American and Anglican: Anglicanism as the Founding Faith of the Colonies and the American Republic
- August 19, 2021
- by
- Steve Macias
Did you know the first Communion service in the New World happened on the West Coast using the Anglican Book of Common Prayer? What church did American members of the Church of England (like George Washington) belong to after the English lost the Revolutionary War? How did Anglicanism become the Episcopal Church in the United States?
Starting with Sir Francis Drake, this video is a survey of the significant Anglican leaders that helped forge America’s religious identity from the pre-colonial period through the start of the 20th century.
1:26 – Sir Francis Drake 3:10 – Jamestown (1607) 4:50 – Thomas Dale & Dale’s Laws 6:30 – The invention of the Vestry 10:00 – Pocahontas 12:00 – Assembly of Burgesses 15:10 – Plymouth Colony (1620) 21:30 – Quakers 23:30 – John Hooper 28:27 – Charles II & Claredon Code (1660s) 30:30 – King’s Chapel/Christ Church 30:46 – William’s Rhode Island 32:00 – Connecticut and Yale College 34:00 – Samuel Johnson & Colombia College 34:45 – New York and the Dutch 40:00 – Anglican Commissaries 43:00 – Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 48:00 – Revolutionary War 52:00 – Post-Revolutionary Anglicanism 54:15 – Maryland Conference (1780) 56:36 – Samuel Seabury 1:01:00 – Philidephia Convention (1785) 1:04:30 – William White and Samuel Provoost 1:07:00 – American Constitution 1:12:30 – Weak Post-War Church 1:12:30 – Weak Post-War Church 1:16:00 – Alexander Griswold 1:22:00 – John Henry Hobart 1:29:45 – Richard Channing Moore 1:34:50 – Philander Chase 1:44:00 – Missionary Bishops (1835) 1:44:06 – Jackson Kemper 1:47:30 – James Lloyd Breck 1:51:15 – James Hervey Otey 1:55:20 – William Ingraham Kip 1:57:00 – “Bishop of All Outdoors” 2:01:00 – Ecumenism 2:03:00 – The Anglican Communion 2:05:35 – The Lambeth Quadrilateral
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1 Comment
George Luke
3rd Jun 2024 - 11:07 pmFr. Steve, thank you. Been exploring Anglicanism. I was a Greyfriar, and been chatting with my pastors here in Moscow about Anglicanism. Went through a period of recovering my confidence in the Doctrine of the Word, and was helped by Kruger’s Canon Revisited, and Webster’s mongraph on Holy Scripture. Making my way through Whitaker’s Disputation on Scripture.
We’re near an ACNA called Christ the King, and I’m supposed to chat with Fr. Jerry Cimijotti. One of the things we’re balancing is the liturgical blessing of paedocommunion, with thinking through apostolic succession and the normative principle in worship, and the necessity of some kind of catholic tradition to provide the canonical boundaries; the whole sola aposotlica/prima scripura framework from Sean Luke has been helpful.
Been exploring YT channels like Anglican Aestheics (Sean Luke), the Other Paul, Young Anglican, Barely Protestant, and beginning to learn how to use the BCP for devotions. It seems you’re friends with Uri Brito, and that we cross influencs in the Kuyperian Calvinist, Theopolitan, CR strands. Thanks so much for your Anglican 101 resources.
Any case, thank you for your work for the Kingdom. I responded on the YT page for this speech, but wanted to say thank you- you’re helping me to recontexualize a lot that I could only see being provided through the CREC.