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

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Twelve Solas of the Modern ACNA

"The Twelve Solas of the (modern ACNA) Church:

1. Sola Cultura – Culture defines biblical message and preaching. Make anti-homosexuality the basis of collaboration.

2. Sola Successa – Numerical success determines truth. We need affirmation from other Anglicans in the "numbers game." Otherwise, we have no validity.

4. Sola Entertaina – Louder is better (AMiA). Doctrine must go. No catechisms or confessions from pre-1979.

5. Sola Mio – Meet my needs.

6. Sola Emotionala– Emote, dudes and dudettes. "Romanticize" and "feel" those Goth Medievalisms for the TRACTO-fullas. Ensure that you replace doctrinal preaching with a few dozen liturgical pieties to be found no where in the historical Books of Common Prayer. "Emote" for the charismatic stream.

7. Sola Stupida –Thinking not allowed. No theologians, commentaries, confessions, liturgies, doctrinal hymns, or historical references. Pray, pay and obey (the Priest).

8. Sola Romana et Tractana - No Protestant, Reformed, Calvinistic, Confessional Anglicans. Grab the Canons and Constitution to guarantee and solidify your grip. Reformation theology is "heretical."

9. Sola Bootstrappa - Positively no Calvinism as the doctrinal core.

10. Sola Bambina - Only children for leadership. Only boys with no backbone or "principled convictions."

11. Sola Duplicita - Say one thing and behave in another way. Hold to the Thirty-nine Articles, contextually interpreted, and deny the Articles ala Newman. Make sure to cover this up or get rid of this somehow. Say you're all "one in Christ." Smiling and nice talking is required. A doctorate in palaver preferred. "Double-mindedness" is a virtue, so stress that.

12. Non solas - absolutely no five solas of the Reformation

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