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

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen: Why I am an Evangelical Christian?


http://www.theologian.org.uk/church/WhyIamanEvangelical.mp3

Hope exists for a Protestant, Reformed, and Evangelical Anglican with men like this around.

Reformed Theology will not grant access to Pentecostalism and Charismaticism--and for good reasons. Of course, Anglo-Catholicism has been given place within Anglicanism in the late 19th-early 20th century due to the weakness of the episcopal bench. But historically, Anglo-Catholicism was not--and still is not--classical Anglicanism. I would invite--with all good cheer and integrity--Anglo-Catholics to join Rome or Orthodxy. Be what you are. With Dr. Peter Jensen, we get Protestant, Reformed, and Evangelical Anglicanism--consonant, coherent, and consistent with the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-nine Articles.


A tad weak re: Arminians. On the other hand, good balance, to wit, for some Reformed who think TULIP is the centre of the Gospel. TULIP is quite biblical and we hold it here, but there are "some cagey Calvinists" who are imbalanced. A good Prayer Book restores and retains balance.

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