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, October 5, 2013

"Trojan Horse" Warning to Confessional Churchmen: Stay Away from Reformed Episcopal Seminary

Here's how the (Un-) Reformed Episcopal Seminary now sells itself. Advisorial for all Confessional Reformation Churchmen, Lutheran or Reformed, this is a "Trojan Horse." Try teaching Tractarianism, charismania, and other syncretisms at Concordia Seminary (LCMS) or at Westminster Seminaries, or the varied Reformed seminaries. 

The putative claim to "over-all respect" obtains until you object to their Misters and one understands this as a "marketing tool" for an ever-shrunken school. They'll pull the "charity card" if you object, presuming themselves to be charitable, while, in fact, being quite uncharitable.

Try "invoking Mary" or saints during Chapel exercises at any one of the Reformation-based schools in the nation!  

Try "Babbeling" in a Neo-Montanist state during any of the classes or Chapel services in Confessional Lutheran or Presbyterian schools.

This is the new-three-streams: Tractarianism, Bablyonics, and syncretizing-indifferentism now advocated by "this thing" they call the Anglican Church in North America.

Go ahead, leaders of the (Un-) Reformed Episcopal Seminary. By the way, how's the alumni association these days? 

Here's a word from a FB post.

"Yet another testimony for Reformed Episcopal Seminary -- given by one of our second year students. Robert Garrett on the Reformed Episcopal Seminary group page:

"Coming from a Charismatic background, I continue to be blessed and strengthened by the balance and care that is shown by the RES, REC and the ACNA towards convergent (three-streams) worship expressions and the over-all respect given to other branches of Christ's church. Amidst the challenges and changes within Anglicanism in the Americas and globally over the past decades, as a new-comer, I can see a bright future for those of us who have come to love Anglicanism, but come from a blended worship background. Taking a quote from Bishop Duncan... Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life more abundantly.""

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