Reformation Churchmanship: Roundup of J.S. Bach's St. John's Passion

For those seeking, as we must, as hungry people in a dry and weary land, furthered literacy in the Reformation classics, here is Bach's St. John's Passion. Of course, this means a good Reformed, Lutheran and Anglican bibliography.  It means intellectual and cultural resistance to the Anabaptifications of our surroundings. Most "evangelicals" are Anabaptists of sorts, e.g. Piper, Mohler, Ligonier Ministries (Baptyerians), Mahaney (Baptacostal), Christianity Today, Dever (Baptyerian) and others.  The mainline is now theologically irrelevant.  New lines must be cut.  We surely recommend Dr. Scott Clark's Recovering the Reformed Confessions although he's weak on the BCP.  Yet, RA is pulling in Scott's direction.  Maturity means memory and catechetical work for children also:  the Westminster Shorter Catechism and Heidelberg Catechism.  Also, a good Anglican Prayer Book.  And, the musical heritage, such as Johannes Sebastian Bach.  This work, St. John's Passion, is appropriate for review as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter are here.  Of course, it takes work to be informed, reformed and increasingly renewed (Rom.12.1-2, 4th commandment re: Sabbath and six days of hard work).  Planting seeds.  Watching the harvest.  Tending to the harvest, including chasing off the "buzzards" of modernity.  And, inheriting the fruit.  Churchmanship takes work.  It's not the American way of "McDonald's Churchmanship" with fries and burgers, but it--work, learning, thinking, and praying--is the way of the Fathers and Mothers of faith in the ages.

Bach St John Passion Johannespassion John Eliot Gardiner

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