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, August 24, 2010

The Almost-Luther Day | Here I Walk


The journey of Luther, as followed by a couple of journalists.

The Almost-Luther Day Here I Walk

The Almost-Luther Day

We have dubbed today the Almost-Luther Day, because at 39km we fell a tri­fle short of the 42km aver­age he is sup­posed to have walked on his south­ward jour­ney. (Much of the day was spent along the Rennsteig, a very old road from Ilme­nau south­wards. Many times we walked through the rut–sometimes more than 8ft deep–carved by hun­dreds of years of horses, mules, oxes and carts. All in all a very his­tor­i­cal day.)

All the same it took us 13.5 hours and we’re in our Zim­merver­mi­etung in a state nearly beside our­selves with exhaus­tion. We also got a taste of Luther’s win­ter cold, despite it being August. And we also real­ized that walk­ing in Novem­ber and Decem­ber, Luther must have spent quite a lot of time walk­ing in the dark. More on this and our other day’s adven­tures tomor­row when we are more coherent

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