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

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Magnificat in C - Stanford

In the face of "emergent theologians, "moral and therapeutic Deists" (Rick Warren, Charles Stanley, Joel Osteen and other Anabaptist revivalists, enthusiasts and CCM-hypsters), Pelagian and heretical mainline liberals (e.g. the TEC, my heritage), and other chaoticities...we still read His Majesty's Sovereign, Almighty, Omnipotent, Perspicuous, Defining, Governing (Article VI of the 39 Articles, Ch.1 of the WCF) and Saving Word, by day and night.

HM's Word is the light and lamp to our feet in these difficult times in the Anglican Babylonian Captivity. Psalm 119: 105.

True to our heritage, we sing the Magnificat, Luke 1.46ff., in response to our Redeemer's Word this evening.

We are thankful to Sir Charles Villiers Sanford for his rendering of Luke 1.46ff, a responsorial to the hearing of God's Word.

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