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Welcome, join us for a lecture series
on Anglican History!

How Many Anglicans Does it Take?

A survey of formative events and crises in the Anglican tradition

with The Rev. Dr. Iain Luke, Principal, College of Emmanuel & St Chad

• The Reformation and the 1640s Civil War imprinted the cost of religious strife on the English psyche. What emerged was a national church which recognized different influences within itself, and struggled to define the limits within which those influences could coexist peaceably.



Sessions will take place in The Cathedral Upper Hall in the Office Building

(816 Spadina Crescent) on Thursday evenings, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.




Thursday 12 January---Born in Conflict

• 7:00 pm in the Church Hall
• The Reformation and the 1640s Civil War imprinted the cost of religious strife on the English psyche. What emerged was a national church which recognized different influences within itself, and struggled to define the limits within which those influences could coexist peaceably.



Thursday 19 January---A Lively Faith

• 7:00 pm in the Church Hall
• The 18th century evangelical revival had a series of impacts on the church, thanks to men and women like the Wesleys, Hannah More, and William Wilberforce. They breathed fresh life into stagnant institutions, demanded personal commitment to Christian faith, and took part in major social changes like the rise of the urban working class, the expansion of the empire, and the abolition of slavery.



Thursday 26 January---NO SESSION

• No Session
• No session this week to accomodate the de Margerie Lecture (Week of Prayer for Christian Unity)



Thursday 02 February---Reclaiming a Treasure

• 7:00 pm in the Church Hall
• Divergence between church and state in England, along with the birth of Anglican churches overseas, raised fundamental questions of identity. The 19th century Oxford Movement offered an answer which transcended national boundaries: the church as a spiritual society, its authority entrusted to it by God, its purpose to be the body of Christ in which God's grace is both experienced and communicated.



Thursday 09 February---Engaging the World

• 7:00 pm in the Church Hall
• The "broad church" began life as the muddled middle of Anglicanism, too preoccupied with playing the political game. It came into its own in the social upheavals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reaching an apex with Archbishop William Temple's famous saying, "The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members."



You are welcome to attend as many sessions as you are able!