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‘The Snake Bites the Barefoot’ Anglicans in El Salvador work for reconciliation amid widespread violence. Diego Brito/Flickr photo
By Matthew Townsend tion in Christ to all people regardless of ues of child and family welfare. “With class, focusing on evangelism, educa - this work we contribute, along with the ore than 6,600 murders in tion, and justice. On the ground, this state, to the process of building a 2016. Thirty people killed in mission translates into a great deal of healthier, more orderly, and more well- Ma 24-hour period in March, work that is often uneasy or unsafe. formed society.” including public gunfire exchanges be - “The specific or parochial plan that Last year, the diocese joined with tween gangs and police. Women shot each priest prepares every year in - Reformed, Baptist, and Lutheran lead - on the street. A hippopotamus savagely cludes activities, objectives, methods, ers to pursue reconciliation through beaten to death in the national zoo in and results,” he told TLC in this program. An international February. Spanish. “But beyond those conference met at the start of The headlines about life in El Sal - plans of our human preparing 2016, and the year ended with vador are grim, with publications like is God’s plan, in which he a visit from the Rev. Michael the Washington Post and Los Angeles sends us as his instruments to Lapsley, an Anglican priest Times providing frequent coverage of work with people who are the from South Africa and founder the country’s escalating violence. Last most suffering, most dispos - of the Institute for Healing of year, El Salvador’s murder rate was the sessed, and most vulnerable — Memories. Lapsley, who stood highest in the Western Hemisphere, even in risky conditions for the Alvarado against Apartheid, developed prompting concern that the Central people and for ourselves.” that ministry of healing and American country of 6 million was re - Much of this work involves collabo - reconciliation after he received a letter turning to the kind of violence seen in rating with institutions inside and out - bomb that cost both of his hands and its civil war period. side of El Salvador. Alvarado said the sight in one eye. During the bloody era between 1980 churches in his diocese, which is part Alvarado said Lapsley’s visit pro - to 1992, 75,000 El Salvadorians lost of the Anglican Church in Central vided opportunities for public conver - their lives — including Oscar Romero, America, serve on a Citizen Security sations, university conferences, and in - the assassinated Roman Catholic arch - Council with state institutions and terviews in mass media. “The next step bishop whose efforts to halt the vio - civic organizations. “The Citizen Se - for this year is to introduce his model lence are acknowledged through a feast curity Council is a space where discus - of Healing of Memories to a first group day and a statue at Westminster Abbey. sion is had around plans, measures, of leaders and begin training facilita - As in 1980, churches in today’s El and direct actions that prevent and di - tors in the methods,with which we will Salvador are trying to offer an alterna - minish the violence that’s plaguing our kick off a process that will positively tive to violence and vengeance in a country,” he said. impact the population, starting in our country with surging gang member - One example of these measures is own communities,” he said. ship and a massive outflow of profes - the Episcopal Dignity and Justice Pro - The Episcopal Dignity and Justice sionals trying to seek safety in other gram, an effort in partnership with St. Program began in August 25. In addi - countries. Francis Community Services of tion to supporting efforts at reconcili - According to the Rt. Rev. David Al - Kansas. Alvarado said the program ation and healing, the program offers varado, this work begins with the An - works with communities to encourage legal assistance to those being dis - glican Church of El Salvador’s mission a “culture of peace” and harmonious placed by the violence, especially with to carry the good news of God’s salva - coexistence, while also fortifying val - the right of asylum. “It also helps fam -
4 THe LIVInG CHURCH • April 9, 2017 ilies and individuals leave the country shouldn’t visit because of the risk it bridge, where he is now an honorary if necessary, in order to safeguard free - represents. fellow, and then at Lincoln College, dom and human life,” he said. “Concretely, I must say that while Oxford. The program is working directly the El Salvadorian state is experiencing After his studies, he returned to Bu - with four communities comprising 160 great violence, it’s worth clarifying that rundi and joined the civil service, be - families, addressing migration, human that violence is especially affecting coming chief of staff to President Jean- trafficking, childcare, peace, and the people who live in places of poverty Baptiste Bagaza. After a military coup environment. It addresses the entre - and extreme poverty. That is, those on deposed President Bagaza, Ntahoturi preneurial needs of women and youth the margins. was jailed from 1987 to 1990. In the in El Salvador, where risk of violence is “And paraphrasing the words of 1990s he became provincial secretary high. “We are aware of the need for op - Blessed Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo of the Anglican Church of Burundi portunities and livelihoods for people,” Romero, the snake always bites the and was consecrated in 1997. the bishop said. barefoot.” Archbishop Ntahoturi speaks Eng - Another far-reaching initiative with lish, French, Kirundi, and Swahili, and church involvement is the Program of plans to learn Italian. Integral Health, which offers 28 com - Archbishop Ntahoturi “I am personally delighted that munities about 3,000 medical and den - Called to Rome Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi has tal consultations each year. Programs agreed to take up the joint post of focusing on food security and financial The Most Rev. Bernard Ntahoturi, for - Archbishop’s Representative to the education work inside of 18 communi - mer Archbishop of the Anglican Holy See and director of the Anglican ties, offering microfinance and busi - Church of Burundi, will be the repre - Centre in Rome,” said Archbishop ness education “in order to lessen ex - sentative of the Archbishop of Canter - Justin Welby. “The appointment of a treme poverty and achieve a dignified bury to the Holy See and director of former primate to this post for the sec - life.” That program serves about 6,000 the Anglican Centre in Rome. ond time running demonstrates the people each year. In September he will succeed Arch - importance I attach to developing the The church is very busy, but it is also bishop David Moxon, who will retire increasingly close relationship between working with a limited number of in June. the Anglican Communion and the Ro - priests — about a dozen for 20 parishes Archbishop Ntahoturi, who led the man Catholic Church.” — and, in some cases, shrinking con - Burundian church from 2005 until ACNS gregations. Alvarado mentioned the 2016, has been active in seeking peace case of Holy Trinity in San Martin, San in war-torn Burundi and the great Salvador, which has lost about 50 per - Lakes region of Africa. He has repre - Sudan’s New Province cent of its congregation to emigration. sented Protestant churches of Burundi These conditions make collabora - during negotiations that helped bring With the partition of Sudan in 2011 tion with churches and entities outside peace to Burundi. He also has exten - following almost 50 years of continu - of El Salvador essential, though fright - sive ecumenical experience and is ous civil war between the mainly Mus - ening headlines make that task even chairman of the Inter-Anglican Stand - lim north and mainly Christian south, harder. The bishop said news of vio - ing Committee on Unity, Faith, and the Anglican church in Sudan will on lence should not keep American Order. July 30 become a province of the An - Christians from helping. “To our He serves on the Living Church glican Communion in its own right. brothers in the United States and other Foundation, publisher of TLC. Sudan has been an internal province countries: we ask you to accompany “I am looking forward to continuing of the Anglican Church of South Su - us, to support us in the search for light the work of the dedicated men who dan and Sudan. and hope for a people that suffer the have held this post before me,” Arch - The Archbishop of Canterbury will torments of poverty, of physical and bishop Ntahoturi said. “I would like to travel to Sudan for the inauguration on structural violence,” he said. strengthen those areas, especially in July 30. Alvarado explained that this accom - peace-building, where the Anglican The new province must cope with paniment requires not only setting Church and the Roman Catholic living under a regime that makes life aside fears but also understanding Church can work together for a com - very difficult for religious minorities. who, exactly, is at risk. mon witness.” This is how the human rights watch - “We are a people of faith; in conse - Born in 1948, Ntahoturi grew up in dog Open Doors describes it: “Under quence, we have to put our fears into a small village in southern Burundi, the authoritarian rule of [Omar] al- the hands of God, who is our principal the son of a poor farming family. After Bashir and his party, there is no true protector,” he said. “I believe that the training at Bishop Tucker Theological rule of law in Sudan; freedom of ex - news inside and outside of El Salvador College in Mukono, Uganda, he was pression has been almost entirely cur - sows or inculcates not only fear, but ordained in 1973. He came to England tailed.” also terror that for many people in the to further his theological training at The Sudanese church’s application U.S. this country is a place that they Ridley Hall and St. John’s in Cam - (Continued on next page)
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6 THe LIVInG CHURCH • April 9, 2017 to live out the message of Christ, the his endeavors to deal with the toxic sit - Arab Bishop message of love,” Archbishop Anis uation in the Diocese of Newcastle Consecrated said. “I have seen this in Dean Samy.” triggered hostility and pressure to eject Diocese of Egypt him. Archbishop Mouneer Hanna Anis “The impact of leading the diocese consecrated the Rev. Samy Fawzy She - at various levels and addressing that hata as the first Arab area bishop for Famine Looms culture has had a personal impact on North Africa on Feb. 27, calling him in Malawi my health, and I think has been some - his dear brother. thing that got me thinking about how Bishop Shehata succeeds the Rt. Rev. Malawi faces a widespread famine af - long I could have done it for,” Thomp - Bill Musk, who presided over the dio - fecting 40 percent of its population, son said. cese encompassing Algeria, Tunisia, warns Anglican mission agency USPG. He said he had worked hard to end a and Libya since 2008. Bishop Musk par - According to George Willow, a sen - culture of not listening. “I think the se - ticipated in the consecration, and the ior staffer from the Anglican Council rious matters of the past, the crimes archbishop thanked him for his service. of Malawi, hunger is becoming in - against children, the culture of not The Rt. Rev. Grant LeMarquand of creasingly acute in what is already a wanting to know, and the culture of the Horn of Africa and the Rt. Rev. lean season. covering up are being addressed.” Michael Lewis of Cyprus and the Gulf Residents of rural areas are affected The search for his successor begins joined the archbishop as co-consecra - most deeply, despite efforts by the na - in May and the royal commission’s tors. tional government to alleviate the situ - work will continue. More than 1,100 Archbishop Foley Beach of the An - ation. complaints of child sexual abuse have glican Church in North America, “The rains have started well in some been made against the Anglican Archbishop Rennis Ponniah of Singa - areas, but in other areas there is too Church of Australia. pore, and other Anglican representa - much or too little,” Willow said. “The tives from across the world also at - government is importing maize from tended the service. neighboring countries, which is being Church Publishing’s Bishop Lewis conveyed the congrat - stored throughout Malawi, but a prob - New Leader ulations of Archbishop Justin Welby of lem is that the price of the staple food Canterbury, welcoming Bishop She - has doubled, meaning many house - Mark Dazzo succeeded hata into the fellowship of Anglican holds are unable to afford maize to feed Davis Perkins as senior servant leadership. themselves.” vice president and pub - Archbishop Welby also praised the He added: “International organiza - lisher of Church Publish - Diocese of Egypt for its role as a bridge tions are trying their best to distribute ing Inc. on April 1. between Muslims and Christians as food to vulnerable families, but the Perkins, who retired on well as among the various Christian task is too large.” March 31, has guided CPI denominations. USPG says famine is also affecting through numerous organi - Dazzo He issued a firm plea to the govern - neighboring Zimbabwe and the island zational transitions in the ment of Egypt to continue recognizing nation of Madagascar, where the three past 10 years. CPI serves as the Anglican Church as an independ - Anglican dioceses are active in drought the publisher of official worship mate - ent denomination, in light of legal dis - relief. rials, books, music, and digital min - putes that jeopardize this status. istry for the Episcopal Church. Bishop Shehata graduated from Aussie Bishop Resigns Dazzo will report to Daniel Kasle, Cairo University in 1985 with a degree chief financial officer and treasurer of in engineering, but set aside his career to Restore His Health Church Pension Group. to pursue Christian ministry. Later he In his previous role as vice president obtained a doctorate in theology from An Australian bishop has resigned af - of global marketing and sales, Dazzo Birmingham University, and upon re - ter joining a harrowing three-year in - oversaw advertising, promotion, sales, turning to Egypt was ordained to serve vestigation into sexual abuse and and global distribution. the church in Alexandria, where he cover-ups by clergy. The Rt. Rev. Greg Church Pension Group was appointed dean in 2013. Thompson, Bishop of Newcastle, said Archbishop Anis said Bishop She - in August 2014 that as a child he was New Westcott House VP hata distinguished himself in pastoral abused by Bishop Ian Shevill, now de - care, especially “among the wounded, ceased. Westcott House, Cambridge, has ap - oppressed, and marginalized.” Bishop Thompson said he was step - pointed the Rev. Matt Bullimore as vice “Truly the church needs trustwor - ping down to put his personal health principal. He succeeds the Rev. Will thy shepherds who love the Lord with and family first. Earlier he told the Lamb, who will become vicar of the all their hearts, and who will exert Royal Commission into Institutional University Church of St. Mary the Vir - every effort to guide the people of God Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that (Continued on next page)
April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 7 pianist, and they have three young should have attended a government news | April 9, 2017 children and a Springer Spaniel. meeting with an Ash Wednesday cross Westcott House Westcott House on her forehead. BBC Politics’ Facebook site asked, (Continued from previous page) “Was it appropriate for this MP to go to gin, Oxford, in May. Rise in Glory: work with a cross on her head?” A Bullimore is vicar of the parishes of photo showed Glasgow MP Carol St. John the Baptist, Royston, and St. Melinda Whalon Monaghan with an ash cross still visi - Peter, Felkirk, in the Diocese of Leeds. Melinda Whalon, wife of the Rt. Rev. ble while she answered questions dur - Bullimore studied theology at the Pierre Whalon, Suffragan Bishop of ing a Parliamentary Committee ses - University of Cambridge before receiv - the Convocation of Churches in Eu - sion, and a remark by Monaghan that ing a scholarship from Emmanuel Col - rope, died on Feb. 26 after a decades- she was not ashamed to appear with lege to spend a year at Harvard Uni - long battle with cancer. the cross. versity, working mainly in the Divinity “It did not conquer her in the end; it Ann Widdecombe, a former mem - School. He subsequently did his MPhil was an infection that she could no ber of Parliament and a convert to Ro - at the University of Manchester before longer fight off,” Whalon wrote on his man Catholicism, said she thought the preparing for ordination at Westcott Facebook page. question reflected a dismissive attitude House. While there he completed his She was buried March 11 in the and said it showed the BBC’s “complete doctoral studies with the supervision colonial churchyard of St. George’s, In - ignorance” on matters of faith. of Professor Catherine Pickstock. dian River Hundred, Harbeson, The Rt. Rev. Pete Broadbent, acting He is the assistant editor for Cru - Delaware. The Whalons have visited bishop of London, tweeted: “Is it ap - cible: The Journal of Christian Social Delaware each summer since 1991. propriate for people working for Ethics . He is a member of the Little - @bbcpolitics to be so ignorant about more Group and has a chapter in the Ash Wednesday Disputes the Christian faith that has shaped this recent collection For God’s Sake: Re- country?” Imagining Priesthood and Prayer in a The BBC has been accused of being On another Ash Wednesday front, a Changing Church . dismissive of Christianity after ques - keen debate centered on whether it was Fr. Bullimore is married to Clare, a tioning whether a Parliament member right to mix glitter with the burned re - mains of last year’s palm crosses. The Rev. Sally Hitchiner, a university
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8 THe LIVInG CHURCH • April 9, 2017 need to apply with the new production Hours were among the works acquired company if they wish to continue. with the Henry Probasco Collection in For now there seem to be no plans to 1889, and the John M. Wing Founda - move Songs of Praise from its prime tion on the History of Printing in - Sunday slot. But there are worries that cludes many theological titles. religion will shrink even further on the In the last decades, a number of in - BBC agenda. The corporation already stitutions have transferred their li - had decided not to appoint a head of braries to the Newberry, including religion when Aaqil Ahmed an - Catholic Theological Union, Concor - nounced his departure in November. dia University Chicago, Dominican Religion was absorbed under the port - Friars of the Province of Saint Albert folio of James Purnell, head of radio the Great, McCormick Theological and education. Seminary, and Mundelein College. “I do fear that there will be a loss in The gift of the Bexley Hall Collec - the BBC of specialist expertise in tion coincides with “Religious Change, broadcast worship, which has been a 1450-1700,” a major Newberry project. core element of its public service re - With funding from the Andrew W. mit,” said Bishop James. Mellon Foundation, the Newberry is Some church leaders were untrou - Bexley Seabury photo modeling an institutionally integrative bled by the change. Newberry Vice President for Collections and approach to produce an exhibition and Library Services Alice Schreyer and Bexley “An independent company may well Seabury President Roger Ferlo view a collec - accompanying digital resources and bring a fresh approach to Songs of tion of 19th-century pamphlets containing programming for the fall of 2017. Praise , but the BBC should also con - sermons by Charles Pettit McIlvaine. Staff from across the institution, and tinue to bolster its religious output,” external scholar-advisers, have drawn said the Rt. Rev. Nick Baines, Bishop of on materials from all parts of the col - Leeds. “At a time when the need for re - A. Ferlo, president of Bexley Seabury. lection to tell the story of how new re - ligious literacy and understanding is “We are delighted to enhance the al - ligious ideas, disseminated through more acute than ever, the expertise of ready impressive archive on the history print, challenged traditional authori - the BBC’s religious department is an of religions at the Newberry Library, ties and thrust the medieval world into asset that needs protecting.” and share our resources with the com - the modern age. Fatima Salaria, the BBC’s commis - munity.” The Bexley Hall Collection will con - sioning editor of religion and ethics, The Bexley Hall Collection consists tribute important works to the study of said: “ Songs of Praise remains our flag - of more than 325 titles and 120 bound this topic, as well as deepen the New - ship religious program right at the volumes containing approximately berry collection of early 19th-century heart of our religion offer. This deci - 1,200 19th-century pamphlets. American imprints from small towns sion secures its future for the next “Bexley Seabury has stewarded this where presses were often set up to three years and reflects both a com - remarkable rare-book collection with print sermons and religious tracts. mitment to the ongoing success of this great care and expertise,” said David much-loved series and to religious cov - Spadafora, president of the Newberry erage more broadly.” Library. “We look forward to building Liberated by God’s Grace “We are disappointed with the out - on their excellent work and welcoming come,” said Mark Linsey, director of the collection’s current users into our Anglicans and Lutherans from across BBC Studios. “We take great pride in community of learning and scholar - the world have prepared 42 biblical re - how we’ve nurtured and developed the ship.” flections that mark the 500th anniver - series over many years, which contin - Among the books in the Bexley Hall sary of the Reformation. The authors ues to delight audiences.” Collection are early Bibles and Books represent a balance of global Anglican - of Common Prayer; early printings of ism and global Lutheranism, and in - Bexley Seabury’s Gift works by Erasmus; and works of theol - clude both ordained and lay people, ogy, philosophy, and travel. The col - women and men. As part of the recent consolidation of lection includes more than two dozen Although suitable for a Lenten study Bexley Seabury in Chicago, the semi - 16th-century imprints and books from program, the reflections can be used nary has donated the Bexley Hall Rare such presses as Elzevir, Froben, and at any other time of the year. They are Book Collection to the Newberry Li - Plantin. Titles in the Bexley Hall Col - being posted day by day throughout brary. lection will be available as they are cat - Lent on the websites of both the “As one of Chicago’s richest centers aloged by the Newberry’s staff. 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April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 9 the bathroom corresponding to their convent, Dark and his team found a news | April 9, 2017 gender identity. The Episcopal Church church and two tombs matching a de - Biblical Reflections has spoken clearly on this issue scription in a text dating from A.D. 670 through our 76th General Convention, by a monk named Adomnán. The (Continued from previous page) supporting the enactment of laws at monk mentioned a church standing eration’s overarching theme for the the local, state, and federal levels that “where once there was the house in 2017 commemoration (“Liberated by prohibit discrimination based on gen - which the Lord was nourished in his God’s Grace”) and subthemes of “Sal - der identity.” infancy.” vation—Not for Sale,” “Human Be - Curry signed the amicus brief along The house was carved out of a hill - ings—Not for Sale,” “Creation—Not for with the Rev. Gay Jennings, president side. After studying soil layers, the Sale,” and “Freed to Serve—Diakonia.” of the House of Deputies. team concluded that the house was several centuries older than the Byzan - Jesus’ Childhood Home? tine church. Dark believes this suggests Bishop Curry Speaks a first-century structure. on Transgender Case Could ancient remains of a courtyard- There are few archaeological re - style house in Nazareth be where Jesus mains of first-century Nazareth. Dark Presiding Bishop Michael Curry re - grew up? There is “no good reason” to believes the site is of great significance cently offered background on his deci - doubt it, says archaeologist Ken Dark because an early Christian house was sion to file an amicus brief in Glouces - of the University of Reading. “At the built over the original house, followed ter County School Board v. G.G. , a case very least, it is a hugely important his - by another during the Crusades, and involving Gavin Grimm. Grimm seeks torical finding from the imperial Ro - then the convent. It certainly makes a equal access, based on gender identity, man era,” he says. strong case for protection. to bathroom facilities in a public When Dark and his all-British team “Both the tombs and the house were school. began explorations around Nazareth in decorated with mosaics in the Byzan - “The Episcopal Church welcomes all 2005, the goal was to learn more about tine period, suggesting they were of persons: young and old, liberal and how Nazareth developed and how it special importance and possibly ven - conservative, high-church and low- was affected by Christian pilgrimages. erated,” Dark wrote in Biblical Archae - church, cisgender and transgender Scholars have long believed that the ology Review . children of God,” Bishop Curry wrote. Sisters of Nazareth convent sits above The house carved out of the lime - “A pivotal point in the ongoing the remains of a church dating from stone is fairly typical of a first-century struggle for the civil rights of all God’s the Byzantine era in the 4th and 5th artisan’s home. “These were the typical children will culminate this spring, centuries. homes of everyday people,” Dark said. when the Supreme Court of the United A fragment written by a seventh- He believes “the simplest reason for be - States determines whether to uphold century monk set Dark and his team lieving it is the home of Jesus is that the the right of transgender persons to use on the trail. Entering the cellar of the Byzantines believed it and they were a lot closer to the early Christian period than we are.” FOR WHERE Trust the Stevens Worldwide Van Lines John Martin LIFE TAKES Clergy Move Center™ Spiritual Health YOU... Stevens is proud to deliver over 110 years of family-owned moving expertise and quality The United Kingdom’s National Insti - services to the Episcopal Church members, clergy, tute for Health and Care Excellence employees and educators: (NICE) is urging health and care work - • Discounted pricing ers to consider cultural, religious, or • Top-rated drivers and crews • Customized moving packages social preferences of patients in their • Stevens Home Protection Kit™ final days. • Free no-obligation move estimate Of the half-million deaths each year • Single point-of-contact in England, three-quarters were antic - Recommended Mover by the Episcopal Church ipated by medical staff. A new quality standard from the health watchdog The way to move sets out care standards for patients age 18 or older in their last two to three days of life. It sets out a series of meas - CALL VICKI BIERLEIN: ures that should help those in their fi - 9 2
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April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 11 12 THe LIVInG CHURCH • April 9, 2017 The Great Vigil of Easter “Through this liturgy, the BCP recovers an Nashotah House Theological Seminary ancient practice of keeping the easter feast” wrote Don s. Armentrout and the March 26, 2016 Rev. Robert Boak slocum in An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church (Church Publish - ing, 1999). “Believers would gather in the hours of darkness ending at dawn on easter to hear scripture and offer prayer. This night-long service of prayerful watch - ing anticipated the baptisms that would come at first light and the easter eucharist. easter was the primary baptismal occasion for the early church to the practical exclu - sion of all others. This practice linked the meanings of Christ’s dying and rising to the understanding of baptism.”
April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 13 A teaching series on prayer book revision
Rediscover the Gospel
By Gavin Dunbar anity, he brought it out of the semi-Pelagianism of the late Middle Ages and into the anti-Pelagian reformation of an hat is Anglican Christianity? It is an ever-changing English-speaking church. The wrenching character of that thing, no doubt, but if it does nothing but change, transformation has been noted by many, not least because we Wthen it is nothing, nothing but an endless series of have lived through wrenching liturgical changes ourselves. unrelated events and atomized experiences. There must also Given the reformers’ zeal to scrape away all that obscured the be continuity, which in the self is memory, and in the com - gospel, however, we may now appreciate just how successful munity is tradition. Without continuity, both the self and the he was in preserving the substance of the ancient liturgical community fall into debilitating and ultimately destructive tradition within the worship of a reformed church. We may amnesia, lacking any grounds for discernment in the present also thank the providence that put a stop to further liturgical or expectation of the future. The stability of the prayer book revision by the early death of Edward VI, and the long reign tradition, its slowness to change (the conservatism that some of Elizabeth, who was so obdurately set against any further criticize as archaic and petrified) made it the primary locus reformation. for Anglicans of the church’s memory, its self-understanding Cranmer’s liturgy, nudged in a slightly more conservative and identity. direction under Elizabeth and her Stuart successors, came to Of course, liturgies must change. We now pray for those be cherished in popular memory, and acquired the mellow who travel by air as well as land and water. We will soon have patina of venerable age and dignity. Abolished and revived to pray for civil rulers who are not Christians. But if a liturgy more than once, conservatively revised from time to time, changes too rapidly, if it conforms too closely to the way we conservatively adapted to the new national churches of the think now, then it makes us prisoners of the latest fad and Anglican Communion, it provided Anglicanism with anchors fashion, and it gives us no perspective on ourselves. Liturgy not only in the tradition of Protestant orthodoxy, but also, serves not just to reinforce our self-understanding as Episco - along with it, in the tradition of Catholic antiquity and in the palians or Anglicans — which, let us not forget, is the self- witness of Scripture. understanding of a tiny, self-selected denomination within Precisely by their success, Cranmer’s wide-ranging revi - the North American church — but to set it in a much larger sions set a dangerous precedent for the liturgical revisers of context, a much larger historical community. It is there to root the late 20th and early 21st century in North American Angli - us in the common Christian heritage of Scripture, creeds, canism. He made the high-wire work of liturgical moderniza - ministry, and sacraments, as these have been received in the tion look easy! In some respects, they sought to replicate Anglican tradition of doctrine and worship. The very features Cranmer’s work in order to undo it. They sought to detach the of this tradition of worship that may seem alien, irrelevant, Anglican tradition of worship from its 16th-century theolog - perplexing, or even jarring are evidence that it is not just a ical roots and bring it into accord with ideas of a liberal mirror of our preoccupations, but a window into a larger Protestant denomination with a liberal Catholic aesthetic in world than the one we have defined for ourselves. the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As a result, one can see the influence of the Liturgy of Hippolytus or the Liturgy of St. ranmer changed the liturgy, a good bit. Though he did Basil. But outside Rite One there are only faint shadows and Cnot scrap the ancient liturgical tradition of Latin Christi - fragments of the Anglican — that is to say, in large part, the
14 THe LIVInG CHURCH • April 9, 2017 Cranmer’s wide-ranging revisions set a dangerous precedent for the liturgical revisers of the late 20th and early 21st century in North American Anglicanism. In some respects, they sought to replicate Cranmer’s work in order to undo it.
Cranmerian — tradition of worship. Liturgy and Unity This change first affects the Nicene faith of Catholic antiq - One could hardly ask for a better short description of Angli - uity, retained by the reformers. Barely hinted at in the 1979 can self-understanding than that provided in the preamble of prayer book but openly embraced as the governing principle the Constitution of the Episcopal Church: of the supplementary texts in Enriching Our Worship , the insistence on inclusive language for God and mankind (e.g., The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of Amer - “It is right to give him thanks and praise” becomes “It is right ica … is a constituent member of the Anglican Communion, a to give our thanks and praise”) makes us strangers to the lan - Fellowship within the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic guage of Scripture and the creeds, which by contemporary Church, of those duly constituted Dioceses, Provinces, and standards is not inclusive. regional Churches in communion with the See of Canterbury, The erasure of the Anglican tradition is most obvious in upholding and propagating the historic Faith and Order as set those matters closer to the core doctrinal issues of the Refor - forth in the Book of Common Prayer. mation. In the 1979 prayer book there are confessions of sin, though they may be omitted “on occasion,” and very often are. Here is Anglican polity as we once knew it: self-governing The language does not hint at the gravity of sin (“there is no national churches in a genuine global fellowship of national health in us” did not make the cut even in Rite I). In accord churches, in communion with the See of Canterbury, united with the protests of liberal theologians, the language of propi - not by governmental structures, or even “bonds of affection,” tiation has disappeared, even from Rite I. Ideas of sin and but a sacramental communion with the See of Canterbury, grace, atonement and reconciliation, are present in the liturgy, grounded in a common commitment to “the historic Faith though vaguely and timidly expressed: but when an echo of and Order as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer.” the Cranmerian liturgy on these matters might be expected, it A common liturgy performs for Anglicans something of is conspicuous by its absence. For example, Eucharistic Prayer what the creeds do for Christians in general: it provides them A, based on Hippolytus, allows that Christ was sent “to live a concrete point of mutual recognition as belonging to the and die as one of us, to reconcile us to you, the God and same community of faith, and it assures them of a certain Father of all”; and on the cross he “offered himself ... a perfect shared perspective on what this faith is and how it is prac - sacrifice for the whole world” — but not, it seems, as Angli - ticed. Within that common liturgy, there is space indeed for can ears and memories would expect, “ for the sins of the considerable diversity — yet the common liturgy sets bound - whole world” (after “perfect sacrifice”). The liturgists may aries that allow the diversity to be non-destructive. And argue that this omission is designed to expand Cranmer’s nar - because, in virtue of our origins in the 16th century Reforma - row focus on atonement for sin — but the effect is one of dilu - tion, we already have a common liturgical heritage in the Eng - tion rather than enrichment, vagueness rather than clarity, lish prayer books of 1549 through 1662 and their local and the deliberate elimination of historic memory. By com - adaptations, we have not only a community in space but also parison, consider the eucharistic rites of the English Book of a community in time. Common Worship, in which the Cranmerian texts and It was consequential when the American church applied the themes are freely but more respectfully appropriated; for familiar title of the Book of Common Prayer to a liturgy that example, Prayer B: “And so, Father, calling to mind his death was deliberately distanced from the commonly recognized and on the cross, his perfect sacrifice made once for the sins of the objective substance of the Anglican liturgical tradition. Consti - whole world; rejoicing in his mighty resurrection and glori - tutionally it was a bit of legislative legerdemain, allowing the ous ascension, and looking for his coming in glory, we cele - American church to alter the substance of its doctrine and wor - brate this memorial of our redemption.” ship while maintaining formal continuity. But precisely as such, The loss of liturgical memory and tradition brings with it by its erasure of the common heritage of prayer, the 1979 Book a kind of spiritual amnesia, with consequences for the of Common Prayer is fundamentally flawed as an instrument Church’s unity and mission. of Anglican unity. It has contributed to the fragmentation of the (Continued on page 24)
April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 15 CULTURES
Max McLean on C.S. Lewis: “His conversion is a roadmap for people who have given up.” Jeremy Daniel photos Becoming Lewis
Max McLean turns from adapting C.S. Lewis’s imaginative works to depicting the author’s journey to God.
By Retta Blaney Gospel of John, and he gave her his people who have given up.” card and they arranged a time to talk Lewis has been important to woman in her early 20s came further. McLean’s life since he too was in his up to Max McLean after a per - Such is the intensity of the story early 20s. He grew up Roman Aformance of his latest one-man McLean has written and is portraying Catholic in a military family. First play, C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Re - at Off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre Communion and confirmation were luctant Convert , and said she could through April 2. “People have associa - meaningful to him, but as a teenager not possibly be a Christian. tions that get in the way and they can’t he stopped attending church and “fell Sensing her anxiety, McLean told get past them. Theatre and art have a into atheism, more by anger than her, “God has you in his net and he’s way of breaking through stigmas,” he anything else.” not going to let you go.” Her response said, quoting Lewis’s notion of “steal - He experimented with Eastern reli - surprised him: “What should I do?” ing past the watchful dragons.” gions in college, in keeping with the He recommended that she read the “His conversion is a roadmap for trend of the 1970s. Then he met the
16 THe LIVInG CHURCH • April 9, 2017 woman who would become his wife. “I’m not as smart as he was,” A Christian, she took him to church McLean says. “My confidence comes and introduced him to other Chris - from knowing what an extraordinary tians, one of whom described Jesus as writer he was.” having been a historical person just The play, which is performed with - like George Washington. This trig - out an intermission, is set in Lewis’s gered in McLean a sense that Jesus study at Magdalen College, Oxford, in was something more than the “fairy- 1950 and tells the story of his life, tale character” he had grown up from the time of his mother’s death imagining. from cancer when he was 10, through The first thing he did was read the his estranged relationship with his fa - Gospel of John. His second choice for ther, his fighting in World War I, his Christian reading was Surprised by avowed atheism, and his conversion. Joy , which he described as “over my “Conversion stories are inherently head,” followed by The Screwtape Let - dramatic,” McLean says. “It’s some - ters , which he “got immediately.” thing you fight against. The tension is McLean continues to respect the almost like an invasion. In Christian way Lewis opens his readers to the language, we’re all rebels. The Incar - supernatural world, something he nation is a kind of invasion, taking thinks the modern church, in its de - back enemy territory.” sire to simplify and demystify, misses. He said the play’s title helps attract “Lewis is my spiritual guide,” more than just Lewis fans because it is McLean said during a telephone in - intriguing. “ Convert means to change “He believed so strongly in how the supernatural terview in late February. “He helps and reluctant means to avoid. That world interacts with ours. He triggers my imagination me understand reality in a way I was the guiding principle to the in a way almost no other writer does.” wouldn’t see or understand. He be - piece.” He said he needed to set up lieved so strongly in how the super - why Lewis was an atheist: his mother’s the author’s “generosity of spirit.” natural world interacts with ours. He death, his relationship with his father, “He was a strange mixture of being triggers my imagination in a way al - and being wounded in the war. incredibly self-reflective and not tak - most no other writer does.” “That gave him an extremely pes - ing himself too seriously. He had self- Deciding to portray that spiritual simistic view of reality. To turn from deprecating humor. His basic nature guide onstage was a natural progres - that was very challenging.” McLean was to be very proud and arrogant, sion for the actor and playwright. He identified the fulcrum of the play as and he buried that. had previously adapted and per - the tension between atheism and the - “I feel like I know him. I feel like formed The Screwtape Letters and The ism. “Once I knew how I wanted to he’s my buddy. With so many writers Great Divorce for the stage. In doing go, I knew what to take out and what you get to the bottom of them so, he read extensively among works to put in.” quickly. you don’t get to the bottom of by and about Lewis. With the help of a three-piece suit, Lewis.” “In 2011 the idea came to me to at - pipe, and a wig of thinning, combed- McLean attributes this to deep in - tempt to tell his own story,” McLean back hair, McLean transforms into sight. said. He spent two or thee months Lewis and tells his story to the audi - “He read everything from the working on a first draft, then put it ence. In preparation for the “forest of Greeks to the moderns, and he could away until 18 months ago, when he words to navigate,” he listened to remember everything. He was a began working on it through “a hefty three audio clips he found online. In chronicler of literature who was able development process” that included one, Lewis sounds “almost Alfred to see how the Christian view of the labs and workshops before the show Hitchcockish.” In the others he is world best absorbed all the world - premiered in Washington, D.C., last more relaxed. “He was Irish but he views he read.” April. It then played Chicago and had took on an Oxford don pronunciation a brief Midwestern tour before the that was very erudite and educated.” Retta Blaney is an award-winning New york show. About 90 percent of In preparing for and portraying journalist and author of Working on the 80-minute script consists of Lewis, McLean says the “Number the Inside: The Spiritual Life Through Lewis’s words. One thing” he has learned was about the Eyes of Actors .
April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 17 BOOKS
Radner: Figuring Out Time
Review by Michael Cover ond part of the book (“Figuralism in Practice”), which includes a study of n Time and the Word , Ephraim figures in the lectionary, called “juxta - Radner offers his long-expected positional reading,” as well as four fig - Itheology of “figural reading.” This ural sermons from different periods in book is a major moment for Anglican history, the core elements of Radner’s biblical theology, which can be seen as proposal are laid out in chapters two Time and the Word a sibling or more distant cousin of the and three of the first part. Radner of - Figural Reading Childsean, canonical vision of Christo - fers, first, a history of figuralism (chap - of Christian Scriptures pher Seitz. Radner’s earlier works (and ter two), from Origen to Henri De By Ephraim Radner personal spirituality, as he details in the Lubac and Leonhard Goppelt. This Eerdmans, 2016. Pp. 334. $50 autobiographical introduction to this history turns out to be a stunning de - volume) are permeated with scriptural fense of Origen, whom Radner con - reflection and presuppose such an ac - strues in continuity with John the third explores systematically: that count; but despite a small, insightful Wycliffe’s later Christian Platonism. Scripture, as Verbum Domini , cannot essay on Keble’s Tract 89, Radner had The Reformation, for its part, frag - be construed purely as a human arti - not attempted to articulate his figural - ments Christian figuralism into Ro - fact existing in time (like any other ist hermeneutics in a systematic man - man Catholic traditionalism, on the book); nor can its internal referents ner. Some readers of A Brutal Unity one hand, and Protestant Hebraism point solely in a unilinear direction (as (among whom I number myself) had and typologism on the other, which are in certain variants of Protestant typol - in fact puzzled over the logic underly - only bridged by the “sectarian” excur - ogy). Rather, as eternal Word of God, ing the author’s exegetical codices to sions into more Catholic figuralism by Scripture is a divine artifact used by each chapter in that volume, and in the Keble and Newman. Wycliffe and cer - God in creation and redemption, one introduction to Time and the Word tain Jansenist figuralists emerge as the that “straddles the threshold of God’s Radner acknowledges that these had heroes of Radner’s history. asymmetrical time and creaturely time, not been wholly successful on their and cannot be included within a sim - own and needed to be substantiated by rom this tour de force survey, Rad - ple historical frame” (p. 100). Radner’s a fuller hermeneutical account. This Fner transitions in chapter three into Scripture thus emerges as a kind of book is, in part, his answer to those a systematic mode, and constructs a metaphysical actor and instrument, critics, and as such comprises a com - theological account of figuralism. The similar in a certain sense to the rab - panion piece to his earlier ecclesiolog - core of this chapter — and perhaps the binic pre-existent Torah (see Genesis ical studies. But it is also, in larger part, entire book — is a “curiously blood - Rabbah ), which has a role in the cre - a lovingly pastoral sketch of the au - less” (p. 106) 12-page, 16-section out - ation of the world. Scripture as “word” thor’s presumed hermeneutics, devel - line aimed at helping the reader “imag - is also related to the Second Person of oped and practiced in many years of ine figural time.” Leaving Origen and the Trinity, who bears the same title, al - academic and pastoral ministry, and Wycliffe behind, Radner unveils (un - though the latter possesses it more dedicated to his students at Wycliffe apologetically) the Early Modern properly. It is only with such a high (al - College in Toronto. thought that funds his “common sense beit underdetermined) metaphysics — Although biblical scholars will be in - figuralism”: the causality and skepti - anchored in creation out of nothing terested in Radner’s appreciative-yet- cism of David Hume (p. 98), the occa - (creatio ex nihilo ) as the unifying given critical reception of N.T. Wright’s “on - sionalism of Nicolas Malebranche and (p. 113, n. 1) — that figural reading going exile” motif (as well as his idealism of George Berkeley (p. 63), and Christian theology become possi - critique of historical criticism) in the and ultimately the analogical program ble. first chapter, and priests and pastors of Joseph Butler (p. 107). What the sec - The most important ramification of will find much of substance to the sec - ond chapter demonstrates historically, this move on Radner’s part is that it
18 THe LIVInG CHURCH • April 9, 2017 Radner’s study can be tury Greek Jewish exegete whose Lo - the entire Church, capable of tran - gos (like Radner’s Scripture) straddles scending the misperceptions of indi - seen as part of a larger the “borderland” of the created and vidual consciences and grounded in uncreated, serves as God’s instrument the Word who is the Way, the Truth, program of reconcilia - in creation, and was a critical influence and the Life. (Radner treats this im - on Origen’s figuralism and Logos the - portant question in “Doctrine, Des - tion among the warring ology and the Platonist tradition influ - tiny, and the Figure of History” in ential on Augustine. Radner and George Sumner, Reclaim - factions of the faithful It is precisely the breadth of Radner’s ing Faith: Essays on Orthodoxy in the seeking understanding history of figuralism and the lumping Episcopal Church [Eerdmans, 1993], together of Basil, Augustine, Origen, pp. 65-79.) in the common words of Amoraic midrashim, Wycliffe, and At the same time, Radner is com - Calvin that gives it the feel of a kind of mitted to an ecumenical and indeed Scripture. Grand Unifying Theory for biblicists, Jewish-Christian history of figuralism one that will certainly appeal to those less concerned with winners and losers tired of historical criticism, but that (and the tired struggles of Christian also seems almost too good to be true. schism) or particular philosophical liberates the figures of Scripture from Radner necessarily overlooks critical stances, and more concerned with rec - their time-bound letter and historical differences, for instance, between the onciling our history of divisive figural - contexts to permeate the life of a Greek and Latin traditions (repre - ism through the recognition of a Christian more liberally, imagina - sented by Basil/Origen and Augus - shared posture toward Scripture. Rad - tively, and authoritatively. Exile is not tine). Even more perplexing for some ner’s performance of certain tensions only “then” — at the time of the Baby - will be the elision of patristic and me - throughout the study can thus be seen lonian Captivity, or the Maccabean dieval exegesis (chapter two), as well as not only as an exercise in Christian wars, or in first-century Judea — it is the harmonization of Neoplatonic, skeptical occasionalism in the spirit of also “now,” in the current struggles of Thomistic, Nominalist, and Early Butler, but also as part of a larger pro - the Episcopal Church, in the flight of Modern theologians and philosophers gram of reconciliation among the war - Christians from Syria and Egypt, and into a single symphonic genealogy ring factions of the faithful seeking un - so on. Conversely, the redemptive ac - (chapters two through four) of com - derstanding in the common words of tivity of the Word is not only “now,” in mon-sense figuralists. Scripture, which takes up the mantle of a post-incarnational divine economy, An additional critique of Radner’s George Lindbeck. This is not to say it is also “then”: in the burning bush, “common sense” proposal will be the that Radner’s theological and philo - with Elijah on the mountain, in the degree to which it fails to offer a crite - sophical commitments are completely belly of the whale. Redescribing Scrip - rion for adjudicating between various obscured in the work. He nonetheless ture thus helps one understand the figuralist perceptions and their “eris - adopts a posture of ecumenical open - economic interrelationship of all time tological” consequences. Martin ness and invites his readers to an rightly, and allows one to speak, with Luther’s composition of The Babylon - armistice in a no-man’s land between Basil of Caesarea, of “time as a school ian Captivity of the Christian Church the historical reductionism of Scrip - for holiness” (p. 48) and, with Radner in 1520, for instance, involved an au - ture to a human artifact, on the one (Augustine, Calvin, Jansen), of “his - thentically figuralist reading in Rad - hand, and the antecedent interreligious tory as the grace of God” (p. 110). ner’s terms. But how “accurate” was and interdenominational warfare over his description vis-à-vis the figuralist appropriate figural readings of Scrip - n painting the history of figuralism readings of Counter-Reformation ture, on the other. The study reaffirms Iwith a broad diachronic and interre - Catholics in the 17th century or a Je - the author’s place as one of Anglican - ligious brush, Radner has made a com - suit like Hopkins who would in New - ism’s foremost theologians and ecu - pelling case for the need for Christian man’s day refer to Luther, in no less menists. This book is a gift to the theology to come to terms with pre - apocalyptic and figural terms, as “the Church, and warrants serious, sus - modern exegesis. Radner’s attention to beast of the waste wood”? Given Rad - tained attention by pastors and schol - the convergence of Jewish and Chris - ner’s Wycliffite and Origenist history, ars alike. tian figuralism (pp. 67-72) especially one presumes that the economic in - warrants attention. Given the impor - strument of Scripture is not meant The Rev. Michael Cover is assistant tance of this recognition, one might merely to provide a language for the professor of theology at Marquette Uni - have liked to see Radner also engage phenomenology of individual faith, versity and a member of the Anglican- Philo of Alexandria, an A.D. first-cen - but a collective rod of discipline for Roman Catholic Consultation in the U.S.
April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 19 BOOKS
Building on Gregory Dix
Review by Mark Michael onto the less-followed paths of Amish scores of eucharistic prayers, some - and Mormon eucharistic doctrine, and times with contradictory emphases hen an author begins his his - the surprising influence of the patris - within different branches of the tory of the Eucharist with an tic-inspired liturgies of a small Victo - church. Spinks selects his examples Wextended passage from Gre - rian Protestant sect that called itself the carefully to identify common themes gory Dix, you know he’s setting his Catholic Apostolic Church. And, of and notable divergences. sights pretty high. Bryan D. Spinks course, Dix could never have antici - His treatment of the Anglican eu - claims that Do This in Remembrance pated the delights of current Pente - charistic tradition is wide-ranging and of Me , like all other works in English costal eucharistic scholarship or the masterful, going far beyond the stan - on the subject, is “totally overshad - agonies of “virtual consecration” on a dard rehearsal of phrases added to and owed” by the dom’s brilliant (if occa - wireless network. removed from the eucharistic prayer in sionally incorrect) ideas and majestic Nearly all of the mid-century cer - the Book of Common Prayer. His clever prose. But no one in recent memory tainties have been contested in the last summary of the field will surely end up has dared attempt anything similar to several decades, especially in the field somewhere in every future Anglican seminarian’s class notes: “The history of Anglicanism until the last decades of the twentieth century is a history of ex - tremely varied theologies of the Eu - charist, all kept together and affirmed, Do This in Remembrance of Me or marginalized and ignored, or totally The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day contradicted by a strange adherence to By Bryan D. Spinks . SCM Press. Pp. 445. $90 (cloth), $75 (eBook) the Cranmerian text” (p. 345). Spinks’s remarkable command of these “extremely varied theologies” helps him to spot unexpected similar - ities, like the anticipation of Dix’s four - fold shape of the Eucharist in the the - this Dix-like grand narrative of eu - of early Christian liturgy. This makes ology of the 17th-century Puritan charistic liturgy and theology in 445 liturgical history a much more compli - William Perkins. He also relates, at erudite pages. cated discipline, in which clear judg - length, the interesting tale of the varied It’s difficult not to assess Spinks ments prove elusive. Spinks deftly and fortunes of eucharistic sacrifice in through The Shape of the Liturgy , judiciously summarizes the different evangelical Anglican theology. After which its publisher still touts as “the sides of highly disputed subjects in prominent Puritan Richard Baxter re - authoritative work on the subject.” contemporary liturgical scholarship, trieved a robust association of the obla - First, Spinks casts his net far wider including the relationship between the tion and pleading Christ’s sacrifice than Dix did in surveying the ways that Eucharist and various Jewish meal from his reading of the Fathers, the Christians have celebrated the Eu - practices, the provenance of the fa - theme became common in evangelical charist. Spinks delves deeply into the mous anaphora of the “Apostolic Tra - circles for several generations. After rites of Oriental Orthodox churches, dition,” and the sources of the Roman the Tractarians took it up following a parses the variety of West Syrian canon. similar return to classic sources in the anaphoras (an area of special expertise He shows his skill for incisive sum - 1830s, evangelicals rejected it whole - for him), and presents one of the most mary in treating the tremendous num - sale in reaction, and used their influ - thorough summaries in English of the ber of liturgical texts written in the last ence to keep out as much sacrificial Ethiopian rite. half-century under the influence of the language as possible from revised litur - He also unfolds Protestant eucharis - Liturgical Movement. While the Sec - gies in the next century. tic liturgy and theology in great detail. ond Vatican Council’s changes and ec - A significant delimiting of the terri - The texts and theological methods of umenical cooperation led to some no - tory is necessary even in a work so en - the magisterial reformers are parsed table convergence in liturgical practice, cyclopedic, and Spinks alerts his read - with care, but Spinks also ventures late 20th-century churches also wrote ers at the outset that the themes of
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April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 21 Caeli enarrant The heavens declare the glory of God
Thorns, Cross, Crucifixion
f the first two sorrowful mysteries — our Lord’s companion of the abused, disrespected, and scorned, agony in the garden and scourging at the pillar — di - the mocked and the maltreated. Christ suffered, writes Irectly confronted us with the Passion, dropping us in St. Thomas Aquinas, the deep end, the last three only repeat and intensify the regimen. Their sole purpose is to fix our attention on in his friends abandoning him; in his reputation, from things as they are: the form of God’s suffering love. To the blasphemies hurled at him; in his honor and glory, pray these mysteries — traditionally on Tuesdays and from the mockeries and the insults heaped upon him; in Fridays year round, and on Sundays of Lent — is to things, for he was despoiled of his garments; in his soul, commit oneself to pressing in to the heart and soul of the from sadness, weariness, and fear; in his body, from Christian revelation, with confidence that “the upward wounds and scourgings. ( Summa theologiae III 46, 5 c) call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:14) must follow his ascetical path, not as some masochistic revelry but as a He suffers as the Word made flesh, and so recasts hu - humble commitment to formation. These mysteries man humiliation, making it peculiarly his own. He gives function much the same as the stations of the cross, himself completely to God, not counting equality as with the added benefit that we may pray the rosary in something to be grasped (see Phil. 2:5-7). As man he re - every season — in the summertime, on vacation, on the nounces pride and all that would separate him from road. God or distort the divine image. His way of renunciation Set within the contemplative cadence of the Our Fa - entails the cross (2:8), which seeds new life by death, the ther and sets of Hail Marys, all the mysteries of the same death he previously commended by his own bap - rosary inspire questions: Presuming this is true, what tism and the institution of the Mass, wherein all may be would you have me do, Lord, this morning or this after - sacrificed in him. Together, these offerings illuminate noon? What next right thought shall I think? What next the way of humility, that is, the transforming of “the right action shall I take? — something, perhaps, I had not body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the imagined may be possible or appropriate. Having won - body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to dered to the Father, we recognize the pattern of his re - make all things subject to himself” (3:21). sponse, in persona Christi : “Do this in remembrance of Christian humility and associated humiliations in me.” That is, Be like me , pointing — in the case of the Christ are not optional extras for would-be heroes of the mysteries at hand — to the forlorn figure of his Son . faith, nor regrettable extremities to which poor souls are sadly subjected. Crowning with thorns is the norm, rowning with thorns. Having witnessed our Lord’s as an entry or door to the place where faithless fears and Cterrible torture, his crowning with thorns marks a self-absorption may properly be put to death. God humiliation. The Savior of the world is left to the devices would pour himself out surprisingly in the “springs of of debauched soldiers, who keep “coming up to him, salvation” to be “known in all the world,” in fulfillment saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ and striking him on the of Isaiah’s prophecy. He does this chiefly in the person of face” (John 19:3). Pilate, in a criminal derogation of jus - his Son, who calls all who suffer — all human beings — tice, betrays him to the mad crowds. “So Jesus came out, to walk with him in transforming compassion. To crown wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate ourselves, and to be crowned, with thorns, in a bid of said to them, ‘Here is the man!’” (19:5). self-compassion and self-love, is to go down to the dust Ecce homo , indeed, for here is the God -man. At once singing Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia , however prospectively divine and human, our Lord amazingly appears as the (see Burial I, 1979 BCP, p. 483). These are the means by
22 THe LIVInG CHURCH • April 9, 2017 which we behold God, which form the substance of our Of course, the Passion of Christ is utterly unique and testimony precisely in trial. “Surely, it is God [ Ecce, non-repeatable; only the Messiah can, by his death, ef - Deus !] who saves me; I will trust in him and not be fect our freedom from sin, from which follows delivery afraid. For the Lord is my stronghold and my sure de - from the power of the devil, freedom from debt of pun - fense, and he will be my Savior” (Canticle 9, the First ishment, reconciliation with God, and entry into heaven Song of Isaiah). (Summa III 49). The peculiar fittingness of Christ’s Pas - sion, however, also calls forth our “obedience, humility, arrying the cross. Already at Mark 8, Jesus’ message constancy, justice,” and other virtues displayed by him Cto his disciples and to the crowds is clear: “If any that we need in order to be saved (ibid., 46, 3 c). Aquinas want to become my followers, let them deny themselves cites 1 Peter 2:21: “Christ also suf - and take up their cross and follow me” (8:34). And then fered for you, leaving you an ex - he demonstrates how it is done. What can we glean from ample, so that you should follow the Gospels? Where the synoptic accounts have Simon in his steps,” and 1 Corinthians Until our of Cyrene carrying Jesus’ cross (Mark 15:21, Matt. 27:32, 6:20: “you were bought with a Luke 23:26), St. John states explicitly that Jesus “carried price; therefore, glorify God in own end, the cross by himself” (19:17). Putting the two together, your body.” Christ’s our Lord is urging us to share his communion of suffer - The whole history of Christian - ing — the bread of his flesh that he gives “for the life of ity and of the Church could, in a Passion the world” (John 6:51). We who meditate on this mys - sense, be writ with special refer - tery must pray for the grace to be called upon like Simon ence to this point as the center of remains the to aid our Lord in love, as a small token of thanks to God the gospel: that God in Christ who “proves his love for us in that while we still were gives his elect supernatural faith, singular sinners Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8). and by the Holy Spirit enables our Likewise, we are the women of Jerusalem following obedience and perseverance. He source of behind. St. Luke presents Jesus’ striking prophecy in an does so in the form of a servant salvation apocalyptic key: “Do not weep for me, but weep for (Phil. 2:7), who becomes for us yourselves and for your children” (Luke 23:28-29). In a not only Savior and Lord but and world of feigned allegiances and half-hearted loyalties, Teacher and Head. Dying, we be - cross-carrying begins with confrontation of our own come his members. Rising, we are holiness. duplicity, both as individuals and various collectives. called to new life in keeping with Mature compassion grows not from a feeling of sorrow, his law, which enjoins daily self- still less from a projected regret for the more-severe emptying (see 1 Cor. 15:31). Until shortcomings of others, but from the soil of repentance our own end, Christ’s Passion remains the singular and confession. We may hear Jesus’ word as merciful in - source of salvation and holiness — in the sacraments, sofar as it effects our conversion and consequent amend - and in our love of him by acts of penance, reparation, ment of life. “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief” and solidarity. (Mark 9:24, KJV). “Let us also go, that we may die with him” (John 11:16). rucifixion and death. All of which tends to an in - O God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an Celuctable end: “I want to know Christ and the power instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain gladly suffer shame and loss for the sake of your Son our the resurrection from the dead” (Phil. 3:10-11). If there Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the is a thesis concerning the exemplarity of Christ’s sacri - Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. fice for all who would follow him, this is it. Christopher Wells
April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 23 LETTERS Lessons from the 1789 BCP Thanks for your very helpful Neces - ration, then, was seen as equally spe - St. Francis Church sary or Expedient? series. Recently at cial. Along with preparation, there was 10033 River Rd., Potomac, MD 20854 St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, with the even a warning of the danger of ap - 301.365.2055 | stfrancispotomac.org encouragement of our bishop, the Rt. proaching the Lord’s table unprepared. Rev. Mike Klusmeyer, we celebrated a The theological and spiritual value At the heart of Potomac Village, St. Francis Eucharist using the liturgy found in the of the 1789 Eucharist made a deep im - Church seeks to proclaim the Gospel with 1789 Book of Common Prayer. What pression, and spurred me to do some gratitude and confidence. Our common life struck us all was the tremendous thinking about our preparation for is grounded in classical Anglican liturgy, weight given to preparing for Com - Communion in the 21st century. The supported by accomplished choristers, who munion in those days. you can find 1979 Exhortation is a general state - are led by a talented musician and some of that captured in the Exhorta - ment of preparation with a heavy dose composer. We grow in our knowledge and tion (pp. 316-17 of the 1979 Prayer of confession. Should preparation for love of God through learned, orthodox Book). Communion be equated with a gen - preaching and a robust program of Bible In that era, Communion was not eral confession? study for all ages. We gather youth from celebrated weekly and was seen as an The Rev. Charles M. Pope our wider community for weekly infrequent special celebration. Prepa - St. Albans, West Virginia fellowship. We serve Christ in the poor through gis to a wide network of community organizations and mission expressed religiously and ecclesiasti - work in neighboring Washington, D.C., cally. Accordingly, in the hour of their and around our nation. (Continued from page 15) triumph, the churches of the old Protes - Anglican community within the United tant mainline are hollowing out. Theo - A LIVING CHURCH Partner States and in the world as a whole. logical liberalism does not look like the future of the Church. Liturgy and Mission The future may lie instead in the for - St. John’s Church Like other churches of the old Protes - gotten, neglected, and abandoned 146 1st St., Troy, Ny 12180 tant mainline, the Episcopal Church has legacy of Reformed and Catholic doc - 518.274.5884 | stjohnstroy.org endured decades of demographic trine embedded in the historic prayer A brownstone church in a Rust Belt city, decline, and the end is not in sight. books. In its clear teaching about guilt, St. John’s, Troy, lives out its faith in Congregational growth and develop - grace, and gratitude, expressed in lan - relationship to its ment is a priority, and much energy is guage of conviction, clarity, and weight, neighborhood. On Sunday being invested in the exploration of in forms that draw from Scripture and mornings our church fills up techniques, practices, and processes ancient tradition, this legacy supports a with worshipers; on that might reverse the decline. Perhaps strong proclamation of the gospel. This Saturday mornings our not coincidentally, leaders from the pre - legacy delivers the resources for the parish hall fills up with siding bishop on down have been tap - Church’s mission, with power to moti - unchurched persons who ping into the language of the old prayer vate conversion and congregational come to visit our thrift shop, books. Words like gospel , Jesus , grace , adhesion. Of course, liturgy alone can - our food pantry, our parish and sin have enjoyed a return to favor, not bear the whole weight of mission. If nurses, and a hospitality though it is not always clear what they that were so, then all old prayer book ministry that includes coffee, bread, and mean. Will the use of evangelical lan - parishes would be bustling with evan - a community Bible study. In our guage, Catholic aesthetics, and congre - gelistic energy. If we are going to pray experience, each day depends on the gational building techniques be the gospel in the prayer book, we must other for its health. Our service to the sufficient to reverse the decline of a lib - also believe, understand, preach, teach, world flows out of and is shaped by our eral Protestant denomination? There and practice the gospel. For the sake of worship of the Risen Lord; and our are grounds for doubt. the Church’s mission, we need to redis - worship of the Risen Lord is shaped and The paradox of theological liberalism cover the prayer book. Even more, we vitalized by our relationships with our is that it is failing ecclesiastically even as need to rediscover the gospel it empow - neighbors. They change our prayers; they it is triumphing culturally. Precisely as ers us to pray. expose our needs; they prove the limits of secular culture takes possession of its our faith, hope, and love, and send us to emphasis on the authority of human The Rev. Gavin Dunbar is the rector of the altar seeking more. spiritual experience over that of divine St. John’s Church, Savannah, and presi - revelation, there is no need for it to be dent of the Prayer Book Society, USA.
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Charles, 994 N. 5th Ave., St Charles, IL The Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel III is interim 60174. A LIVING CHURCH Partner dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, The Rev. Dan Wall is vicar of Ascension, 1047 Amsterdam Ave, New york, Ny 10025. 183 Fork-Bixby Rd., Advance, NC 27006. The Rev. Kelly Demo is an associate priest at St. Thomas, Overland Park, 12251 Antioch Ordinations St. Stephen’s Church Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213. Deacons 82 Kimberly Dr., The Rev. Emily Dunevant is rector of Idaho — Beverley Rader Lugo Durham, NC 27707 Grace, 2955 River Rd. W., Goochland, VA Los Angeles — Patrice Lonnette Angelo 919.493.5451 23063. Texas — Jane Barker , Aston Brown , Nan - ststephensdurham.dionc.org The Rev. Canon H. Douglas Dupree is dra Perry , and Paul Skeith canon theologian in the Diocese of Florida, Founded in 1959, St. Stephen’s Episcopal 325 N. Market St., Jacksonville, FL 32202. Priests Church is a welcoming faith community The Rev. 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A LIVING CHURCH Partner April 9, 2017 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 25 THE LIVING CHU RC H SUNDAy’S READINGS | Palm Sunday, April 9 VoLUme 254 • nUmBeR 6 Isa. 50:4-9a • Ps. 31:9-16 • Phil. 2:5-11 • Matt. 26:14-27:66 or 27:11-54 eDIToRIAL Executive Director and Editor Dr. Christopher wells Managing Editor John schuessler All Have Sinned Senior Editor Douglas LeBlanc he hour is coming and now is when (Matt. 27:25). Beware! Within living Associate Editors those who preach the gospel must memory of the Holocaust, an anti-Se - Jeff Boldt T Dr. Zachary Guiliano state their case in the clearest possible mitic poison is leaching into the cul - The Rev. Canon Jordan Hylden terms, not only for the edification of ture, and drawing again from Church News Editor matthew Townsend Christ’s body but in firm opposition to sources. Let it not be so among you. Associate Editor for International News John martin those, many of whom presume to you have heard too about the Ro - Assistant Editor The Rev. emily Hylden speak in the name of the Church, who man governor Pilate, and the gover - Correspondent G. Jeffrey macDonald pervert the gospel and hijack its lan - nor’s soldiers, agents of the so-called Seminary Fellow melissa Ritz guage, symbols, and history to advance Pax Romana. The violence against Je - a narrow vision of apocalypse and dis - sus is not the act of one person or BUsIness AnD FULFILLmenT Office/Business Manager aster. The central Christian claim is group. Reading the story, hearing the Ruth schimmel that Jesus Christ rose from the death story, feeling it in the fiber of one’s be - Administrative Assistant Beverly mantyh and that his life, teaching, death, and ing, it is impossible to miss that “all ADVeRTIsInG resurrection are for the life of the have sinned and fallen short of the Advertising Manager Carrie Knight world, the entire world. Jesus is the re - glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). The guilt is mARKeTInG capitulation of humanity in one divine universal, as is the forgiveness Jesus of - Kevin shanley & Associates person. If there is a part, even a speck fers: “Father, forgive them for they ARCHIVes of humanity, for which he did not know not what they are doing” (Luke Richard J. mammana, Jr. come and give his life, then he is not 23:34). This is not a story against the BoARD oF DIReCToRs the Savior of the World. Classically Jews, or any other group. It is the story President: The Rt. Rev. D. Bruce macPherson, edmond, okla. stated: “If he did not assume it, he did of love universally rejected. “There is Vice President: Dr. Grace sears, Berea, Ky. not save it” (Gregory of Nazianzus, no one who is righteous, not even one” secretary: Daniel muth, Leland, n.C. Epistle 101). (Rom. 3:10). The Rt. Rev. Dr. John C. Bauerschmidt, nashville But indeed, he assumed everything Think of yourself. Feel the truth marie Howard, Jacksonville, Fla. and everyone. “When I am lifted up about your life. Acknowledge your fail - Richard J. mammana, Jr., new Haven, Conn. The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. martins, springfield, Ill. on the cross, I will draw everything to ure and cruelty, even if it arises only as The Rev. Canon e. mark stevenson, Dallas myself” (John 12:32, my trans.). The prejudiced and hurtful thoughts. yes, Treasurer: The Rev. s. Thomas Kincaid III, Dallas neuter plural is well attested, and God loves you, but you are not perfect, should not be rejected merely because not even close. 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26 THe LIVInG CHURCH • April 9, 2017 SUNDAy’S READINGS | Easter Day, April 16 Acts 10:34-43 or Jer. 31:1-6 • Ps. 118:1-2, 14-24 Col. 3:1-4 or Acts 10:34-43 • John 20:1-18 or Matt. 28:1-10 Today his, the most joyful day of the early on the first day of the week, still TChristian year, the feast of the res - dark. She was surprised to see the urrection of Jesus Christ from the stone carried away — a verb to con - dead, is the very cause of the Church’s sider again in a few moments. She re - being. Everything the Church has ports this to Peter and the Beloved Dis - taught, confessed, and believed hinges ciple. The Beloved Disciple, arriving upon this proclamation. Jesus Christ first, looks into the tomb, and sees the has been raised from the dead. linen wrappings void of a body. Then, As if fearing even to question this entering the tomb, he sees a second central claim, St. Paul remarked: “If time and believes, but what he believes Robust Growth Christ has not been raised, then our is unclear. proclamation has been in vain and St. John says, “for as yet they did not Drawing, Changing & Sending People your faith have been in vain” (1 Cor. understand the scripture, that he must through the Power of Christ is the mis - 15:14). To this he added an immediate rise from the dead” (John. 20:9). Con - sion statement of Christ Church, and we and strong affirmation: “But in fact sider this supposition: That the live it. Situated in urban Christ has been raised from the dead” Beloved Disciple believed Jesus was San Antonio, Christ (1 Cor. 15:20). The long season of Lent dead and his body was gone. The story Church draws people and the sorrows of Holy Week are picks up with Mary Magdalene, who from 15 Zip Codes and taken up in the final victory of Christ sees two angels at the head and foot of from all walks of life. over death. where the body had been. Turning, she The leading edge of That is the Easter claim. And yet sees Jesus, but not recognizing him, our robust growth has whether that claim finds a home in our and supposing him to be the gardener, been individuals and hearts is, to be sure, another matter. she asks, “Sir, if you have carried him families, who are The resurrection is a part, though away, tell me where you have laid him, between 20 and 40 years the culminating part, of a wider and and I will take him away” (John 20:15). old. They come to be complex story and a cluster of symbols She wants to carry his body, just as changed , as we ask all associated with the days preceding the Joseph of Arimathea had earlier car - newcomers to complete first Easter. Friday past, called Good ried his body. These are gestures of Christ Church 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0 , which Friday, is the day of Christ’s suffering love and profound devotion. Love de - invite participants into the foundational and death, a moment of goodness diffi - mands that we stay with the dying and truths and life of our exciting Christian cult to grasp. Holy Saturday is the day keep company with the dead, and feel faith. of silence and solitude, the day when, the weight of loss. But there is more, And all of us expect to be sent . Every hidden from view, Christ descended to something wrapped in a mystery I can - year we send mission teams to Hon - the depths of death and hades. He suf - not unravel. Jesus calls Mary by her duras, Guatemala, Uganda, and into fered and died, and descended among name. Only then does she know, only inner cities across the United States. All the dead. Today, however, we say and then does she believe. we need is for you to join us on this proclaim and sing the resurrection of Names are powerful. yours is the gospel adventure! Christ. So it is, for instance, that a sound by which Christ reveals himself priest, in the final moments of a fu - today, as he did to Mary so long ago. Christ Episcopal Church neral liturgy, says with boldness and He can speak you into his resurrection. 510 Belknap Pl., San Antonio, Tx 78212 daring: “All we go down to the dust; Listen. 210.736.3132 | cecsa.org yet even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia” (Burial, Look It Up A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor 1979 BCP, pp. 482-83). Read Acts 10:39: witnesses. The proclamation of the resurrec - tion is made quite clearly in the face of death. But doesn’t death mean the end? Isn’t death closure? Isn’t the body’s end Think About It dissolution and nothingness? He is your life. The answer is a story. When, ac - cording to St. John’s account, Mary Magdalene arrived at the tomb, it was
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Thomas Kincaid III, Dallas, Texas exceptional leadership and training to TSM students. reach efforts, further empowering our church commu - Duties include: oversee DMin program; teach DMin class The Rt. Rev. Dr. Graham Kings, London, England nity to make a difference outside of our doors. We seek and project preparation class; teach courses in Pastoral a dean who is a compassionate pastor, who welcomes The Rt. Rev. Edward S. Little II, Granger, Ind. Theology; oversee and teach Field Education. Account - everyone, and who will help us continue to grow in an abilities include: teach residentially on the Ambridge cam - ever-changing church landscape. Our strengths include The Rt. Rev. D. Bruce MacPherson, Edmond, Okla. pus and occasionally online or off-site; supervise Masters a welcoming and diverse church community, a beauti - and Doctoral theses; preach and officiate (if ordained) reg - ful historic building, great programs for children and Richard J. 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