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Books I Read in January 2021
- February 01, 2021
- by
- Steve Macias
In January 2021, I finished 10 books. Here’s what I’ve been reading:
Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey
Link: https://amzn.to/3j8Jqwf
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
by Rod Dreher
Link: https://amzn.to/3rhJMDz
Benedict’s Way: An Ancient Monk’s Insights for a Balanced Life
by Lonni Collins Pratt, Daniel Homan
Link: https://amzn.to/3tkQLgW
Mark for Everyone (The New Testament for Everyone)
by NT (Tom) Wright
Link: https://amzn.to/3aoK44D
The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality
by Greg Peters
Link: https://amzn.to/3cy4JWC
Orthodox Anglican Identity: The Quest for Unity in a...
How Benedictine Spirituality Came to Celtic Christianity and the English Church
- January 29, 2021
- by
- Steve Macias
The formalization of religious monasticism into the fabric of Christian identity coincided with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Historians mark the year 476 AD as its end when its last emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed. It is in crisis where monasticism takes on a truer sense of its own Christian identity.
Reflecting on the impact of monastics, Archbishop Rowan Williams writes:
“The life that Augustine, Aidan, Hilda and others lived was one that offered a new future to those around...
Prayerbook Asceticism
- January 22, 2021
- by
- Steve Macias
The Anglican Book of Common Prayer reintroduces a monastic identity to the Church in England in two significant ways.
First, it’s nearly the same narrative of St. Benedict’s own Rule. When the way of the ancient monastery had become overly complicated by long and difficult to follow rules, St. Benedict introduced a simple plan for balance. Cranmer follows the same example in offering the Daily Office as a simplified monastic rite.
Secondly, Cranmer also maintains the integrity of Benedict’s three-fold...
The Optimistic Ebb and Flow of Moorman’s History
- January 20, 2021
- by
- Steve Macias
Dr. John R. H. Moorman’s book A History of the Church in England (A&C Black: 1953) outlines nearly two millennia of the Church’s history in the British Isles. Moorman traces the history of Christianity in England back to the early Christian accounts of men like Tertullian in the 3rd century and throughout its various Celtic, Roman, and Norman periods. More attention is given to the last several centuries as English identity embraces its own resentment of Papal authority from the...
Jesus Heals a Deaf Man (St. Mark 7:31)
- January 19, 2021
- by
- Steve Macias
Lower Chapel at Canterbury Christian School for January 19, 2021.
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Monks and Monasticism in the Anglican Tradition
- January 18, 2021
- by
- Steve Macias
The bones of the monastic hours can certainly be found in Cranmer’s daily offices, but what influence did monasticism have on the development of Anglican theology? From St. Aidan’s Lindisfarne community to Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, asceticism played a significant role in the historical, political, and religious development of the theology of the Church in England. The Prayerbook assumes certain ascetic principles and abandons or ignores others. In this paper, I’d like to explore how early English monasticism...