We are a group of traditionally minded Anglican bloggers who have come together in hopes of reviving the greatness of the English reformation. We follow the great minds of the English church helping people to know Jesus Christ, to faith in the Triune God and the beauty of the Anglican tradition.
We see our guiding principals in the writings of the Anglican Divines and others who have left their mark on our faith tradition. We see Anglicanism as –
historic
“We and our people — thanks be to God — follow no novel and strange religion, but that very religion which is ordained by Christ, sanctioned by the primitive and Catholic Church and approved by the consistent mind and voice of the most early Fathers.”
— Queen Elizabeth I
evangelical
“I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid scriptural rational piety than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.”
— John Wesley
reformed
“The Preachers chiefly shall take heed that they teach nothing in their preaching, which they would have the people religiously to observe and believe, but that which is agreeable to the Doctrine of the Old Testament and the New, and that which the Catholick Fathers and Ancient Bishops have gathered out of that Doctrine.”
— The Elizabethan Canons
orthodox
“As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.”
— Thomas Ken
catholic
“One Canon of Scripture which we refer to God, two Testaments, three Creeds, the first four Councils, five centuries and the succession of the Fathers in these centuries, three centuries before Constantine, two centuries after Constantine, draw the rule of our religion.”
— Lancelot Andrewes
thoughtful
“We do not suffer any man ‘to reject’ the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England ‘at his pleasure’; yet neither do we look upon them as essentials of saving faith or ‘legacies of Christ and of His Apostles’; but in a mean, as pious opinions fitted for the preservation of Unity. Neither do we oblige any man to believe them, but only not to contradict them.”
— John Bramhall
