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

PCUSA 2008 stats — portrait of a mainline denomination « Churchmouse Campanologist

"Yesterday’s post featured John MacArthur’s views on the modern church. Whilst he was discussing today’s Evangelical churches, many of us would nod our heads in agreement at his assessment and clarion call for biblical truths and clear teaching.

Today, let’s look at the 2008 statistics for the Presbyterian Church (USA), or PCUSA. This is the mainstream — and very much politically-oriented, man-centred – Presbyterian Church in the United States and many onlookers equate it with American Presbyterianism in general. However, a number of smaller but more orthodox Presbyterian denominations exist, e.g. PCA and OPC."

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PCUSA 2008 stats — portrait of a mainline denomination « Churchmouse Campanologist

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