Wednesday, January 11, 2006

The Thirty Nine Articles

For those who are interested in learning more about the Thirty-Nine Articles, I recommend the new Church Society website.

http://www.churchsociety.org/issues/doctrine/iss_doctrine_39A_history.htm
The history of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion

http://www.churchsociety.org/issues/doctrine/iss_doctrine_39A_importance.htm
The continuing importance of the Thirty Nine Articles

http://www.churchsociety.org/issues/doctrine/iss_doctrine_39A_Ryle.htm
J.C. Ryle on the 39 Articles

http://www.churchsociety.org/issues/doctrine/iss_doctrine_39A_Allister.htm
Donald Allister in a series of Articles in Cross†Way examines why the 39 Articles are still important today

http://www.churchsociety.org/issues/doctrine/iss_doctrine_39A_salvation.htm
The Doctrine of Salvation in the Thirty-Nine Articles

http://www.churchsociety.org/churchman/documents/Cman_116_3_Harp.pdf
Churchman Article: Recovering Confessional Anglicanism
Gillis Harp discusses how best to apply the 39 Articles in today's church after years of neglect and misinterpretation. (Churchman 116/3) (PDF file)

Church Society sells printed versions of the Articles and a classic and substantial work on the Articles by W H Griffith-Thomas. See the Publications page for details.

The Text of the 39 Articles (including the modern rendering) can also be downloaded.

The Principles of Theology: An Introduction to the Thirty-Nine Articles by W D Griffith-Thomas and An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion: Historical and Doctrinal by Edward Harold Browne can be ordered from Episcopal Recorder, the publication and distribution arm of the Reformed Episcopal Church. Go to http://homepage.mac.com/klock/ChristChurch/book.htm

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