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, January 5, 2011

Islamic Watch: Iranian Governor Compares Arrested Missionaries to Taliban

Iranian Governor Compares Arrested Missionaries to Taliban | Liveblog | Christianity Today

Trevor Persaud

The governor of Iran's Tehran province has announced the arrests of a number of Christian missionaries through the nation's state news agency on Tuesday.

It is not entirely clear at this point how many were arrested, where they were from--whether Iranian nationals or from another country--or what organization they represented.

The governor, Morteza Tamaddon, says that they were the leaders of a movement, and promised to move against more members of this "movement," which he calls "deviated" and "corrupt," in the near future.

"Just like the Taliban... who have inserted themselves into Islam like a parasite, they have crafted a movement with Britain's backing in the name of Christianity," Tamaddon said, as quoted in the Agence France-Presse story linked above. He also categorized them as a "conspiracy" and identified them as one of many "fake, deviated and corrupt cults" which "have sharpened their teeth for our beliefs."

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