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

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

VirtueOnline - News - Theology, Research ... - The War on Error: The Business of Confronting Heresy

VirtueOnline - News - Theology, Research ... - The War on Error: The Business of Confronting Heresy

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A very poor showing by Mr. David Virtue, sometimes called Dr. Virtue (a D.D.). While he skillfully plays to "evangelical" sentiments, e.g. Dr. Michael Horton of the White Horse Inn, Virtue never explains or exposes the Anglo-Romewardizers in the Anglican Church of North America. I have been reading Virtueonline, every one of them, since the late 1990's when David began. He provides cover for them.

Bishop FitzSimmons Allison, in the second part of the interview, is good and spot-on regarding justification by faith alone by Christ alone. Aside from being a scholarly fellow himself (D.Phil., Oxford), he is a gentleman who confronts errors with a Christian demeanour, unlike some unwashed fundamentalists.

2 comments:

DomWalk said...

Michael Horton is not an "Evangelical". In fact, he and his little group of the theological equivalent of a sorority cat fest, try very hard to distance themselves from Evangelicalism.

He's a Pharisee.

And I'm surprised that Virtue was able to speak at all, given how attached to Horton's boots his lips were.

Reformation said...

Dom:

Would love to see your thoughts developed on the "sorority cat fest" and their relationship to "evangelicalism" (whatever that is).

Also, that he is a "Pharisee"? (We all are daily Pharisees, but for the continuuing ministry of the Holy Spirit, Word and Sacrament aiding us in that war with the flesh.)

Virtue's indeed had lock-jaw with lips firmly in place on Horton's boot. I find myself resisting a fourth listening to the interview, but must bring myself to it.