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

Sunday, June 26, 2011

"An Anglican Future without Canterbury and Lambeth?" by David Virtue


An Anglican Future without Canterbury and Lambeth?
David W. Virtue ~
"There is an old fable of the scorpion and the frog. The scorpion wanted to cross the river

and asked the frog if he would carry him on his back to get across to the other side. The

frog replied that if he tried to help him, the scorpion would surely try to kill him. The

scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"

The frog agreed to carry the scorpion. Half way across the river, the scorpion began to

sting the frog. The frog protested, "You promised not to sting me. Now we shall both

die. Why did you do it?" The scorpion shrugged, "I could not help myself. It is my

nature."

This is precisely what is happening in The Episcopal Church. The scorpion of liberalism

has been riding the frog of orthodoxy for more than 40 years. The frog has vainly been

believing that its generosity in carrying the scorpion would lead him to the belief that he

has been wrong on matters of faith and morals, and would reform, repent and return

to the faith once delivered for all to the saints. Alas, it is has not happened. As the journey

of orthodoxy in The Episcopal Church nears its end, again and again the scorpion sting of

revisionism has pierced the shell of orthodox Anglicanism, leaving the orthodox faith

without hope of carrying the scorpion to any kind of repentance."


For more, see:
http://www.39articles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/anglicanfuture.pdf

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