An Anglican account of how Christ is made present in the world



An Anglican account of how Christ is made present in the world

Introduction

Some writers have compared religions to different roads along which groups of people are traveling. The roads aren't alike, so the trip is different on each road. Some people seem to think that these different roads all lead to the same place - a good place. Many religions call this “place” God. Christianity spirituality is the quest for fulfilled and authentic life which includes believing in the values and beliefs of Christianity and making it a part of our lives so that it provides us with spirit, breath and fire for our lives. Anglican spirituality can be described as Incarnational because of it emphasis on a sacramental view of the material world as a doorway to the divine, creation of God and the goodness of sensuality and material world.

Religions deal with mystery in life. They try to provide answers to or insights into some of the unanswerable questions that have interested people as long as there have been people on earth. Religions provide a necessary element in the lives of individuals and societies.

Discussion

The term Anglican Anglicanism and its derivative, comes from the Latin ecclesia medieval England, which means English church, is used to describe people, institutions and churches, as well as the liturgical traditions and theological concepts developed by both the Church of England, in particular, as the ecclesiastical provinces of the Anglican Communion . It is also used in relation to the Anglican churches without communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury (in the UK) and many others completely independent.

Studying present and past societies has shown that religion has been an important element of most cultures. It appears that every society needs to consider the many unanswerable questions that humans have found in the mystery of life. In most societies, the religion or religions of the society try to develop meaningful answers out of the mystery. In other societies, philosophies may fill this need more than religion. An example of this was the Soviet Union. The government tried to replace religious writing and answers with the writings of Marx and Lenin and the answers found in their philosophies. It is interesting to note, also, that 71 years after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which brought communists to power, the Soviet Union allowed the Russian Orthodox Church to celebrate the 1000 year anniversary of Christianity in Russia. With the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of Communism there in the early 1990s, church attendance and the sales of religious literature increased very noticeably there.

The purpose of the readings about major religions in this course is not to decide whether religion or philosophy provides better answers or to decide whether one religion or denomination is “better” than another. The purpose is to show that a need exists in all societies to obtain answers or insights into many unanswerable questions. They are unanswerable because the answers provided by religions ...