Reformed Churchmen: Discerning Reader: Review of Letters to a Young Calvinist by James K. A. Smith

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 10, 2010

Discerning Reader: Review of Letters to a Young Calvinist by James K. A. Smith

Discerning Reader: Review of Letters to a Young Calvinist by James K. A. Smith

A modest review by Tim Challies, an Anabaptist.

This Reformed "conceit" is better addressed by daily devotions from the 1662 BCP.

Tim Challies is a predestinarian Anabaptist in Toronto, presumably an ex-Arminian. Quite a modest review. Actually, the "Reformed conceit" of youth is better addressed by the daily devotional of Prayer Book piety, something unbeknownst to the Confessionally Reformed, e.g. Mike Horton, not to mention this predestinarian Anabaptist. Spare me of both. Get some Reformed doctrine, worship and piety.