PHILADELPHIA: Anglicans Sweep Into The Mainline To Engage The Public Square
PHILADELPHIA: Anglicans Sweep Into The Mainline To Engage The Public Square
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
September 28, 2011
Anglicans have always been holistic thinkers. One need only think of men like John Wesley, John Stott, William Wilberforce and someone called John Jay (1745 –1829), an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95).
Jay was also an Anglican, a denomination renamed the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America after the American Revolution. In 1785 Jay was a warden of Trinity Church, New York. Following the Revolutionary War, and as Congress's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he supported the proposal that the Archbishop of Canterbury approve the ordination of bishops for the Episcopal Church in the United States.
John Jay was one of the top ten American founders, but today he is largely forgotten. Often I meet attorneys who ask: "Who was John Jay?" It's always a little embarrassing for me to mention that he was the first Chief Justice of the United States and a co-author (along with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison) of the Federalist Papers, arguably the primary original source document for Constitutional interpretation.
John Jay may well have been forgotten if it wasn't for a single thoughtful and winsome scholar in the person of Alan R. Crippen II, age 49, himself an Anglican.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
September 28, 2011
Anglicans have always been holistic thinkers. One need only think of men like John Wesley, John Stott, William Wilberforce and someone called John Jay (1745 –1829), an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95).Jay was also an Anglican, a denomination renamed the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America after the American Revolution. In 1785 Jay was a warden of Trinity Church, New York. Following the Revolutionary War, and as Congress's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he supported the proposal that the Archbishop of Canterbury approve the ordination of bishops for the Episcopal Church in the United States.
John Jay was one of the top ten American founders, but today he is largely forgotten. Often I meet attorneys who ask: "Who was John Jay?" It's always a little embarrassing for me to mention that he was the first Chief Justice of the United States and a co-author (along with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison) of the Federalist Papers, arguably the primary original source document for Constitutional interpretation.
John Jay may well have been forgotten if it wasn't for a single thoughtful and winsome scholar in the person of Alan R. Crippen II, age 49, himself an Anglican.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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