Stand Firm Reformed Catholics? - What Jewel Teaches Us
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Good as far as it goes, but Calvinism was--repeat--was the theology of the Elizabethan Bishops and divines, period. It is time that that is included in the definition of "Reformed."
Read the classics and you'll see two things: (1) I am right on this and (2) your present leaders aren't Reformed Anglicans.
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It was also the theology of many of the Jacobean and Carolinian divines, at least to the extent that is compatible with this theology being a middle way between Geneva and Wittenburg (and Zurich?), and remains the theology of many Anglicans to this day.
And I know of no Anglicans of this middle way in leadership above the parish level anywhere in the US, in or out of the Episcopal Church.
Thanks Philip for your comment.
The last paragraph is troubling, to wit, re: the leadership. But then, should I be? Shouldn't I expect them to not reflect this Reformed heritage, given their training?
I think one will find some of these things (Calvinism) with Bishops Riches and Sutton of the old REC. What they hold now is not clear to me, especially Sutton since he's been everything in the last thirty years--dispensationalist, Baptist, Presbyterian, theonomist, low and now High Churchman? One wonders what's next.
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