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

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Saturday, December 13, 2014

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL: How to fly a drone round an ancient Cathedral (whilst carefully avoiding priceless stone and glass!)

How to fly a drone round an ancient Cathedral (whilst carefully avoiding priceless stone and glass!)

Behind the scenes footage of how the new BBC 2 series "Canterbury Cathedral" used the latest aerial photography technology to present the cathedral as it has never been seen before (whilst carefully avoiding priceless stone and glass!).

Release date: 04 Dec 2014

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Reconstruction of Canterbury: Canterbury Archaeological Trust

Roman Canterbury c. AD 300: a reconstruction based on archaeological evidence. Drawn by John Atherton Bowen © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd

Roman Ridingate c. AD 300: a reconstruction based on archaeological evidence. Drawn by John Atherton Bowen © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd

Anglo-Saxon Canterbury c. AD 600: a reconstruction based on archaeological evidence. Drawn by John Atherton Bowen © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd

St Thomas Becket’s Canterbury: a reconstruction based on the evidence of archaeological remains, medieval documents and standing buildings. Drawn by John Atherton Bowen ©

Tudor Canterbury: a reconstruction based on archaeological and documentary evidence and standing remains. Drawn by John Atherton Bowen © Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Puritans in Canterbury Cathedral

From the Canterbury Cathedral guide book:

"Many of the Cathedral treasures disappeared at that time [1540, dissolution of the monasteries]. More destruction followed. During the Commonwealth period, Parliamentary soldiers rode into the Cathedral and wantonly broke the organ, the font, and many monuments. They burnt the Prayer Books and smashed the windows. For quite some years afterwards the Cathedral became a desolate place."

When it says "rode into the Cathedral," they mean on horses. They even used the nave as a horse stable. Cromwell did the same nonsense in the ancestral home of Exeter, that is, at St. Peter's Anglican Cathedral, Exeter, UK. Disrupted the Holy Communion services and commanding, "Away with all this tom-foolery!"

See: http://canterbury-cathedral.org/assets/files/docs/pdf/schools/A_QuickGuide_to_Canterbury_Cathedral.pdf

Charming chaps, weren't they? Burning Prayer Books? Good Queen Bess's 1559 Books of Common Prayer with the Thirty-nine Articles? Behold the Puritans then; behold them now, especially in a nation of exhorters, evangelicals and revivalists. These enthusiasts have simply tossed rather than burned the Prayer Books...tossing the doctrines, worship and quiet piety of Anglican Prayer Book Churchmanship. There are many assumptions that belay these views.