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Inquiring Minds Class Outline

 

 

Session 1: Getting Started                                   Focus:  Overview of Class, The Episcopal Church as One Among Many, Inquiring Minds Want to Know

 

 

Session 2:  So What Do We Anglicans Believe? Focus:  Realities that set Episcopalians apart including those wonderful Creeds and how we live into them.

Read: The Christian Moral Life: Practices of Piety, by Timothy F. Sedgwick (pages 25-29); Welcome to the Episcopal Church (pages 64-75), by Christopher L. Webber; and Those Episkopols, Chapters 1-3 (pages 1-21), by Dennis Maynard.

 

 

Session 3: Salvation the Anglican Way                Focus: How Anglicans Understand Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Salvation

Read:  Those Episkopols, Chapters 3, 4, and 8 (pages 23-28 and 50-57); The Place of Scripture, Tradition and Reason, from The Official Report of the Lambeth Conference, 1998; and Responding to Questions of Faith the Anglican Way

 

 

Session 4: Episcopal Particulars                          Focus:  The Role of ritual in worship and why we

of Liturgy and Practice                                         do the things we do (written prayers, saints, the

cross, bowing, genuflecting, Holy Communion, etc.) 

Read: Those Episkopols, Chapter 6, pages 37-43; A People Called Episcopalians, Chapters IV and V (pages 17-25) by John Westerhoff; and The Liturgy Explained (pages 35-48) by Thomas Howard.

 

 

Session 5: Taking First Steps                              Focus: The Place of Prayer & Sacrament of Baptism

Read:  Those Episkopols, Chapter 5 (pages 29-35) and Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, pp. 2-7, 14-15.

 

 

Session 6: Anglican Polity and the                       Focus: The Anglican Communion, The Episcopal

Ministry of the Baptized                                       Church Structure and Your Place In It

                                                                              For Episcopalians, our resurrected life begins

                                                                              down here. Where do you fit as you embrace

ownership, membership and full belonging in the community of faith that is your church?

                                                                             Read:  Those Episkopols, Chapters 7 and 9-11 (pages 45-49 and 59-                                                                             70); Cornerstone Project pamphlets on What is a congregation?                                                                             What is a Vestry?

 

 

 
 

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