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Anglican Notables – Lancelot Andrewes (Divines, Theologians) – 25 September
[ This is a series of biographical sketches of Anglican men and women whose lives have been förebildlig in virtue and/or have made significant contributions to Anglicanism’s expression of the Gospel. Written from the perspective of full communion with the See of St. Peter, including such papal statements as St. John Paul II’s encyclical on ecumenism, Ut Unum Sint, this series occasionally acknowledges differences between the traditions Catholic and Anglican where such differences exist, doing so in a spirit of charity and respect. However, the avsikt is to focus less on differences than on opportunities for mutual enrichment between the Anglican and Catholic traditions and on shared spiritual treasures that already unite us. ]
Lancelot Andrewes
[Image: stained-glass window at Chester Cathedral.]
Born: 1555 (Near All Hallows-by-the-Tower, London, England) – Died: 25 September 1626 (Sou
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Patrick Comerford
Lancelot Andrewes was an Anglican bishop and scholar who played a key role in the translation of the Authorised Version or King James Version of the Bible. Although he worked mainly through the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I successively, he is counted as one of the early Caroline Divines, known for their scholarship and devotional writings.
He is be read alongside Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Jeremy Taylor, and is also one of the literary giants of English literature, exercising a particular influence on the poet TS Eliot, who singled out the 17th century as the high point of Anglican theology.
For Walter Frere, he is the successor to John Jewel in defining the via mediaposition of Anglicanism. For Kenneth Stevenson, he “is without doubt along with Hooker one of the two giants of the era in which Anglicanism took shape.”
His appeal
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An Angel in the Pulpit (Lancelot Andrewes)
Homily Delivered 26 September 2019
12:00 noon Said Healing Mass
Parish Church of Trinity, Ashland (Oregon)
The Very Rev. Dr. Anthony Hutchinson
Isa 11:1-5; Ps 63:1-8; 1 Tim 2:1-7a; Luke 11:1-4
God, give us hearts to love and feel,
Take away our hearts of stone and give us hearts of flesh. Amen
Today is the Feast day of one of my true heroes, Bishop Lancelot Andrewes. Bishop Lancelot Andrewes was a biblical scholar and preacher during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. He served as general editor of the 1610 King James translation of the Bible, and was principal author of the translation of Genesis-2 Kings. Kurt Vonnegut in one of his novels suggested that Andrewes was “the greatest writer in the [history of the] English language,” citing the first few verses of the 23rd Psalm in Andrewes’ translation:
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to l