The author of multiple commentaries on the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, he was a founding faculty member at Trinity School for Ministry and served as its dean and president from 1978 to 1990.
from Virginia Theological Seminary, Rodgers served at an Episcopal parish in Washington, D.C., where he met his future wife, Blanche Kostka.
[2] Rodgers returned to VTS as a professor of systematic theology in 1963 and spent 13 years there, becoming "known throughout the Anglican Communion as one of its foremost Evangelical theologians," according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
[3] According to Mark Michael, "Rodgers led Trinity through a season of dramatic growth, molding it into a bastion of conservative evangelical thought, as exemplified by his most important work, The Faith of Anglicans, a massive commentary on the Thirty-Nine Articles.
Rodgers was also a firm supporter of the charismatic movement, and an outspoken advocate for orthodoxy in the Episcopal Church, especially in matters of human sexuality.
"[1] The statement summarized "a common confession of the Gospel" and outlined several "contemporary implications" on contested issues like the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, church and state relations, abortion, euthanasia, racial inclusion, same-sex marriage, divorce, and human sexuality.
"[11] This statement became the forerunner of the Jerusalem Declaration adopted at the Global Anglican Future Conference in 2008 and was also the root of the "First Promise" movement in the Episcopal Church.
The statement declared the authority of the Episcopal Church and its General Convention to be "fundamentally impaired" because they no longer upheld the "truth of the gospel".
[16] First Promise leader and South Carolina Episcopal priest Chuck Murphy and Rodgers were made bishops by Emmanuel Kolini and Moses Tay at a January 31, 2000, service in Singapore.
"[20] Rodgers was largely retired for most of the 2000s and 2010s, working on his commentaries on the Articles of Religion, although he served as interim dean and president of Trinity School for Ministry in 2007.