introduction to Reformational Anglicanism

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This course surveys the principal historical and theological features of the Anglican tradition as rooted in the Scriptures and in the faith and practice of the historic Church, and commends the recovery and advance of that tradition for the Anglican Church today and tomorrow. This course is designed to serve as a thorough but accessible overview of Anglican identity for the benefit of both new and long experienced Anglicans. Using J. I. Packer’s book The Heritage of Anglican Theology (Crossway, 2021) as a main text, this course explores the English Reformation, Puritan theology, Richard Hooker, the Caroline Divines, and introduces and evaluates alternative traditions including the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism, among other events and figures. Taught by Dr. Benjamin Fischer, who is President of The Anglican Connection, Rector of Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church, Nampa, ID (Rocky Mountain Diocese), and a member of Greystone’s Anglican Studies Committee.

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This course surveys the principal historical and theological features of the Anglican tradition as rooted in the Scriptures and in the faith and practice of the historic Church, and commends the recovery and advance of that tradition for the Anglican Church today and tomorrow. This course is designed to serve as a thorough but accessible overview of Anglican identity for the benefit of both new and long experienced Anglicans. Using J. I. Packer’s book The Heritage of Anglican Theology (Crossway, 2021) as a main text, this course explores the English Reformation, Puritan theology, Richard Hooker, the Caroline Divines, and introduces and evaluates alternative traditions including the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism, among other events and figures. Taught by Dr. Benjamin Fischer, who is President of The Anglican Connection, Rector of Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church, Nampa, ID (Rocky Mountain Diocese), and a member of Greystone’s Anglican Studies Committee.

This course surveys the principal historical and theological features of the Anglican tradition as rooted in the Scriptures and in the faith and practice of the historic Church, and commends the recovery and advance of that tradition for the Anglican Church today and tomorrow. This course is designed to serve as a thorough but accessible overview of Anglican identity for the benefit of both new and long experienced Anglicans. Using J. I. Packer’s book The Heritage of Anglican Theology (Crossway, 2021) as a main text, this course explores the English Reformation, Puritan theology, Richard Hooker, the Caroline Divines, and introduces and evaluates alternative traditions including the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism, among other events and figures. Taught by Dr. Benjamin Fischer, who is President of The Anglican Connection, Rector of Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church, Nampa, ID (Rocky Mountain Diocese), and a member of Greystone’s Anglican Studies Committee.

Lectures

Full Course | 17 hours

A Reformed Catholic Perspective
Anglican Studies and "the Catholic Church Reformed"
Contributions of Reformed Anglicanism to the General Church

1. Pre-Reformation England
1.1 State of the English Church in the 14th Century
1.2 John Wycliffe 1.3 The Lollards

2. The English Reformation
2.1 Ad Fontes
2.2 The Body Politic
2.3 Communal and Confessional

3. The Puritans
3.1 A Tale of Two Cambridge Professors; the Emergence of the Movement
3.2 The Posture of the Puritans
3.3 Pilgrim's Progress as Puritan Paradigm

4. Richard Hooker
4.1 An Anglican Disposition
4.2 Scripture, Reason, and Tradition

5. Laudianism
5.1 Theological Consensus under James I and the Laudian response under Charles I
5.2 The Laudian Aesthetic and Theological Vision
5.3 Lasting Consequences of Laudianism

6. Rational Divinity and Revival Theology
6.1 The Enlightenment Context
6.2 Evangelical Revival
6.3 Effects of the Evangelical Revival in the Anglican Church

7. Foundations of the Episcopal Church
7.1 The Colonization of America: Four Folkways
7.2 The Founding of the Episcopal Church

8. The Oxford Movement
8.1 Impetuses for the Movement
8.2 Goals, Movers, and Tracts
8.3 Effects of the Oxford Movement on Anglicanism Today

9. Nineteenth Century Broad Church
9.1 Broad Church Theology
9.2 Poisons
9.3 Poison and Response

10. Nineteenth-Century Mission
10.1 Variety within the Global Anglican Communion
10.2 The Renewal Movement
10.3 Norms for Ecclesiastical Unity

11. Anglican Modernism and Twentieth Century Theology
11.1 The Modernist Movement
11.2 Our Contemporary Context

12. Contemporary Global Anglicanism
12.1 Contemporary Global Anglicanism