1.
Our Church:
Christian, Anglican and Episcopal
Adult Christian Education Committee
2023

2.
Goals of this Series
1. Learn a little bit of British (and US)
history
2. Learn a fair amount of church
history
3. Understand better where some of
our Christian / Anglican /
Episcopalian beliefs and practices
originated
4. Learn from each other
5. Have some fun

3.
Disclaimers
1. I am not a theologian.
2. I am not a historian.
3. You can probably quote a lot more
scripture than I can.
4. I’m just a guy interested in the topic
who (hopefully) did enough research
to facilitate the discussion.
5. I’m open to being corrected (nicely).

4.
About Your Facilitator
● BA Economics and Political Science,
Southern Methodist University
● MBA Finance, Cox School of Business, SMU
● First Career in Banking and Energy
Corporate Finance
● Second Career in Nonprofit Leadership
● Have lived in Dallas, Houston, Chicago and
now (blessedly) New Braunfels
● Wife (Julie) and two grown sons
● Raised largely unchurched
● Married into the Episcopal Church
● Have served on a Vestry, a School Board
and an Endowment Board
● This is my first foray into Adult Christian
Education
Bob King

5.
Our Church:
Christian, Anglican and Episcopal
Session Outline (Wednesdays at 7pm, Church Library or by Zoom)
Part One - The Christian Church
11 Jan, Session One: The Nicene Creed and our Trinitarian faith
18 Jan, Session Two: Augustine of Canterbury and the Church of England
25 Jan, Session Three: The Great Schism (Rome vs. Constantinople)
Part Two - The Anglican Church
1 Feb, Session Four: Henry VIII and Origins of the Anglican Church
8 Feb, Session Five: Thomas Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer
15 Feb, Session Six: Richard Hooker and the Via Media
22 Feb, Session Seven: The Wesleys and Methodism
Part Three - The Episcopal Church
1 Mar, Session Eight: The American Revolution and the ECUSA
8 Mar, Session Nine: Race, The Civil War and the Episcopal Church
15 Mar, Session Ten: Progressivism v.Traditionalism in the 20th & 21st Cent

6.
The Christian Church Evolution

7.
Periods of Brittanic Rule
Prehistoric
and
Iron Age
Roman
Viking
and
Anglo-
Saxon
Norman
Plantagenet
Birth
of
Christ
1000
AD
Lancaster
and
York
Tudor
1500
AD
Stuart
Windsor
2000
AD
PREDOMINANT SOURCE OF STRIFE:
TRIBAL
CLAN
CLAN
PRO
VINCIAL
PRO
VINCIAL
FAM
ILIAL
FAM
ILIAL
RELIG
IO
US
RELIG
IO
US
NATIO
NAL