Alexander Blair Cain

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The results of an online theologian quiz that show Maximus the Confessor and Karl Barth as the top results
The first page of a chapter titled “The Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism” It says: We are approaching the stage in the evolution of Anglican theology when theologians began to recognize that England is only part of the world and to think in terms that are essentially global. It took Anglican theologians, I may say, quite some time to get abreast of that insight. But the evangelicals began to found missionary societies, and out of transcultural mission work came, increasingly, an awareness of the need to express Anglicanism in global terms. In this chapter, however, we are still in England, because we are only at the beginning of the nineteenth century, which is before any sort of creative or critical theology was being done by Anglicans outside England. We have come to the Oxford movement, whose story is set in the milieu of the slow movement of church reform in England. My mission in this chapter is to make sure you are as sympathetic to leaders of the Oxford movement and the Catholic revival within Anglicanism as you are to the evangelicals. I do not mean by "sympathetic" that you should agree with them as robustly. But they were men thoroughly sincere in seeking to please God, serve God, and proclaim what they took to be the truth of God. If you read evangelical writers like J. C. Ryle--good, great, and deservedly famous as he is—you will find that because Ryle is convinced
Results of an Anglican quiz that say “Your Title Is: A Biblically Literate Puseyite”
Which 19th Century Bishop Are You? It's a Tie! You tied between 3 bishops. Read their profiles and choose the one that best fits you:
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