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, October 14, 2009

The Next Virtue Article on the Reformed Episcopal Church

We still waiting for Virtue to publish his promised piece on The Reformed Episcopal Church.

We're waiting with baited breath.

We are making a prediction here. We'll get another puff-piece on a once Calvinist Church, the REC, and their smooth interface with the Anglo-Catholic outfit (Anglican Province of America), CANA, Nigeria and ACNA.

All ruffled feathers from the past...bygones. All is well in David's world, unless, of course, you read for a living.

What Virtue won't tell you is the anti-Tractarian origins...at least until the neo-Tractarian REC leaders took over under Riches in the 90's. For evidence, consult their re-worked Tract XC at the REC website, entitled "Unity in the Cross." It's a study in ambiguity, but comes as a disimiluated piece sliding the old Tract 90 back into the mix.

It's a shame. This stuff gets foisted onto Churchmen in the pew and is done behind closed doors by hegemonists.

David, c'mon, let's get on with the next puff-piece.

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