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. You can listen to audio of Dr. Wells’ second series of lectures from December of 2019 at the bottom of this page.
The overarching topics of these lectures was “Communion Transformations”. These lectures charted the emergence of a wider Anglican “communion” beyond England along the same Augustinian lines, with special attention given to the contribution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. The founding texts of the Episcopal Church, the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral, and the towering Lambeth Conference of 1920 will be called upon to illustrate the decided pull of catholicism, turned outward in hopeful service to the whole Church.
