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, March 8, 2013

SGM-Mahaneygate CLOSEOUT: Post-Mahaney Resignation from SGM


We hereby close-out every and all further inquiries or studies on Charles John "Old Baldy" Mahaney.  We've followed him, his bucolic and ignorant followers, his angry interlocutors (including the SGM Survivors and Refuge blogs including some, e.g. the abused, with legitimate complaints), and other Baptacostalistic-hand-waving enthusiasts.  We did our duty.  SGM is full of ignoramuses in the American tradition of anti-intellectualism, anti-Confessionalism and, of course, an anti-BCP tradition (shssh, Mahaney has no idea about a "BCP).

To pursue the issue further assumes that "old Baldy," SGM, T4G or the ACE "matters."  None of them matter, not a single one of them. 

1.  For the children, Mahaney is an veritable idiot, not worth a further ounce of consideration.  Not only does he appear to have a lower-ended IQ, so do his followers.  They're not that sharp.  Steer clear of SGM.

2.  For the Grandchildren, read Berkhof and Hodge, not the enthusiasts of SGM, etc.  It's bad in the USA, but SGM ain't a solution, nor is T4G.

3. Avoid T4G and Gospel-Hallies-Allies.  Read Berk and Hodge. 

 

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