Upcoming Saturday Seminar in Halifax
The fourth in our series of Saturday Seminars will take place Saturday, April 25 at St. George’s Round Church in Halifax. Here is the schedule:
Schedule for April 25
9:15 am Morning Prayer
9:30 am Holy Communion
10:30 am Book Review of a recent publication
10:45 am The Rev’d Canon Dr. Ross Hebb: “Anglicanism in the 18th century”
Evangelicals and Slavery, Reform and Reaction.
Tractarians - a matter of Emphasis?
Old High Church, Ritualists and Anglo-Catholics.
New Breeds - Broad and Low Churchmen.
International Anglicanism and the Lambeth Conferences.
Expansion and Growth in the Maritimes - Bishops Medley and Binney
and the rural, wooden, Anglican Church building.
Q & A to follow.
12 noon Mid-day Prayers
12:15 pm Potluck Lunch
1:30 pm Book Review of a recent publication
1:45 pm The Rev’d Canon Dr. Gary Thorne: “Anglicanism in the 18th century”
Increasingly celebrated by secular scholars who deny her embrace of the Gospel,
Simone Weil is a contemporary pilgrim sadly overlooked by our Church.
Q & A to follow.
4 pm Evening Prayer
These Seminars are intended to help us discover the Anglican Tradition as consensus fidelium from the early Church through to the contemporary, through a consideration of ecclesiology, spiritual pilgrimage, liturgy, pastoralia, and theology. The teaching will be practical, will not assume previous theological study, and designed to help all of us contribute to the building up of our parishes in the Anglican Tradition: Catholic and Reformed.
At the very first Atlantic Theological Conference, Father Crouse suggested how we might contribute to the renewal of our parishes: by all of us becoming theologians.
First of all, we must ourselves become better theologians. And that means, I think, that we must immerse ourselves more and more fully in the Scriptures and the theological tradition of the Church. This is difficult, of course, as all intellectual work is difficult; but surely we are not so intellectually degenerate that we cannot read and begin to understand the great classical works of Christian theology.