Anglican Communion
The Anglican Communion Office is the permanent secretariat of the Anglican Communion, a worldwide network of Anglican churches with 42 member provinces across more than 165 countries. It connects member churches, supports the Communion's governing Instruments, and promotes global mission, Christian unity, and advocacy.www.anglicancommunion.org
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Sep 13, 2026
David CrowtherHOST
James' strategy had changed.
David CrowtherHOST
From the autumn of 1686, he no longer felt he had any chance of working closely with the Anglican Church or its bishops.
David CrowtherHOST
the blizzard of invective from the pulpit, his repeated orders to restrain and limit preaching, the refusal of blokes like Henry Compton to rein their clergy in, and the bishop's defiance over his attempt to discipline James Sharp, the public reaction, processions and Pope burnings around November 5th, all this stuff.
David CrowtherHOST
had convinced him he couldn't work closely with them.
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David CrowtherHOST
The response from Taurus and Anglicans was not enthusiastic.
David CrowtherHOST
There were some addresses, and Sunderland and James pulled strings in the purged town corporations to, you know, encourage nice, useful addresses.
David CrowtherHOST
But even most of those had a sting in the tail by concentrating on the bit of the Declaration where James promised to defend the rights of the Anglican Church.
David CrowtherHOST
The Anglican clergy in particular overwhelmingly focused on just that bit and managed not to mention the indulgence at all, which is a hoot.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
But still more striking is the difference between the two views of intelligence, when we see that culture not only makes a quite disinterested choice of the machinery proper to carry us towards sweetness and light, and to make reason and the will of God prevail, but by even this machinery does not hold stiffly and blindly, and easily passes on beyond it to that for the sake of which it chose it.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
For instance, culture leads us to think that the ends of human perfection might be best served by establishing, that is, by bringing into contact with the main current of the national life, in Ireland, the Roman Catholic and the Presbyterian churches, along with the Anglican church, and in England, a Presbyterian or congregational church of like rank and status with our Episcopalian one.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
It leads us to think that we should really in this way be working to make reason and the will of God prevail, because we should be making Roman Catholics better citizens, and nonconformists, nay, and churchmen along with them, larger-minded and more complete men.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
But undoubtedly there are great difficulties in such a plan as this, and the plan is not one which looks very likely to be adopted.
Gregory PineGUEST
Um, so first thought is, um, there's been a joint declaration of the Catholic Church and the comparable Lutheran body, you know, like 30 years ago, on justification, and so I think there's, there's a lot more made of difference than need be made of difference.
Gregory PineGUEST
Also, the Protestant tradition is not united on the nature of grace, so, you know, you got Lutherans and Reformed and all manner of mainline Protestants who are in some way, shape, or form indebted to those tradition, and then, you know, like the Anglican Communion has its own distinct kind of, uh, inquiry into this particular theme.
Gregory PineGUEST
Basic understanding, Catholic understanding of grace is that it's a created share in the life of God.
Gregory PineGUEST
So what it does is it's like a habit of our whole being that makes it such that we are healed and grown so as to enter into relationship with God.
SimeonHOST
It doesn't matter what name you put on the church.
SimeonHOST
If it's the Baptist church, the Presbyterian church, the Catholic church, the Anglican church, you're not saved through a church.
SimeonHOST
You're not saved through a pastor or a priest or a religious minister or a religious guru.
SimeonHOST
You get saved by the grace of God.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
But still more striking is the difference between the two views of intelligence, when we see that culture not only makes a quite disinterested choice of the machinery proper to carry us towards sweetness and light, and to make reason and the will of God prevail, but by even this machinery does not hold stiffly and blindly, and easily passes on beyond it to that for the sake of which it chose it.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
For instance, culture leads us to think that the ends of human perfection might be best served by establishing, that is, by bringing into contact with the main current of the national life, in Ireland, the Roman Catholic and the Presbyterian churches, along with the Anglican church, and in England, a Presbyterian or Congregational church of like rank and status with our Episcopalian one.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
It leads us to think that we should really in this way be working to make reason and the will of God prevail because we should be making Roman Catholics better citizens and non-conformists, nay, and churchmen along with them, larger-minded and more complete men.
Nicole LeeNARRATOR
But undoubtedly there are great difficulties in such a plan as this and the plan is not one which looks very likely to be adopted.
Charles BlakemoreNARRATOR
said Cosgrave.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Yes, I am a member of the persecuted Anglican Church.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Then how about those texts which seem to reckon a sin that which you would set down as a mere trivial dereliction? Yes, but in one place the word sorcerers comes in the same sentence, doesn't it? That seems to me to give the keynote.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Consider.
Greg MelleuishGUEST
Her mother was told by the, uh, priest they could not have a Catholic marriage, that they had to be married behind the altar, as it was referred to in those days.
Greg MelleuishGUEST
And, uh, her mother basically told, feisty woman, told the priest where he could go, and they got married in an Anglican church.
Greg MelleuishGUEST
So there's that interesting background, which may explain why from her own personal story she doesn't like religious cultural conflict.
James CarltonHOST
Well, then why, I wonder, Renee Barker, the drawing on the Judeo-Christian heritage of Australia?
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Greg MelleuishGUEST
He came from Malaya.
Greg MelleuishGUEST
Uh, he was Hindu.
Greg MelleuishGUEST
But he, he used to also happily go to a, uh, Anglican church.
Greg MelleuishGUEST
He, he didn't see any contradiction in doing that.
Anthony SteinHOST
And thus their sacraments would be valid and all the rest.
Anthony SteinHOST
But that kind of got settled anyway once the Anglican Church started ordaining women and then consecrating women as bishops
speaker_1ADVERTISER
because
Anthony SteinHOST
they can't be priests or bishops.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Moreover, Puritan beliefs are enshrined in the Savoy Declaration, the confession of faith held by the Congregationalist churches.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Some Puritan ideals, including the formal rejection of Roman Catholicism, were incorporated into the doctrines of the Church of England, the mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Terminology In the 17th century, the word Puritan was a term applied not to just one group, but to many.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Historians still debate a precise definition of Puritanism.
JacobGUEST
Yeah.
JacobGUEST
Well, creating a whole new imagination for what pastoral ministry is, what it means to be a priest in the Anglican Church, what it means to do theology well.
JacobGUEST
All of that was really formed in really interesting and unexpected ways when I finally got to Regent.
JacobGUEST
So I guess the moral of the story is you just don't know how God is going to use the particular context and the relationships that you make with individuals once you get in the building and you meet those profs that you didn't even hear on the podcast.
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