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

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Scott Clark: "The Reformed Confession Grows in Italy"

http://heidelblog.net/2014/03/reformed-confession-grows-milan/


Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Scott Clark reports the following.


"Renewed interest in the Reformed confession is not a uniquely American phenomenon. There are, of course, large confessional Reformed/Presbyterian bodies in South Korea, Nigeria, The (Democratic Republic of the) Congo, and elsewhere. We where we might not expect to find a Reformed presence in Italy, since it is overwhelmingly Romanist. Nevertheless, from the early 1540s there was a Reformed presence in Italy and there were Italian ex patriots who fled to Geneva, among them the Turretini family. You might be familiar with Francis Turretin (1623–87) and his Institutes of Elenctic Theology (3 vols) or Jerome (Girolamo) Zanchi (1516–90) and perhaps Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562). These are among the more famous Italian Reformed theologians, each of whom had a significant influence on the shape of Reformed theology."


For the rest, see:
http://heidelblog.net/2014/03/reformed-confession-grows-milan/

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