The 1979 Catechism places human nature in the context of the image of God. It sees the image of God in line with the classic understanding of Augustine as related to specific human cognitive capabilities. In this post, we explore where this sits in the larger Anglican consideration of the image of God and what problems this construal may raise for our understanding of our relationship to God as humans.

Here begins a series on each of the questions from the catechism from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. This first post gives a little background on the hope of the series and then an overview of catechisms in general.

Worship is hard in the stimulation saturated world we live in. But this, and the possibility of boredom it entails, is precisely why it’s so important for us to attend to have our desires reformed so that we can be disposed to the worship of God—because that’s a lot of what our hope is oriented toward.

John 12:8 and Matthew 26:11 are often deployed to argue for Christian inaction on poverty, but I think the more faithful reading is to see these as instances where the exception proves the rule that Christians should be hyper-vigilant about prioritizing care for the poor.