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

Friday, October 4, 2013

Mr.(Rev. Dr. Prof.) Gerald Bray: "A Future for Anglicans?"/Wacky American Conservatives!

Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Bray in an article at the Church Society entitled "A Future for Anglicans?" 

Mr. Bray notes: "This time round we must hope that the organisers will have learned that some of their conservative American backers are just as wacky as the liberals in the Episcopal Church and not allow them to set the agenda. The last thing the Anglican Communion needs is a forum in which the internal battles of American Episcopalianism are played out on a world stage in front of an audience that has no idea what is going on and is not
really sympathetic to either side." 


Current conservative American backers [of GAFCON 11] are as wacky as TEC liberals? 

Oy vey. Ya' can't make this stuff up.

For the rest, see:

http://www.churchsociety.org/churchman/documents/Cman_127_3_Editorial.pdf


We add two videos. 

First, Mr. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) James Packer's laments Anglicanism's doctrinal incohesion and incompetence to that of Drunken Sailors.  He specifically cites this particular Irish jig as per the below.  The Thirty-nine Articles, Vancouver, BC: Regent College, 2007.

Second, we offer a recent "offering" that made the tours on the web.  We're finding some real messes in the Anglicanobaptacostalistictractaholic "thing" called the ACNA.  Mr. Bray says, "...Current conservative American backers [of GAFCON 11] are as wacky as TEC liberals? 
 


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