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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, October 27, 2009

Iron Ink - Horton, Frame,

Iron Ink - Horton, Frame, & Goldilocks

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Another tagline in the on-going debate between Dr. Horton and Rev. Frame. This particular take is not helpful and appears to be a read from a theonomically-oriented perspective.

Upon first view, it appears to be academic. It's not. It goes to two different visions on the churches in the United States, broadly speakly.

It should be noted that regular users of the classic book of Anglican Prayer, 1662, has law and gospel along with justification by faith alone suffused throughout. Even the Anglo-Catholic liturgical scholar, Gregory Dix, acknowledged this to be Cranmer's theme.

A regular BCP-man, by training and disciplined piety, must incline to Horton's perspective.

5 comments:

Bret L. McAtee said...

Almost every Reformed person agrees with Law and Gospel categories. The rub is how the third use of the law gets used in that paradigm. (Or if it gets used for that matter.) Indeed, some people in the R2Kt movement even seem to have problems with the politicus usus aspect of the law. As the writer of Iron Ink I am four square behind justification by fatih alone. I'm just not four square behind justification by antinonianism alone.

Reformation said...

Thanks Bret.

Paragraph one above applies to you.

Paragraph two does not, but applies to the Horton-Frame conflict, to wit, the debate is not about secondary matters, but about important matters.

Justification by antinomianism hardly can be made against Horton or Clark.

Bret L. McAtee said...

public square antinomianism is more certainly a case that can be made against Horton and Clark.

Reformation said...

You said:

"I'm just not four square behind justification by antinonianism alone" un your first post.

Horton and Clark talk about justification by antinominianism?

What is that about?

In your second post, you said:

"public square antinomianism is more certainly a case that can be made against Horton and Clark."

It's your case to make. Have you tried arguing this case at HB?

Bret L. McAtee said...

No, why would I do that? My posts would just disappear as has happened in the past. I have argued it at Iron Ink w/ Clark and Hart in the past. You can access those discussions under my "R2Kt" section at Iron Ink.