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

Friday, September 3, 2010

MacArthur on the Modern Church « Churchmouse Campanologist

MacArthur on the Modern Church « Churchmouse Campanologist

The Church Campanologist gives us insights from the Rev. Mr. John MacArthur. Mr. MacArthur offers an experienced perspective about the impoverished deity that has shaped American evangelicalism and the Protestant mainline. RA believes the term the "weightless god" needs expatiation and application. Thankfully, the classical Book of Common Prayer, 1662, and its daily use for Morning and Evening Prayer along with chanted Psalms (using those from St. Paul's Cathedral, London) and all associated Bible readings, have shielded the practitioners from this "weightless and worthless god of therapeutic irrelevance."

RA recommends this as a doctrinal, praiseworthy and pious approach that it safe. Furthermore, we recommend reading and studying the Bible to see the mistakes that religious teachers are making.

As the Rev. Dr. Cornelius Van Til always reminded us, summarily, that all heresies and apostasies began and ended with the doctrine of God.

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