Homily: “On Resting in God”
Offered by Father Matthew Dallman for the Parish of Tazewell County, on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 9, Year A), 2017. Today’s Lesson from…
Offered by Father Matthew Dallman for the Parish of Tazewell County, on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 9, Year A), 2017. Today’s Lesson from…
By Martin Thornton PART ONE There is good reason for dividing this lecture into two unequal parts. I must first offer a brief resumé of…
By Martin Thornton[1] Contemporary theology is in confusion: which is at least to start with a proposition that nobody is likely to dispute. It is…
Delivered at Saint Paul’s, Riverside on 4 October 2015. There is an echo in the Gospel lesson from the Old Testament lesson. We hear, in the…
Delivered on Trinity Sunday, 31 May 2015, at Saint Paul’s, Riverside, Illinois. [display_podcast] This past Thursday was the 8th anniversary of the death of Father John Macquarrie.…
[display_podcast] LECTURE 3 “Christology ‘From Below’” Macquarrie continues with a description of christology that is “anabatic,” which can be said to be theology about Jesus that…
For Holy Week, two thoughts on what we call today Catholic imagination, or what is also called a sacramental or eucharistic worldview. The first comes from…
“Penitence,” wrote Martin Thornton, “becomes a search for the truth of one’s vocation” (The Purple Headed Mountain, Chap. 5). Penitence can take on this character…
[from the appendix to English Spirituality: An Outline of Ascetical Theology According to the English Pastoral Tradition, rev. ed. 1986.] A Course of Study in Ascetical…
[display_podcast] LECTURE 1 “The State of Christology in the Present Age” Presiding Bishop John Allin introduces John Macquarrie to the House of Bishops’ gathering. In…