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An Introduction to the EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Preface
CONTENTS
Chapter I. The Church's History
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Chapter II. The Church's Government
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Chapter III. The Church's Bible
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Chapter IV. The Church's Prayer Book
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Chapter V. The Church's Lore. THE CHURCH YEAR
CHURCH BUILDINGS
CHURCH SYMBOLISM
VESTMENTS
COMMUNION LINEN AND VESSELS
CHURCH CUSTOMS
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Chapter VI. The Church's Prayer Life
THE LORD'S PRAYER
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Chapter VII. The Church's Moral Law
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
THE BEATITUDES
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Chapter VIII. The Church's Doctrine
THE DOCTRINE OF GOD
GOD THE FATHER
GOD THE SON
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT
THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATON
THE DOCTRINE OF EVIL
THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH
THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAST THINGS
THE CREEDS
The Apostles’ Creed
The Nicene Creed
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Chapter IX. The Church's Sacraments
BAPTISM
PENANCE
CONFIRMATION
EUCHARIST
MATRIMONY
UNCTION
ORDERS
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Chapter X. The Church's Requirements
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Appendix A. Preparation for Confirmation
Appendix B. An Aid to Self-Examination
Appendix C. Prayers. In Preparatlon for Confirmation
In Preparation for the Holy Communion
On Entering Church
On Leaving Church
Graces
Appendix D. A Partial List of Christian Religious Classics
J.B. BERNARDIN
Forty years on, only two of these friends are alive today. As the Church and the world have continued increasingly to grow and change throughout this period, the necessity has arisen for a complete revision of the text. The Rev. Dr. Cotesworth P. Lewis and Mr. Timothy J. Kenslea of the Editorial Department of Morehouse Publishing have read the present manuscript and made challenging criticisms which have been eminently helpful. To them, as well as to the many down the years who in person or by letter have made suggestions about the book, I am deeply grateful.
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The General Theological Seminary for the education of men for the ministry of the Episcopal Church was opened in New York City in 1819; and shortly afterwards the Theological Seminary in Virginia was established at Alexandria with special emphasis on preparing men for missionary work. Since then many more have been founded throughout this country and also overseas.
The nineteenth century saw the flowering of the Evangelical Movement with its emphasis on personal piety and good works; then in polarity to it, the Anglo-Catholic or Oxford Movement, with its emphasis on the catholicity and apostolicity of the Church, and a revival of interest in church ceremonial, ritual, and catholic practice. At the same time the Church was faced with the problems produced by the new scientific knowledge in conflict with biblical and creedal statements, particularly in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution; and also by the growth of biblical criticism, in which the books of the Bible were investigated and studied by the same methods of literary and historical criticism as any other writing.
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