Distinctives of Anglicanism

Todd Hunter, pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Costa Mesa, CA, shares about the Distinctives of Anglicanism.

[@ritajaya4883]

I am an Anglican from Sarawak.I am blessd to be one.

[@halterrill9475]

I really appreciate the teaching . I have been attending an Anglican Church for about a year and a half , I’m trying to take an active role in the church . I’m amazed how we are a part of the Church began by Christ but we don’t have to try and proclaim that we are the only expression of Christ’s church . It’s hard for me to put into words what I have been learning

[@richlopez5896]

Because the Anglican sect only goes back to 1534. Only Jesus Christ's Catholic Church goes back to 33 A.D. The Ordinariate allows one to maintain their Anglican traditions and liturgy while being in full-union with the Apostolic See. You can have it all If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex- monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517. If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry. If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560. If you are a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the 17th century. If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582. If you are a Methodist, your religion was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744. If you are a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774. If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1829. If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1605. If you are of the Dutch Reformed church, you recognize Michaelis Jones as founder, because he originated your religion in New York in 1628. If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865. If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder. If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as 'Church of the Nazarene," "Pentecostal Gospel." "Holiness Church," "Pilgrim Holiness Church," "Jehovah's Witnesses," your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past century. If you are Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ the Son of God, and it is still the same Church. “The Lord says to Peter: ‘I say to you,’ he says, ‘that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.’ . . . On him [Peter] he builds the Church, and to him he gives the command to feed the sheep [John 21:17], and although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single chair [cathedra], and he established by his own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity. Indeed, the others were that also which Peter was [i.e., apostles], but a primacy is given to Peter, whereby it is made clear that there is but one Church and one chair. So too, all [the apostles] are shepherds, and the flock is shown to be one, fed by all the apostles in single-minded accord. If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he [should] desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?”- St. Cyprian of Carthage (The Unity of the Catholic Church 4; 1st edition [A.D. 251]). ordinariate.net/

[@HM-vj5ll]

Thanks and keep on keeping on.

[@Selahsmum]

I think theologically I line up with the traditional Anglican church in many ways, but because of the direction the church has taken over the past 100 years I could never join one.

[@richardsellsaz6865]

Join the Anglican Ordinariate like all the traditional Anglicans did.They are in full union with the Bishop of Rome and get to keep all of their songs,liturgical traditions,and patrimony while enjoying the unity of the Catholic Church.you can look up 'Anglican Use" on here or Google it.only the most leftist and heretical are still Anglican in the west

[@frankherbert6476]

Check out Eastern Orthodoxy. Old school since 33 A.D. You'll probably be surprised how much you agree with their beliefs.

[@JustinMorgan105kg]

Frank Herbert Eastern Orthodoxy has many redeeming qualities, but the Nazarene Jews (aka members of “The Way) of Jerusalem would not have recognized themselves as anything similar to modern Eastern Orthodoxy. I would say Orthodoxy in its official sense began in 325 at the council of Niceaea, but in 33 AD it would be a decade or so before they would even recognize non Jews as being able to be saved without going through a formal conversion to Judaism first. As the church grew and God spoke through men and Paul went out as an Apostle to the Gentiles then maybe you could tie the beginnings of Eastern Orthodoxy to a period late in the 1st century, but even that would be a stretch to say that was Eastern Orthodoxy.

[@frankherbert6476]

@@JustinMorgan105kg Hey J! Thanks for the comments! Of course, 33 AD is just a humorous shot at what the True Faith is. my opinion...I think you're on the right track, but partially so...I assume you're Western/American as I am.Yep, the Orthodox Church has and is having to defend the faith-which is what the Church did in the Council of Nicaea. Here's the issue...maybe problem. Especially for us Americans. Authority. We don't mind following as long as it's my way. Look at the Protestant Reformation, especially the Radical reformation. My Grandpa, a staunch Baptist, said that all it took to start a theological argument at the church was a full pot of coffee. TO your point, which is about your POV of how Christianity formed....Yep, not an easy road. Even in the NT there were issues, and they are laid out. What do we do with them?Look at the 1st council in Acts. Who led? James. At the end he declared. It was his turf. If Martin Luther was there and disagreed, he would have been outside the faith. You mention the Nazarene Jews. I'm not sure you refer to a title as such, or an ethnic reference. Anyway, Christianity wasn't tied to Jews anyway; we can talk Cornelius later. I'm not sure what you mean by "recognizing" either. We're really talking about a belief, a way of life. This is what has been preached, taught, and defended, apophatically. For example, lets strip everything away and take the Bible. How to interpret the New Testament? Well, if we recognize the Bible, then we recognize those who assembled it and what they believed about Christ and what The Way was/is. Probably by the closest on what the Apostles preached was those that followed him. What they believed. Polycarp and Ignatius. These folks followed John! I guess I could go on, but it seems like there's a bunch of questions in your statement. Is there a True Christianity? If so, which flavor? Why? Do I decide for myself what the Bible tells me? OK, "what is the Bible?" I can't even dress myself without my wife's help. Lots to unpack here.

[@JustinMorgan105kg]

@@frankherbert6476 "The sect of the Nazarene's" was the Jewish followers of Jesus. Paul is identified as a ringleader among them in Acts 24. Several references are made to them having the Gospel of Matthew (aka gospel of the Hebrews) in its original Hebrew by Epiphanius of Salamis, and later Jerome. It's easy for you to say "Christianity wasn't tied to Jews." But that's not exactly the whole truth, and the council of Niceae did not just "defend" the faith. They ruled that people like me, Jewish Christians, would have to abandon any participation or association with the Jewish community, give up Jewish religious holidays, and abandon their participation in the synagogue service where they continued to keep the 7th day sabbath. That may not be as popular a teaching in church history, but if you research out the decrees made by the council of Nicaea you will see that they intentionally did not invite Jewish Christians. If you're attempting to tie modern Orthodox Christianity to the church of Jerusalem as a means of Authority I think you will find that there is a gray area between the first century and the council of Niceae. So you can by all means accept that church authority of Niceae and its continuation and development into modern Orthodoxy, but I do not. That's not to say that I can't recognize that many good things were done by the councils of Niceae and onward. But I also don't pretend like every decision they made was consistent with the teachings of Jesus. Jesus never told His followers to abandon the Torah, change the sabbath, or adopt Roman holidays. The decree that they forced His followers to abandon all of those is, to me, a clear sign that they were in fact not a continuation of the authority that He passed on. I don't exactly how to reconcile all that and I agree with your statement that it is a lot to unpack, but you're coming at it from a Western frame work of thinking as you said. I am Western, and American, but my frame of thinking is rooted in Orthodox Judaism.

[@Via-Media2024]

Also don't forget all the great Anglican choral music.

[@ricobonifacio1095]

People trip on how it got started etc. But if you look at most denominations, they all have human warts and flaws. Every one. The proof is in the teaching and that's what matters. And I align with Anglican teachings. If you don't, that's your own walk. Not mine.

[@johnbyronartist]

good estimation

[@WarmPotato]

The focus should be on the teachings of Christ, but this video makes it seem much more of a church focused system

[@moodydolly]

All christian denominations do it (or ought to do it), here he talks about its distinctiveness from other christian denominations, so that's why he doesn't talk about Christ teachings. I assume that he believes that all denominations teach about Christ. When you go to an anglican service, there will always be 4 readings, one of each cathegory: Old Testament, New testament, Psalm, and The Gospel, usually with a common thread between one another. (+ sermon, singing etc.) So it's structured, with the intent to support Christ' teachings.

[@adamsmith4195]

Because these are distinctives and he is not denying that the other branches of the church have Christ.

[@conniefessenden8097]

I've been a Lutheran (which wasn't bad), a Pentecostal (twice in my life), a Baptist, a Seventh Day Adventist (for 20 years), and now an Anglican which is the first time ever I've become a member of a church. I read how some of these ignorant clowns try to hold Anglicanism down to king Henry VIII divorce. But that is not how I see Anglicanism. For starters, I'm a Continuing Anglican which opposed to being an Ending Anglican. Some Anglican churches no longer believe in God and some open declare Satan as their master while elevating gays and muslims above the entire Gospel. Fortunately there are some good Anglican churches out there and they all go by the 1928 Book of Common Prayer which I have learned to love. I have studied early Christian history for many years as well as Scripture. My journey to Anglicanism is not a fast one but it was the best church I could have ever found. I have been a Biblical creationist for 16 years, so naturally I wanted a church that would agree with the Biblical view of creation and not evolution theory. Before becoming Anglican I was interested in becoming Roman Catholic. But I was not happy with what I found out about them and so I became Anglican during my investigating Roman Catholic beliefs. It was accidental how I became Anglican as I thought I walked into a Roman Catholic Church. When I walked out of that church I was already Anglican. I found exactly what I was looking for and more! I found a church that is both Protestant and Roman Catholic without the negative baggage of all the RCC problems. I found a Protestant church that breaks away from all the hard nose Protestant churches with all their Satanic conspiracy theories against the RCC. If you want the best of both worlds -- the Protestant and Roman Catholic worlds -- then you become an Anglican Catholic. Its truly the happy medium between the RCC and Protestants. Its Catholicism that still follows true Apostolic teachings. But again, only if you are a Continuing Anglican. Any other form of Anglicanism is evolution theory and gay sex.

[@frankherbert6476]

Are those different "brands" of Anglican in communion with each other? From an outsider not knowing the different labels, one really wouldn't know what each believed until being in a church that followed one of those pipelines and would scratch their head going "wait a minute...why is this so different than the one I visited in the other town?"

[@Lepewhi]

evolution 'theory'??? What's your 'theory'? And, yes I'm a Roman Catholic. And I was taught science.

[@conniefessenden8097]

@Monica Merino Wrong. I just believe in going to church. Obviously you don't understand the importance of church attendance which is why the secularists are winning.

[@conniefessenden8097]

@@Lepewhi I wrote that comment you replied on 11 months ago. I was a lay reader for my Anglican Church at the time. Though I left the Church and now returned to my Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod). Anglicans today, as I found out, are basically the same as Roman Catholics. They believe Islam is a fellow Abrahamic religion (which its not). Anglicans also place no value on Biblical creationism which is why our youth became apostate and are not atheists. Traditional Lutheran Churches believe what they preach and don't teach evolution or have Imams say prayers to Allah. I still agree with the Anglican catechism and BCP. I just don't think the Anglican priesthood believes a word that they preach. Even the most conservative Anglican Churches are too liberal for me. Better to be a Lutheran.

[@conniefessenden8097]

@Monica Merino How do you assume I've formed a relationship with a Church over Jesus Christ? Generally people who assume those things are non-church goers. I left the Anglican Church because I don't think the Anglican leaders are serious about the ministry. They're more like community organizers without any real message. I still love the liturgy of the church and every good thing it stands for. But its all an illusion if none of the leaders take it seriously. I think its a crying shame because if the Anglican Church knew their potential they could probably bring millions of people to Christ. But as it is they are losing people and gaining nobody. Now if they took the BCP seriously they would know they need to adapt to a more modern world without losing the message.

[@greggsmith8936]

Canadian Anglican here..... I am trying to get my head around of all the those in the Anglican communion... The Churches of the Anglican church of Canada all very liberal and accepting but yet in America there are those who are very Catholic in nature.... For example, people of same sex attraction are fully accepted in the Anglican church of Canada whereas the orthodox Anglicans in the U.S. this is not acceptable... Nor are women in the clergy... All baptised Christians are welcome to the Eucharist in the Anglican church of Canada... I cannot accept that as a gay man and women in my church who are clergy.

[@jprt1990]

The continuing Anglican churches in the US and Canada (like the ACNA or the Anglican Network in Canada) are conservative. But the Episcopal Church in the USA and the Anglican Church of Canada (which are the "mainstream Anglican churches" in the Anglican Communion; that is, in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury) are much more liberal.

[@jprt1990]

The reason why Anglicans seem more conservative in the US is because the only churches that call themselves "Anglican" down there are part of the ACNA. The rest are part of the (liberal) Episcopal Church and call themselves Episcopalians.

[@news_internationale2035]

How do Anglicans feel about Methodism or Lutheranism?

[@chidovimus]

Do anglicans pray to angels??

[@moodydolly]

Nope, no adoration of reliques or invocation of saints.

[@richardsaintjohn8391]

Anglo Catholics pray to the Angels and Saints.

[@chidovimus]

Richard Saint John that's not good...

[@5kydragon347]

@ Coby Valenzuela, I don’t think they actually pray to Saints. My understanding is they ask the Saints and Angels to pray for them like how you would ask a person to pray for you

[@chidovimus]

5ky Dragon what u described is literally praying to saints so that they pray to God for them

[@CN-yf3lr]

I'm Roman Catholic. My sister is from anglicans and she does not does sign of cross, pray Our Father nor receive communion; how can u explain me all these when actually Christ said to celebrate Eucharist ( body and blood), they not even confess. She is all about God God God but speaking of our Lord Jesus? rarely. If Jesus said through me you' ll get yo Father, then what da' heck Anglican do?

[@dwightschrute900]

Because the Anglicans have no central system or belief, at this point. The reformers distorted the English church and ruined it.

[@JackDSquat]

Become part of the Anglican ordinariate and recognize the Pope!

[@PeterPottorff]

Yes and Henry VIII just happened to divorce the Church in England from Pope and then seized and pillaged the monasteries and expelled the Religious from England.

[@news_internationale2035]

Even France affirmed it's sovereignty with the Gallican Church.

[@user-fk8rb8ue5h]

a purer​ form of RC my arse. Henry put himself as head of the church to get a divorce and Get the cash from the monasteries.

[@dsti-xi7dl]

The RC Church was once again established by Queen Mary, a devout Catholic. She had Archbishop Cranmer burnt at the stake at the bidding of the Roman Church. Cranmer was the first Anglican Archbishop. Upon Mary's death Elizabeth came to the throne and re-established an independent Church of England. SO pull it out and learn some history. Second, you have the nerve to bring up monasteries? Okay, let's talk about the notorious Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Essentially monastic communities of women religious who until the 1990 ran a chain of communities where women who had got pregnant ( often by rape, incest, etc. ) where they lived in conditions comparable to Dachau. They spent their time doing hours of laundry with lye soap. The laundry they washed earned the Sisters money, and the women were not allowed to leave. And the Roman catholic church in Ireland knew full well what was going on. I live a block from St. Matthews RC cathedral. Do you have any idea how much your church ( a fair assumption ? ) in this archdiocese alone has paid out in child abuse suits ? You should be ashamed. Don't slam our church Nowland.

[@dsti-xi7dl]

And here Nowland, educate yourself some more. A scene from the movie "The Magdalene Sisters. This is YOUR church. The church in Ireland had not only not denied this, it has confessed to it. The catholic church in Ireland has almost killed Christianity. Don't throw stones at us - the gig is up and nobody much respects the roman church. If you've ever been to Europe, the church is on life support. Perhaps the holy spirit is telling us, and you something. kzbin.info/www/bejne/apXUfqusf7Ggm9k

[@dsti-xi7dl]

And assuming you won't believe any of this ..."fake news" right ? Well, check out the archbishop of Dublin. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5bXpZpmg5yCpLc

[@Lepewhi]

Plus, there's not a defined definition of the Eucharist. Some, more Catholic, some more evangelical. How can it be united when they disagree on something so basic.

[@adamsmith4195]

Oh yeah? Is this the same church that lords its supposed superiority over others, calls Mary co-redemptrix and mediatrix of all graces, and still sells indulgences in the year of our Lord 2021? That church? Lmao...so pure

[@michaelburgess6556]

Dont mention Henry VIII. Ubi Petrus ibi Ecclesia

[@richardsellsaz6865]

Anglicanism is NOT Apostolic and has no apostolic succession or valid ministry.Head over to the Anglican Ordinariate of the Catholic Church if you want true Anglican traditions and the unity of the Church founded by Jesus Christ himself.

[@stevenhunter3345]

The notion that Jesus founded the Roman Catholic Church is a historical fiction. He never set foot in Rome, never spoke of Rome as the center of his church, never spoke of a supreme ecclesiastical monarch with infallible authority, and on and on. The Roman Catholic Church is what became of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church once it became the imperial religion of the Empire. And all you need to do is look at the corruption and evil it visits upon the world to know what to think of it. If you want authentic apostolic Christianity then your best options are either Anglicanism or Eastern Orthodoxy.

[@frankherbert6476]

@@stevenhunter3345 EO!, EO!, EO! The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East for example, is headquartered in Damascus, "On a Street Called Straight." kicking it Old School since 33 A.D.

[@internetenjoyer1044]

So put aside your conscience and such the toe of the Bishop of Rome and false dogmatic in return for a few paragraphs of the prayer book? Nah. I mean, i'd love to become ROman Catholic. I hate the disunity of the body of Christ, but when i look accross the Tiber to the Roman Church I don't see the Church of Christ

[@richlopez5896]

@@internetenjoyer1044 “The Lord says to Peter: ‘I say to you,’ he says, ‘that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.’ . . . On him [Peter] he builds the Church, and to him he gives the command to feed the sheep [John 21:17], and although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single chair [cathedra], and he established by his own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity. Indeed, the others were that also which Peter was [i.e., apostles], but a primacy is given to Peter, whereby it is made clear that there is but one Church and one chair. So too, all [the apostles] are shepherds, and the flock is shown to be one, fed by all the apostles in single-minded accord. If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he [should] desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?”- St. Cyprian of Carthage (The Unity of the Catholic Church 4; 1st edition [A.D. 251]). If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex- monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517. If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry. If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560. If you are a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the 17th century. If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582. If you are a Methodist, your religion was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744. If you are a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774. If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1829. If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1605. If you are of the Dutch Reformed church, you recognize Michaelis Jones as founder, because he originated your religion in New York in 1628. If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865. If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder. If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as 'Church of the Nazarene," "Pentecostal Gospel." "Holiness Church," "Pilgrim Holiness Church," "Jehovah's Witnesses," your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past century. If you are Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ the Son of God, and it is still the same Church. “[T]here are many other things which most properly can keep me in her [the Catholic Church’s] bosom. The unanimity of peoples and nations keeps me here. Her authority, inaugurated in miracles, nourished by hope, augmented by love, and confirmed by her age, keeps me here. The succession of priests, from the very see of the apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after his resurrection, gave the charge of feeding his sheep [John 21:15-17], up to the present episcopate, keeps me here. And last, the very name Catholic, which, not without reason, belongs to this Church alone, in the face of so many heretics, so much so that, although all heretics want to be called ‘Catholic,’ when a stranger inquires where the Catholic Church meets, none of the heretics would dare to point out his own basilica or house”- St. Augustine of Hippo (Against the Letter of Mani Called “The Foundation” 4:5 [A.D. 397]). ordinariate.net/

[@jerryuallera3437]

This is very much a parody of the Church.. sad

[@bossendenwoodconvict]

Going to the Church as a child, I found it very comforting. It is a Church ..one of many denominations.