This is an overview of the Adult Christian Education series that will start on Wednesday January 11, 2022 and will continue each Wednesday evening at 7pm Central time for ten weeks. The goal of the series is to provide the historical context of the evolution of the Episcopal faith. This series is created by a parishioner of St. John's Episcopal Church, and is not a product of any clergy or other employee of the church, of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas or the Episcopal Church of the USA.

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