Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Bias at www.virtueonline.org

The Rev. Paul Taylor, LLM, is one of the moderators in the comments-section of David Virtue's http://www.virtueonline.org/.

Numerous complaints to David Virtue have been urged against Mr. Taylor for his anti-Reformed and anti-Calvinistic excisions and removals of various posters. They are never explained; it just happens. It has been noted by many.

Here is one of the more recent shut-downs of communication by Mr. Paul Taylor.

See the comments at the end:

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=10657

Protestant (Catholic), Reformed, Confessional and Evangelical Anglicans were/are routined deleted. A handful of Anglo-Catholic posters get free ride without rebuttals. One almost wonders if his dozen or so Anglo-Romewardizers are on payroll. It is a clique and cadre of repressors.

Here's who Mr. Taylor really is. See:

http://www.1928bcp.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=795

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Below is an email sent to about 800 people, including David Virtue.

From: D. Philip Veitch
To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:15 PM
Subject: Rev. Paul Taylor, LLM, Virtue's Heavy-handed Censor and Moderator

http://www.1928bcp.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=795

An open repudiation of Calvinistic Anglicanism by one of David Virtue's moderators, the Rev. Paul Taylor, LLM. At least he's an honest Churchman in this respect and garners my support.

Although we've asked before, his scholarship and education is in question...and has never, despite repeated requests, been answered. We've complained to no avail.

However, Paul's very unfair handling of Protestant (Catholic), Reformed, Confessional, and Evangelical Anglicans who post at www.virtueonline.org has been that---unfair and biased. Many of you have already experienced it.

The other moderator, Robert Turner, turned sarcastic last week, as well, and we kept you appraised.

The new ACNA can only exist by failures to to do theology, exegesis, and history.

The VOL blogs are run by well, you get the point. AC-hacks write routinely on the blogs--about a dozen of them. One wonders if they are on the payroll. Turner and Taylor give them free passes.

As usual, I always copy David when I openly address VOL issues. Hey, I've read David since 1996, consider him a friend--with whom I have serious disagreements, yet, as a courtesy keep him informed.

Thank God for the web presence of the Church Society. www.churchsociety.org. You won't be getting news and theology from the modern centres of Anglican disadvertisement and utopian revisionism.

It is time for a Reformation of this ACNA Reformation, based on the truth.

Phil

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Taylor is sloppy, illogical, and most importantly, hateful of the truth of sovereign grace. Beware of him. He even misspelled Anglican at the bottom of one post at his 1928bcp.com.

These below are just pathetic examples of ptay12's thinking, typing, and piety. The only thing Calvinistic about ACNA are the "archaic" Articles in the backs of their BCPs. 2-3 ACNA guys (no bishops or priests) MIGHT believe in them, but they impact no one in ACNA.

Yours for truth,
Hugh

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Why I support the new ACNA - Rev'd Paul Taylor LL.M.

To be blunt the new ACNA is TEc lite.
I support the new ACNA because it is the enemy of my enemy. The expression the enemy of my enemy is my friend comes from th middle east where alliances shift with the wind and friendships are not stable or long lasting.

In the beginning a church was the gathering of the faithful. The new ACNA has no common theology. No common command structure. No common faith. If gene robinson had been discrete it never would have existed.

I support the new ACNA as a political entity. I support it's efforts to weaken TEc. It is a gathering but not of the faithful. Faith is a salvation issue


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The New ACNA and Anglo Catholics Rev. Paul Taylor, LL.M

The old ACNA was Anglo Catholic, but said it welcomed all. In short order non Anglo Catholics were forced out.

The new ACNA to the extent it has any theology at all is Calvinist. Being “catholic” and being “calvinist” are mutually exclusive. Just take a look what the five sola crowd says about Anglo Catholics. I agree that Calvinists and Anglo Catholics cannot exist in one church.

The new ACNA is welcoming Anglo Catholics so they can do them in later. What goes around comes around.

Reformation said...

It is amazing to me that David Virtue continues to employ Mr. Turner. There have been several, well-reasoned, temperate, moderate, thoughtful and scholarly posts---to wit, by Protestant, Reformed, Calvinist, Confessional and Evangelical Anglican Churchmen. When Paul gets a whiff of it, he deletes them. He has compromised any sense of objectivity for Mr. Virtue. Moderate and temperate disagreements should be allowed, but Mr. Taylor's are point-of-view-ridden and driven...with bias and a lack of charity.