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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 17, 2010

An Evangelical pastor calls it correctly on the Anglicans « Churchmouse Campanologist

An Evangelical pastor calls it correctly on the Anglicans « Churchmouse Campanologist

An evangelical pastors "calls out" on the Anglican Church and the ignorance of the Articles and the 1662 BCP.

The bottomline to the exhortation: "Teach one C o E Article per week from the XXXIX Articles, not, as one Anglican minister proposed to do, teach forty Sundays from Rick Warren's Forty Days of the Purpose Driven Life."

The Chinese evangelical minister was quite right.

4 comments:

Jack Miller said...: I can only heartily agree! It is pathetically sad that the vast majority of Anglicans and, I would venture, Anglican clergy are have never read the 39 Articles nor any of the homilies from the 2 books of Homilies... especially Cranmer's Sermon on the Salvation of Mankind (of Justification) which is classic biblical and reformed soteriology.

cheers,
Jack; August 17, 2010 at 8:01 PM
Reformation said...: Thanks Jack.

I suspect the underlying theology and its Augustinian coherence is little appreciated either.

Tough to be in the Babylonian Captivity, but the Gospel and the divine promises keep us marching, teaching, researching and praising His Sovereign Majesty.; August 17, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Jack Miller said...: I've been blogging on and off on Cranmer... and other points of the English reformational faith. So needed...

I like your blog very much. Thanks.

Jack; August 17, 2010 at 9:07 PM
Reformation said...: Thanks Jack. And the work goes on, even in Babylon.

Here in Jacksonville, NC, am praying about starting a Prayer Book (society) group that will join to pray and study the related Scriptures and theology. As well as introduce the Psalter-tradition of Anglican chants via St. Paul Cathedral's good renderings. Just 3-4 men. Otherwises, dry, arid and awful in this southern town in North Carolina.

Thanks for the good word.

Regards.; August 18, 2010 at 7:16 AM