Saint Thomas Church was proud to offer a series of nine lectures entitled “An Introduction to Anglicanism” given by Dr. Christopher Wells. These lectures were delivered in groups of three in September 2019, December 2019, and March 2020.
This first part of the course was built on the foundation of St. Augustine of Hippo’s incomparably influential theology of the Church Catholic, drawn from On Baptism, his richly scriptural and doctrinal engagement of Donatism and its associated consequences and lessons. With Augustine in hand, we sifted similarities and differences between two foundational figures of the classical Anglican period, John Jewel (Apology of the Church of England) and Richard Hooker (Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity), and examined the 39 Articles, in order to set forth the contours of several, distinctive and nascent “Anglicanisms.”
