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​​​Cultures, for as long as we have had history, have had some sense of magic. This book contends that some of it, at least, is real; it describes what that is, and why the Bible is so negative about it.
However, to say ‘magic is real’ in our contemporary culture could be very misleading. In fact, wrong. For what our culture thinks of as ‘magic’ – as vague and diffuse as that is – is likely to be very different from what was practised in the Ancient Near East (the things that modern English translations of the Old Testament call, for instance, sorcery or witchcraft) or in the Greco-Roman world (what the New Testament calls magic). It also may be very different from what is called ‘magic’ or ‘witchcraft’ in animistic or ancestor-worshipping cultures today.
This book unpacks the background and explores the implications of the biblical teaching about the supernatural. There is a supernatural world, and it contains more than just God in Trinity; but Christians should not be afraid of it.
Christian Doctrine series
The Ascension of Christ into Heaven is clearly affirmed by all the Creeds. Christ’s heavenly ministry is an orthodox truth affirmed by the church, an evangelical truth attested by the Scriptures and a devotional truth expressed in Anglican the worship and liturgy. In this short book Ed Moll surveys the New Testament teaching about the Ascension of Christ in order to give the reader confidence that this is indeed a biblical doctrine and that it can and must be proclaimed by expository preaching. He also shows how Christ’s being seated in Heaven is embedded into the worshipping life of the Anglican Church through its Formularies, the Book of Common Prayer, the 39 Articles of Religion and the Ordinal. A final section gives pointers to teaching the Ascension through expository preaching.
Christian Doctrine series
In this short and stimulating guide to the doctrine of THE PERSON OF CHRIST, Mark Smith explores the biblical witness to Jesus as both fully God and fully man. He shows how these truths were articulated and defended in the debates of the early church, and why they remain deeply relevant to the lives of Christians today.
The second half of the book then dives into the Christological content of the Anglican formularies (the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer). Here we discover how the Church of England possesses a rich storehouse of refl ection on the identity of Jesus Christ – not only as a doctrine to be understood, but as a person to be worshipped and adored.
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Rachel Ciano examines the early use of the term
‘evangelical’ during the English Reformation, long before the rise of modern Evangelicalism.
Focusing on the Henrician and Edwardian periods, Ciano highlights how ‘evangelical’ became a key identifer for reformers embracing justification by faith alone, clerical marriage, and scriptural authority. She offers a fresh perspective on the development of evangelical identity and its role in shaping England’s religious landscape in the sixteenth century.
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Recent releases
What is orthodoxy? In recent controversies in the Church of England and in the wider Anglican Communion, those who insist that the Church's traditional teaching about marriage and celibacy cannot be altered are increasingly described as 'orthodox', a claim that has been disputed on the ground that orthodoxy is defined by the great creeds and confessions of the Church, none of which mentions the subject.
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This briefing argues that orthodoxy extends well beyond what the creeds and confessions state. It is rooted in the mind of Christ which is revealed to us in Holy Scripture and encompasses every aspect of life.
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The House of Bishops’ background paper for the July 2024 meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod, LLF: Moving Forward as One Church, is based on the belief articulated by Bishop Martyn Snow in the Preface, ‘Unity matters – it really matters.’ As the word ‘one’ in the paper’s title indicates, what the bishops want is for the Church of England to remain united as one church, and they see the proposals contained in the paper as a way to achieve this.
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This little book is an important resource for anyone wanting to understand why the way forward for the Church of England proposed by the bishops is theologically untenable and what a better approach would like.
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