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 4, 2013

Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Carl Trueman's Podcast: "The Book of Common Prayer," King's College, Cambridge

Odd indeed, but refreshing too.  Just odd from a Presbyterian.

Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Carl Trueman, Confessional Presbyterian and Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary--Philadelphia, offers sound and sage insights on our old Book of Common Prayer. It's one of the finest set of comments we've heard in some time.  Humourously (in one limited sense), Mr. Trueman chides the sermons (tsk! tsk!) at King's College, Cambridge, noting that the liturgy itself--without some cleric boring a hole in the Church of England with a sermon (tsk! tsk!)--offers more Bible than any other alleged evangelical affair. 

Mr. Trueman and others up there in Philadelphia, why of course!

http://info.alliancenet.org/mos/podcast/calming-liturgical-heartburn

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