Reformed Churchmen: Anglicans Ablaze: The Perspicuity of Holy Scripture

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, December 3, 2010

Anglicans Ablaze: The Perspicuity of Holy Scripture

Thursday, December 02, 2010The Perspicuity of Holy Scripture

William Whitaker (1548-1595) was a prominent Anglican theologian in the reign of Elizabeth I. He championed the teaching of the reformed Church of England against its Roman Catholic detractors particularly Robert Cardinal Bellarmine and Thomas Stapleton.

Whitaker, a nephew of Alexander Nowell, was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge in 1580 and Master of St. John’s College in 1586. He wrote a number of theological treatises. The following passages are taken from A disputation on Holy Scripture, against the papists, especially Bellarmine and Stapleton.

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Anglicans Ablaze: The Perspicuity of Holy Scripture