Martin Thornton put together an extraordinary syllabus for prayerfully studying English Spirituality, also known as the “English School of Catholic spirituality” or “Anglican spiritual patrimony.” He…
By Martin Thornton (1978) If there is a single exhortation to the faithful laity, common to all denominations through the Christian world, it is that…
Conceiving the term “Catholic” from a Thorntonian perspective means that catholicity emerges when a particular parish is seen as the whole/holy Church in microcosm. Thornton’s…
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…
1. Biography Martin Stuart Farrin Thornton lived from 1915 to 1986. He was the youngest of three boys born to Alfred Augustus Thornton and Ida…
Offered for the Parish of Tazewell County on the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 (Proper 13, Year C) Over the recent Sunday Gospel lessons, focusing…
The next step of our reissuing of Martin Thornton’s books is an extended excerpt from Prayer: A New Encounter, and it is now available. This extended excerpt…
[Note: The following essay was written for Formatio Online Journal, once published by the Ambrose Institute (of Nashotah House). It can be usefully seen as an…
In my continuing efforts to awaken public interest in this Anglican priest’s remarkable theology, I am thrilled to make available my master’s thesis on Martin Thornton.…
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…