Show Notes
In this episode of Credo podcast, Matthew Barrett and Rev. Greg Peters continue their conversation about Anglican distinctives, captured in Greg’s new book, Anglican Spirituality: An Introduction.
Barrett and Peters focus in on the Eucharist, or Holy Communion, and why it truly is a means of grace, making it a true sacrament. For Peters, the Eucharist softens the soil of our heart and waters it, so that we participate in the grace of God. Thus, the Eucharist is no longer a mere intellectual recollection, but God’s real presence and thus an experience of the once and for all sacrifice of Calvary. Barrett and Peters share how their own families receive holy Eucharist on their knees with hands held out as beggars, as Luther said. They also share how the “prayer of humble access” made an Anglican out of them.
Rev. Greg Peters (PhD, St. Michael’s College) is a Professor of Medieval and Spiritual Theology in the Torrey Honors Institute of Biola University and also the Servants of Christ Research Professor of Monastic Studies and Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary. He is an Anglican Priest who serves as the Rector the Anglican Church of the Epiphany and is married with two sons.
Matthew Barrett is the editor-in-chief of Credo Magazine, director of the Center for Classical Theology, and Research Professor of Theology at Trinity Anglican Seminary, and the author of several books, including Simply Trinity, which won the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award in Theology/Ethics and On Classical Trinitarianism which won the TGC Award in Theology. He is currently writing a Systematic Theology with Baker Academic.
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