In the second video of our exploration of the the 39 Articles, Canon Ashey discusses what these statements "do" for us as Anglicans. Citing Dr. J.I. Packer's "The 39 Articles: Their Place and Use Today," Canon Ashey describes them as declaratory, didactic, defensive and doxological.
There is some word on the street, unconfirmed, that an interest in the Thirty-nine Articles is growing. Mr. (Rev. Canon) Ashley gives a short clip (1 minute, 47 seconds).
We ask, "That's it?"
We'll ask the question again, "That's it?"
We'll pinch ourselves and conclude, "Yes, that's it."
Or, in another well-meant and failed effort to be less churlish, we'll ask the same question another way. "Can't a few more ounces of modest imagination produce, say, 5 minutes?"
By the way, we intend to open up inquiries on the Thirty-nine.
Here's the 1 minute-47 second Wunderbar-clip.
Why isn't someone interviewing Jim Packer? Getting him on the record? Or, Gerald Bray? Some heavy-hitters? Why? Because there are forces working against these 39 Articles, truth be told. Bob of Pittsburgh could fix this in about 30 days.
But, to be fully charitable, we can exclaim: "Well, at least someone offered 1 minute, 47 seconds to the topic of the Thirty-nine Articles in the United States by someone from an Anglican outlet in the year of our LORD, 2013. That is news!"
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