Theologians

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    Introducing Browne’s Exposition of the 39 Articles

    Posted on July 13, 2026
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    Anglican Compass is proud to announce the republication of 19th-century bishop E. Harold Browne’s An Exposition of the 39 Articles: Volume One, the first of four volumes, now available on Kindle and in hardcover on Amazon. Complete with gently updated prose and featuring helpful commentary by James Clark, this new edition resurrects one of the most insightful…

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    J.I. Packer: A Rookie Anglican Guide

    Posted on June 25, 2026
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    J.I. Packer became an international figure through scores of pamphlets and books, especially his 1973 bestseller, Knowing God. Packer’s institutional engagement is less famous than his books but arguably even more influential.

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    Anglican America: From the Founding to the Future

    Posted on February 3, 2026
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    For more than 400 years, the Anglican tradition has played a central role in the development of the United States of America. The intellectual culture of recent decades has obscured this historical truth, both on account of revisionist historians who see America as a secular nation and also by the failure of Anglicans to tell…

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    An Anglican Appreciation for Aquinas

    Posted on January 27, 2026
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    Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican friar, priest, philosopher, and above all, a theologian. He is best known for his massive work, the Summa Theologiae, which summarizes the main tenets of the Christian faith.

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    Book Review: Christian Dogma by Darwell Stone

    Posted on January 19, 2026
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    Darwell Stone, Expanded by Thomas Plant. Christian Dogma: Outlines of Orthodox Anglican Theology. Anglican House, 2025. What Great Tradition? It is very common to hear Anglicans appeal to a solid body of doctrine that existed in the past. Christians have referred to it by various names: the ancient faith, the “little-c” catholic Faith, the Great…

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    We Believe: We Look for the Resurrection of the Dead

    Posted on December 30, 2025
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    Every Sunday, Christians rise to confess the faith once delivered: “We believe in one God… We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ… We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.” The Nicene Creed moves with a steady rhythm of affirmations, statements about what God has done in history, and what he has promised to…

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    Book Review: A Little Theology of Exercise by David Mathis

    Posted on October 7, 2025
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    David Mathis’s A Little Theology of Exercise: Enjoying Christ in Body and Soul is a concise book on the benefits of exercise for the Christian life. The subtitle “enjoying Christ in body and soul” is at the heart of the book. Mathis, a pastor at Cities Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and an adjunct professor…

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    Book Review: ESV Expository Commentary

    Posted on September 29, 2025
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    Over the last few years, Crossway has released a new Biblical commentary series called ESV Expository Commentary. Of course, with their publication, every new Bible commentary series must answer the same fundamental question: what—if anything—sets it apart? Do We Really Need Another Bible Commentary Series? Pastors, teachers, scholars, and lay readers all ask this whenever…

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    E.A. Litton: An Evangelical and Catholic Theologian

    Posted on September 22, 2025
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    Anglicans can sometimes be stereotyped as having no good theology. We might have a great liturgy, inspiring preaching, and beautiful worship, but we aren’t always thought of as a theological people. In this post, I hope to dispel that rumor by introducing you to E.A. Litton, a forgotten gem of a theologian you may not…

    Book Review: Tim Keller on the Christian Life by Matt Smethurst

    Posted on September 10, 2025
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    Matt Smethurst, Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2025. 240 pp. $27.99 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-4335-9619-3. As a best-selling author and pastor in the heart of New York City, Tim Keller modeled a faith not threatened by intellectual inquiry but enriched by it. In this short, approachable…