Church, Ministry and Sacraments

For those of you who are considering taking the next Anglican Studies course, here is an important update:

As you may be aware, this summer MBBS became part of FPU and the FPU administration has taken over the management of the MBBS registration process. FPU was not aware of the Anglican Studies program and so that information is not yet available on their website. However, I have been in conversation with them about our Fall course: Church, Ministry and Sacraments. We are still waiting for official approval/scheduling of the course. But they have given no indication that it won't be approved.

Knowing that time is short and we can not wait for final approval to get information out to you, we are sending you what we know so far:

The dates that we requested for the course are: September 17,18; October 15,16; November 12,13. Friday evenings 5:30-9PM and Saturdays 8:30AM-4:30PM

Fr Carlos Raines is the primary instructor and Fr Van McCalister is assisting. The course is being completely re-written and will focus on ecclesiology, practical theology and sacramental theology, with a consistent view to placing these theologies in their real-life contexts, both past and present. The syllabus has been drafted and will be finalized soon. We will get that to you and to MBBS within the next week or so.

We have selected the texts, as follows. NOTE: CHECK ABEBOOKS.COM FIRST! You will save a lot of money. For example Michael Green's book on Baptism is $43 on Amazon and $2 used on AbeBooks (May ship from UK, so order early). If you took Anglican Way of Theology, you already have "Glorious Companions". The main study texts are "The Living God", "Sacramental Theology" and "Baptism". The others will be referred to in part.

Book List

Baptism - It’s Purpose, Practice and Power by Michael Green

Documents of the Christian Church by Henry Bettenson

Early Christian Fathers by Cyril Richardson

Glorious Companions by Richard Schmidt

The Living God - A Catechism by Olivier Clement [2 vols]

Sacramental Theology by Herbert Vorgrimler

Please contact us at Saint James' Cathedral if you are interested in this course.