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

Saturday, September 4, 2010

The Apostasy of the Anglican Church in North America by Robin Jordan

http://anglicansablaze.blogspot.com/2010/09/apostasy-of-anglican-church-in-north.html

"At a conference of Reform UK in June 1995, J.I. Packer delivered an address in which he described Anglicanism as Biblical and Protestant in its stance, Evangelical and Reformed in its doctrine, and liturgical and traditional in its worship. At the Global Anglican Future Conference in June 2008 Anglican bishops, clergy, and laity from around the world adopted the Jerusalem Declaration. In the Jerusalem Declaration they rejoiced in the gospel of God through which they had been saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. They upheld the Thirty-Nine Articles as containing the true doctrine of the Church agreeing with God’s word and as authoritative for Anglicans today. They upheld the 1662 Book of Common Prayer as a true and authoritative standard of worship and prayer and the classical Anglican Ordinal as an authoritative standard of clerical orders. In September 2009 the GAFCON Theological Resource Group issued a commentary on the Jerusalem Declaration, in which the group stated “that we are justified by faith, as a Article XI of the Thirty-nine Articles affirm, ‘a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort.’” They further stated that acceptance of the authority of Thirty-Nine Articles is “constitutive of Anglican identity,” and that “central to our common identity as Anglican Christians is the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.”

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