About “The Purple Headed Mountain”
[From the description posted to the book’s Facebook page. Coming soon for both e-book and print.] The Purple Headed Mountain by Martin Thornton was the…
Catholic imagination
“Ode to Millicent”; a poem by Martin Thornton
Ode to Millicent Or Franciscus Redivivus By Martin Thornton (published in The Countryman, Summer 1972) I was digging up potatoes in the garden of the…
“The Diverse Riches of Prayer”
By the Rev. Dr Martin Thornton The Times (UK) 14 December 1968 The Creeds grew out of the first disciples’ confrontation with Christ, that is…
Homily: On Martin Thornton and the Eucharist
Homily delivered on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi 2014 at Saint Paul’s, Riverside, Illinois. [display_podcast] Now, it was not quite parallel to that moment that…
Ascetical theology and Catholic imagination
When we speak ascetically in the Catholic sense as Martin Thornton did — against and beyond the Anglican ascetical writers of the early 20th century…
John Macquarrie and panentheism, part 1
A former dean of Nashotah House, Robert Munday, has written a blog post that, in the course of stating his pehttp://akensidepress.com/blog/wp-admin/post.php?post=1130&action=edit&message=1rspective and feelings about the…
Announcement: Akenside Press will reissue Martin Thornton
We have an important huge announcement to make: Akenside Press will reissue Martin Thornton’s books! Akenside Press has received permission to reissue all thirteen of…
The Case for a Prologue Office of Praise
“It is not sufficient to participate regularly in the Eucharist, with its unequal stress on individuality and formalism; rather we have to be eucharistic people.…
The Person of Jesus Christ (Lecture 1 of 5) by John Macquarrie
[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…
On Catholic Anglicanism
(Note: This is a description of Catholic Anglicanism written by Father Thomas Fraser, rector of St Paul’s, Riverside, Illinois.) When we speak of “Catholic Anglicanism”…