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

Friday, August 10, 2012

Charlie Ray: From Hillbillyism to Reformed Theology

A former Hillbilly (an American Southerner with few to no theological roots or depth of note, depth or significance) explains his maturation through Pentecostalism, including a Wesleyan seminary, and American loondom into maturity and Reformed thought.   On occasion, Charlie still evinces that backwoods ethos in terms of argumentativeness, lack of class, impatience and hasty imputations, borne of his long (and justifiable) contempt and disgust with/for the Arminian exhorters.  But, he is maturing.  This is a good word.  It's a good word for American Hillbillies. Charlie's perseverence offered theological dividends. He researched, he hung in there with HM's Word, he read, he debated and he emerged.  H/T to such perseverence. God showed him mercy, grace and perseverence.

http://reasonablechristian.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-short-testimony-why-i-became-calvinist.html

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