In this episode, Scholastica Jacobs joins Holy C of E to discuss Herbert Kelly and Anglican religious life. Scholastica is the librarian and archivist at St Antony’s Prioryand a member of the team founding The Institute for Anglican Religious Life. Jacobs explores the ways that the love of God inspired founders of Anglican orders such as Herbert Kelly, and she muses on how God might call men and women to new expressions of religious life in our late modern society.  If you are interested in discerning a call to Anglican religious life, please email nunsandmonks@gmail.com.And feel free to contact us by email at holycofe@gmail.com or on X at @holycofe1.

In this episode, Fr David Craven joins the podcast to talk about a new house of formation for men training to be Catholic Anglican priests at Emmanuel Theological College. Calum asks his new training incumbent about discerning a call to the priesthood and becoming Catholic, and Fr David contends that God is preparing to bring about an Evangelical Catholic movement in the Church of England. Clinton asks Fr David about the mission and vision for Ladyewell, and what sort of associations we should be joining if we want to contribute to Catholic renewal in the Church. You can learn more about Ladyewell here and traditional Anglican religious life here. 

In this episode, Calum and Clinton conclude their discussion of E.L. Mascall’s the Importance of Being Human. They discuss the relationship between nature and supernature, the fall of man, and God’s call for everyone to enter into union with him through baptism, communion, and faith in Jesus Christ. Mascall follows Augustine in arguing that man’s purpose is to see and to know, to know and to love, to love and to praise God, and God can only be known through membership in the Body of Christ. 

In this week’s episode, Calum Mullett and Clinton Collister sit down to discuss E.L. Mascall’s book on theological anthropology, The Importance of Being Human. They talk about what makes humans unique, the relationship between the body, soul, and spirit, and how individual persons do (and should) relate to society.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this episode, Calum Mullett and Clinton Collister welcome The Rev Dr George Westhaver back to Holy C of E to discuss his recent lecture on finding hope in suffering. Fr George also answers questions about his ministry at Pusey House and theological formation under the influence of Robert Crouseand E.B. Pusey. Finally, we look forward to the upcoming conference on the theology of E.L. Mascall at Pusey House.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

Holy CofE regular hosts Jamie Franklin and Clinton Collister were joined by well-known scholar and priest Hans Boersma to discuss issues arising from his latest book  Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition. Topics discussed included the basics of the ancient practice of Lectio Divina (or holy reading), the commonalities of Lectio Divina and evangelical approaches to personal devotion, the role of silence, the communal practice of Lectio Divina, how to cope with wandering thoughts, Lectio Divina and the morning and evening offices, and much more.Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition by Hans BoersmaThanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this episode, we speak to Dr Roberta Bayer about the Christian Platonism of the Canadian philosopher, George Grant. Dr Bayer is a professor at Patrick Henry College, former editor of The Anglican Way magazine, and scholar working in political theory and philosophical theology. In this conversation, she helps Fr Jamie and Clinton consider what has gone wrong in modern philosophy and how Plato and the Prayer Book can inform our understanding of God and the good life.  Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this special coronation edition of the  podcast, we brought in a new host to join the Holy C of E team, Calum Mullett, and spoke to the theologian Thomas Plant about his recent essay, “Memory. Monarchy, and Metaphysics. Fr Plant is a chaplain and professor at St Paul’s University in Tokyo, a researcher at The Centre for the Study of Platonism in Cambridge, and author of the recent book, The Lost Way to the Good. He told us about his journey from atheism in England, to spiritual awakening in Japan, and finally to the waters of baptism in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. We also discussed the meaning and metaphysics of monarchy, and why Christians should give thanks for its symbolical and sacramental reality in Great Britain.  Find Fr Thomas at https://liturgicalasia.substack.com/. Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

Church of England priest Jamie Franklin and doctoral student of Divinity Clinton Collister sit down with author of Loving and Hating the World: Ambivalence and Discipleship James Lawson. Fr James' book makes the challenging claim that true Christian discipleship consists in neither wholly accepting nor in wholly rejecting the world but in maintaining a holy balance between those two extremes. We examined this argument in the light of theological sensibilities such as the Radical Orthodoxy movement and that of Rowan Williams. We also explored the philosophy of Charles Taylor in the same light and considered the potential for a revived Christian Platonism that sees the material world not as a prison-house for the soul but as a conduit of transcendence. In the final section of the conversation, we spoke about Rod Dreher and The Benedict Option and ask why Dreher's thesis has been given short shrift in some Anglican circles.This is a vital conversation for any Christian attempting to come to terms with our relationship to the prevailing culture and the call of God upon our lives as disciples.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

We were delighted to be joined by recently consecrated Bishop of Oswestry Paul Thomas for a fascinating and inspiring conversation on how Bishop Paul is approaching his role of encouraging priests and churches in the South West of England, the importance of the Book of Common Prayer, the role of beauty in worship and evangelism, the current challenge of cultural accommodation within the Church of England and much more besides. Bishop Paul's introduction to the Book of Common Prayer is available here.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this special episode, Clinton and Jamie talk to the author of What Do Men Want?, Nina Power. Nina is an academic and current editor of post-liberal publication 'Compact'. She has also, in recent years, become more interested in Christianity and is now attending church and preparing for baptism. In this wide-ranging interview, we spoke about the appeal of Christianity to those who have become disillusioned with the liberal dream, Nina's thoughts on sex, gender and Christianity, the role of Roman Catholic priest and author Ivan Illich in shaping Nina's thought and a lot, lot more. Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

What is the Catholic Christian understanding of marriage, family and sex? In this episode Fr Jamie Franklin and Clinton Collister speak with Fr Luke Miller, Archdeacon of London and author of A Lifelong Springtime: The Life and Teaching of Fr George Congreve SSC, about his formation in the Anglo-Catholic tradition and his recent lecture in Oxford about God’s order and purposes for marriage, family and sex.  Fr Miller draws on Scripture and the tradition of the Church to offer a perspective on what it means to be made man and woman, to be married and to follow the orthodox Christian sexual ethic. Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this episode of Holy CofE, Fr Jamie and Clinton talk about John Neville Figgis, corporate personality and freedom, and how to be a faithful member of churches and associations, with particular interest in membership in the Church of England and other Anglican provinces. Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

Fr Gerald McDermott is former Chair of Anglican Studies at Beeson Divinity School, and a prolific author and theologian working in areas of systematic and historical theology. He is currently developing his magnum opus A History of Redemption  and another work on the fundamentals of Anglican Theology and practice Deep Anglicanism. Fr Gerald is one of the most accomplished and significant theological voices working within the Anglican world today and we hope listeners find much that is of interest and help in his contribution.In this wide-ranging conversation we spoke about about the challenges posed to the contemporary church by liberalism and heterodox thinking: the nature-grace controversy; the fall and historical conceptions of original sin; monism and dualism; universal salvation and eternal damnation; evangelicalism and the role of tradition in the church; and much more besides. Fr Gerald also addressed some of the salient points from his recent online exchanges with Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart concerning many of the same issues.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

For this special episode, regular host Clinton Collister was joined by independent researcher Dr. Peter Webster to talk about the legacy of Anglican systematic theologian E.L. Mascall. Peter Webster is a historian of contemporary British Christianity. Details of his work on Eric Mascall, including the article discussed in the podcast, may be found at:  https://peterwebster.me/mascall/ E.L.Mascall was a proponent of orthodox Anglican theology and classical theism in the middle of the twentieth century, a time during which orthodoxy increasingly came under pressure as liberal trends exerted an ever more powerful influence in the Church. Peter and Clinton help us to understand the significance of Mascall as a priestly theologian and why his work is so important to engage with today.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this bumper episode, Jamie and Clinton round out this series with a thorough discussion of two significant theories of the atonement. The Abelardian view of the atonement sees the cross as an act of God's love which seeks to bring about shame for sin, repentance and reconciliation with God, whilst penal substitutionary atonement says that the death of Christ constitutes a propitiation of the wrath of God through the transference of our penalty on to Christ on the cross. We debate the merits and potential drawbacks of both of these positions.We close with some final reflections on the way that we see the death of Christ by arguing that it must not be reduced to one specific theory but can be conceived of as a confluence of atonement for sin, exemplary obedience to God and victory over the cosmic powers of death and hell.For the essay by Fr Robert Crouse 'Atonement and Sacrifice' please see here: http://www.stpeter.org/crouse/writings/atonement_and_sacrifice.htmThanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In the third part of our series on the atonement, Clinton Collister and Jamie Franklin discuss three prominent theories concerning our understanding of this issue: Christ's death and resurrection as victory over the powers of sin and darkness, the theory that Christ's death was a ransom paid to Satan in order to free human beings from the penalty of sin and the theory that Christ's death was an offering made to God in order to liberate human beings from the price that they owed to God due to sin. We plan in our fourth episode in this series to discuss the Abelardian view of the atonement and the theory of penal substitutionary atonement.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In the second part of our series on the atonement, we ask what Jesus said about his death and examine the theological witness of the New Testament, particularly the writing of Paul, looking specifically at Christ as the second Adam, the uniting of the believer with Christ in his death and the notion of Christ's righteousness imputed to us in exchange for sin.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this episode of Holy CofE, Jamie Franklin and Clinton Collister talk about the passion and death of Jesus Christ. We begin with a consider of the background presuppositions that underlie this conversation, namely, the problem of sin and the need for justice. Why could God not simply forgive us our sins out of love and mercy? Why does sin necessitate anything more, such as the death of Christ? What concepts of justice undergird our reactions against the notion of atonement?We then move on to discuss the atonement in The Old Testament types, shadows and anticipations of a suffering Messiah.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this week's special episode, Clinton and Jamie were joined by Bishop of Burnley Philip North who spoke to us about his vision for catholic evangelism in the Church of England. Is there a distinctive mode of catholic - as opposed to evangelical - evangelism and what does it look like in normal parish life? Bishop Philip also touched on the importance of personal discipleship and engaging preaching that seeks to affect not just the mind but also the heart. As always, he was also keen to stress the particular emphasis that the Anglo-Catholic movement has placed on ministry with and for deprived communities and the role of aesthetic beauty and liturgical worship in that context.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

Clinton and Jamie discuss Lent. What is Lent? What is the point of it? Shouldn't we put in an effort all the time rather than during just one season? What are the benefits of the practices of Lent such as fasting? These and many more questions are discussed and an attempt at answers is made!Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this episode, Clinton Collister and Jamie Franklin are joined by ordinand and popular public commentator Calvin Robinson. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke with Calvin about the role of education and catechesis in the Church, the family and society more widely. We also touched on the centrality of the transcendent not just for discipleship within the Church but for evangelism and outreach. Calvin also gave us his thoughts on the under-appreciated classic work of catechetical instruction The Catholic Religion by Vernon Staley!Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

Holy CofE is back for the New Year! Clinton and Jamie take on the thorny issue of confirmation. What is confirmation and what are its benefits? How does the contemporary practice differ from that of the ancient church? What is the difference between the effects of baptism and confirmation? Is the Holy Spirit imparted in confirmation only or in baptism and confirmation? And, if the latter, what is the difference between the two? Should non-confirmed but baptised Christians receive the Eucharist? Definitive answers are attempted if not guaranteed!Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

We were enormously privileged to be joined by one of the great living theologians of our time Hans Boersma. We discuss Hans' most recent work Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition. What is the relationship between creation and eschatology? How does the way that we think about the end of our existence change the way that we live today? Don't miss this fascinating and rare insight. Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

For this special episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie sat down with Fr Lee Nelson of Christ Church Waco to talk about the procreative good of marriage. What role should children play in a Christian marriage and how does God use the family to sanctify those called to family life? A wide ranging conversation which we hope will be helpful  to anybody whether single or married.Fr Jamie apologises that the gain on his microphone was turned up too high on this episode so his contribution is louder and more distorted than it should be.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this episode, Fr Jamie and Clinton Collister get into the thorny theological issues around the feasts of All Saints and All Souls: What is the intermediate state? Should we pray for the dead? What about the invocation of the saints in heaven? And what do we make of the Romish doctrine of purgatory?Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

For this special episode, Clinton Collister interviews our own Fr Jamie Franklin about his new book Charles Taylor and Anglican Theology: Aesthetic Ecclesiology. This is a wide-ranging conversation about secularism, aesthetics, art, the sacraments and the Christian church. Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this very special episode, Clinton and Jamie are joined by principal of Pusey House, Fr George Westhaver to discuss the mystical exegesis of Scripture practiced by the Church Fathers, how these exegetical practices were picked up and used in the early Oxford Movement and how we today might benefit from a rediscovery of these treasures.Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this special episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie sit down with Fr Jonathan Kanary of Brazos Fellows to talk about Spiritual Direction and Confession in the life of the Church today. More information about Brazos and about Fr Jonathan can be found here: https://www.brazosfellows.comThanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.comand follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this week's episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie talk about Duns Scotus, his theological significance and legacy. Starting with a look at the metaphysical critique of Scotus inspired by the Radical Orthodoxy school, encompassing the topics of nominalism, voluntarism and the univocity of being (we will explain!), we move on to talk about the significant differences between a Thomistic view of the fall, sin and the Incarnation and that of Scotus. After all that we consider the different answers given by Thomas and Scotus to the question of whether or not the Incarnation would have happened had mankind not fallen in the beginning. Yes, we really did get through all that in about 40 minutes!Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this special episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie sit down with principal of St Stephen's House Fr Robin Ward, talking on the nature of priesthood and the sacramental identity of the Church of England. Among other things, we discuss ideas arising from Fr Ward's book On Christian Priesthood, which seeks to recover the "cult" identity of the Church of England and of the priest as man of the Eucharist, intercessor, confessor and teacher. In it, Fr Ward "seeks to re-pristinate the doctrine of ministerial priesthood by setting it within the context of fundamental moral theology - to recall readers from all Christian traditions to the fundamental soundness of the concept of ministerial priesthood and its importance in contemporary ecumenical duologue, liturgical reform and pastoral planning." Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

In this week's episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie talk with Fr Samuel McNally-Cross about nineteenth century Anglican monastic trailblazer and eccentric Fr Ignatius Lyne. What can we learn from Fr Ignatius' life and witness and how can ordinary people embody the spirit of monasticism in their lives today?Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1

In this special episode, Clinton sits down live with Thomas Aquinas scholar Euan Grant. They discuss Aquinas' view on the relation between nature and grace and more recent takes on this controversy such as that of the Radical Orthodoxy movement. What exactly is this controversy and why does it matter so much for theology and the life of the Church today?Thanks for listening. To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1.

Clinton and Fr Jamie take a run-through issues relating to The Fall and Original Sin. How are we to understand the story of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve? What does the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil represent? What is the significance of death after The Fall? How is creation affected?  And we go for a run-through of the Church's understanding of Original Sin throughout the ages.To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1

Fr Jamie and Clinton continue our conversation on sacraments and Holy Baptism, addressing the nature of baptism and thorny questions such as how much water should be used, whether baptism at the hands of heretics is okay and if it's right to baptise children or not.To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1!

This episode begins a conversation on the topic of the sacraments and holy baptism using the work of Anglican Scholastic Darwell Stone. In this instalment, Clinton and Fr Jamie talk about the etymology of the word "sacrament" and its relationship to a theology of the sacraments, and the number of sacraments and how sacraments are to be differentiated from one another. Although we didn't quite get to baptism this time, we (almost) certainly will next time!To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1!

In this episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie continue the discussion on Michael Ramsey's The Gospel and the Catholic Church, talking about Lutheran erastianism, Calvinist presbyterianism and Romish monarchism.To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1!

In this episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie continue the discussion on Michael Ramsey's The Gospel and the Catholic Church, specifically focussing on the role of bishops and trying to answer some of the various objections that people have had about them from time to time.To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1!

In this week's episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie discuss Michael Ramsey's book The Gospel and the Catholic Church and the promise of evangelical catholicism. 

In this episode Clinton and Jamie talk about Anglican theologian John Figgis' work The Gospel and Human Needs and how it relates to our cultural situation and ministry today.To get in touch, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @holycofe1!

In this special episode, Clinton and Fr Jamie talk to Fr Ben Jeffries on the subject of the Holy Eucharist. Fr Ben is a priest at The Good Shepherd Anglican Church in Opelika, Alabama. He served on the Liturgy Task Force of the ACNA from 2015-2019, and was the lead designer for the production of the printed prayer book. He continues as the Assistant to the Custodian of the Book of Common Prayer (2019), and serves on the board of directors of Anglican House Media Ministries. He has recently written a series of articles for the North American Anglican Journal on the relationship between the Eucharistology of the Anglican Church and that of the Patristic Fathers, arguing that there is a deep congruence between the catholic view of the Eucharist and the Patristic view, and that this view can be gleaned from the Anglican formularies. We use this insight as a jumping off point for a conversation which explores themes that are vital to understanding our identity as catholic Christians today.All of Fr Ben's articles on the North American Anglican Journal, including his writings on the Holy Eucharist, can be found here.We hope you enjoy this episode of Holy C of E. If you would like to get in touch with us, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @holycofe1. If you are so minded, please rate and review us on iTunes. Thank you!

In this special episode, we welcome our first guest onto the podcast. The Rev'd Dr Greg Peters is Servants of Christ Research Professor of Monastic Studies at Nashotah House Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Monkhood of all Believers and The Story of Monasticism.  Using Athanasius' Life of St Anthony as a jumping off point, we spoke about a wide range of issues relating to monasticism and its relevance to the contemporary church and spirituality. Is monasticism an outdated form of arrogant withdrawal from the world, or can we see in monasticism a template for a life of discipleship consisting of periods of prayer and devotion intersected by loving engagement with the world around us?We hope you enjoy this episode of Holy C of E. If you would like to get in touch with us, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @holycofe1. If you are so minded, please rate and review us on iTunes. Thank you!

In this episode, Fr Jamie Franklin and Clinton Collister discuss the first chapter of E.L. Mascall's great work Corpus Christi, which is about the One Church. How can Anglicans claim to be part of the One Church of Christ when they belong to a group which split from Rome in the sixteenth century? Is there a third way to think about the Church beyond Roman institutionalism and Protestant individualism? We say yes!For the recent reprint of Corpus Christi, published by Nashotah House, please go here.We hope you enjoy this episode of Holy C of E. If you would like to get in touch with us, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @holycofe1. If you are so minded, please rate and review us on iTunes. Thank you!

In this episode, Fr Jamie Franklin and Clinton Collister talk about a sermon preached at Christ Church Cathedral Oxford by E.B. Pusey on the subject of the Rule of Faith. What is the Rule of Faith and how is it relevant to theology, the Church and our lives today?A copy of Pusey's sermon is available hereWe hope you enjoy this episode of Holy C of E. If you would like to get in touch with us, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @holycofe1. If you are so minded, please rate and review us on iTunes. Thank you!

For this introductory episode of Holy C of E, Fr Jamie and Clinton talk about how they came to be Catholic Christians in the Church of England. If you would like to get in touch with us, please send an email to holycofe@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @holycofe1. If you are so minded, you can also rate and review us on iTunes. Thank you!