Reformed Churchmen: Haydn's Te Deum in C

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

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Haydn's Te Deum in C

We wish we had the choral score at hand to read the words and music. There are times for the performance of Cathedral renditions such as this (something Anglicanism retained), to relect alone on the Triune God and to offer praise and petitions. The OT lection for 8 Sept 2010 in the Fourteenth Week after Trinity reminds us that God casts down proud kings, e.g. Tyre, for pride and self-sufficiency. The King of Tyre, Ithobaal 11, lacked the fear and reverence of the LORD, without which even the most gifted minds and hearts wreak havoc and wickedness. Aside from Ez. 28, cf. Prov.3.7; 9.10; 26.12; Is.5.21; Jer.9.23-24. Pride bequiled Satan and the first parents in Eden. Pride is not a misdemeanour but an insidious force that exalts the practitioner and thinker into something he never can be, God; pride is an anti-God orientation. Despite the dysfunctionality, amnesia, pride, chaos, disorder and sycretism in Anglicanism for we "Exiles in Babylon," we never go far afield--or far off--with disciplined Bible reading, Prayer Book Churchmanship, and Godly music. Despite the darkness (Ps.12), we still rejoice (Ps. 95, 100)--every day.