Journal of Anglican Studies· 2026Q2
An Augustinian-Anthropological Approach to Anglican Disciple Formation: Response to Lambeth and Vision36
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Short summary
This essay proposes an Augustinian-anthropological framework to integrate key elements of Anglican discipleship, addressing a gap in current programs like the Lambeth Call and Vision36.
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Key points
- Anglican discipleship programs (Lambeth Call, Vision36) identify key elements but lack an integrated developmental anthropology.
- The imago Dei, distorted by the Fall and restored in Christ, serves as the foundational architecture for this anthropology.
- The proposed framework includes three dispositions: intellect, spirituality, and communion.
- Two dynamics, maturity and unity, are identified as crucial for disciple formation.
- The framework culminates in the concept of the disciple as Anthropos.
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Abstract
Abstract From the Season of Intentional Discipleship through the 2023 Lambeth Call and Vision36, the Anglican Communion has developed a coherent program of discipleship, evangelism and church planting. Its documents identify Baptism, whole-life transformation, Scripture, prayer, worship, service, witness and the Spirit as constitutive of discipleship. These commitments reflect a substantive theology of baptismal vocation, participation in Christ’s life and mission, formation within the worshipping community and the Spirit’s transformation of persons and communities for the world. What they do not yet provide is an integrated developmental anthropology relating these elements to the formation, disorder, restoration and integration of the person. This essay argues that the imago Dei – distorted in the Fall, restored in Christ and realized through the indwelling Spirit – supplies that architecture. Extending Augustine’s analogical project in De Trinitate , it derives three dispositions (intellect, spirituality, communion), two dynamics (maturity, unity) and their culmination in the disciple as Anthropos .
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