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

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

YouTube - Let's Talk Post-Modernism and the Emergent Church...

YouTube - Let's Talk Post-Modernism and the Emergent Church...

Interesting. Sproul, Mohler, and Ravi Zacharias.

1. Language deconstruction resulting in anti-intellectual, irrational, mysticized theology. A friend, Rev. Castellano, an Anglican, is doing doctoral work on philosophical deconstructionism and relativism--at a more sophisticated level than this scribec.

2. Religion as a "mood." Rejection of cognitive and propositional revelation.

3. Emergent brand. Brian McClaren--relativistic religion. Rejection of the law of contradiction.

4. Today's liberals are yesterday's evangelicals. Liberalism was originally rooted in "pietism."

5. "Orthodox" or classical, confessional Christians. Erasmus's claim against Luther for propositional truths on predestination.

6. "Boredom of God." Non-critical people like sheep follow the Emergents and Emerging leaders.

7. Fear and dislike of debate. "Divisive" is the claim. "Relativize" doctrine. These men say, "You can't kill doctrine and truth in the streets over the quest for `peace.'"

Recommending Dr. Scott Clark's "Recovering the Reformed Confession." While not an Anglican, it has substantial import to classical, Reformational Anglicans---not the M3-types, 'Murrikan Mutant Manglicans. But brave, thoughtful, courageous, thinking Reformed Anglicans.

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