Reformed Churchmen: Coming in January 2010: Caspar Olevianus-Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed

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

Monday, November 23, 2009

Coming in January 2010: Caspar Olevianus-Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed « Heidelblog

Coming in January 2010: Caspar Olevianus-Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed « Heidelblog

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Caspar Olevianus was an co-author of that beloved Heidelberg Catechism, 1563, that would have done England well had it been embraced as a consitutive and catecetical tool alongside the XXXIX Articles. It would be hard for an English Reformed scholar or church leader of the English Reformers to have rejected it. the C o E never got past the XXXIX Articles, a useful but immature expression of the Reformation. The exact opposite obtains today---C o E leaders would have a hard time embracing it, given their theological amnesia and obscurantism.