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, July 21, 2009

Office Hours with the Rev. Dr. James I. Packer

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Office Hours with the Rev. Dr. James I. Packer. It is difficult for this scribbler to get past James' signing of the document, Evangelical-Catholic Together. His subsequent self-defenses of that are aggravating factors to the original signature. Further, we have no documentary evidence that he has ever written or evidently opposed Anglo-Romewardizing in the Church of England.

The interviewer in this video clip would, frankly, do much better by accessing the books we are recommending here. Of note, Packer says nothing of Calvin, Luther or the English Reformers in this.

Others may be more charitably disposed. That's good. But the motto here is: honesty, frankness, directness combined with courtesy, love and humility.

In that vein, Packer has seriously erred.

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