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Henry VIII

Sunday December 22

Queensland Anglicans at the 2022 Lambeth Conference

Knowing me, Knowing You: understanding the “A-word" (and it’s not “Abba”)

“The challenging point is that knowing oneself as an Anglican does not come automatically, depending on your definition of ‘knowing’. For many of us, we have a feeling of what being an Anglican is. Ask a group of Anglicans ‘What is Anglican?’ after church one morning and you’ll receive a varied collection of answers,” says Jonathan Sargeant from St Francis College

The European Reformations: what do the stories of everyday people tell us?

“Students and strangers often tell me, sotto voce and slightly awkwardly, that history was never their favourite subject at school. They then often explain that they were told to memorise lists of king and queens or prime ministers, or dates and places of major events, all with little context. To me, that is not history. History is not primarily concerned with the when and where – history is the study of people and the world they lived in,” says Dr Sheilagh O’Brien from St Francis College

William Tyndale of Tindale (c1494-1536), English translator of the Bible, on the morning of his death, giving his jailer a packet for John Rogers (pseudonym of Thomas Mather) thought to have contained his work on the Old Testament (late 19th century wood engraving)

William Tyndale: the most dangerous man in Tudor England

“Such was the anxiety about Tyndale’s translation that King Henry VIII bought 3,000 copies and had them burnt. However, this was to Tyndale’s advantage – for while the books were destroyed, he still received the proceeds of the sale! Having completed his translation of the New Testament, Tyndale began working on a translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew,” says The Rev’d Canon Dr Marian Free, as Tyndale is commemorated in our Lectionary on 6 October

Who was Archbishop Cranmer and what was the context of his time?

Hear Bishop Jonathan Holland share about the genius of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer: “He said ‘We’ll put together a prayer book’…The first Prayer Book came out in 1549. It was a little bit conservative, but it began to pick up all the kinds of ideas and principles that were in Thomas Cranmer’s head”

Defining and deciding as an Anglican

Reflecting upon the history and origins of Anglicanism, Jonathan Sargeant presents two modern-day scenarios and asks “What would you, as an Anglican, do?”

The Origins of Anglicanism – what difference did Henry VIII actually make?

The Rev’d Dr Jo Inkpin discusses the historical origins of the Anglican Church, explaining that “No one figure or aspect has ever been wholly dominant in the origins and character of Anglicanism”