The test of true Anglicanism, that is Reformed Catholicism, is a Confessional matter: Adherence to Holy Scripture, testimony in accord with Scripture [the Word of God], faithful witness to Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer, the salvaging of the human soul through divine grace alone, by faith alone [Augustinianism, as resurgent and clarified in the Protestant Reformation], accurate and earnest proclamation to every sinner within sound of the precious message of the mercy of God, and profound r
Read moreArchbishop Cranmer is the lesser-known of the sixteenth century reformers but, as recent scholarship has shown, he was a first-class thinker alongside the best minds of the Protestant Reformation. Comparatively, he shied from the limelight and he never relished the hand-to-hand combat with the popes and potentates that seems to fuel some of the other reformers.
Read moreBy the end of the 1948 war, the dispossessed Palestinians numbered over 750,000. Most people in the West were not aware of this side of the tragedy. The Palestinian Arabs were largely invisible to the eyes of the West. They were overshadowed by the victims of the Holocaust, whose plight received greater significance and publicity.[2]
Read moreFeminist scholars discovered feminist Jesus. Many Black pastors see Jesus like Moses, freeing the slaves. Social justice advocates, like Shane Claiborne, create Social Reformer Jesus,[3] campaigning against the death penalty. There is LGBTQ-friendly Jesus. More recently, we've seen American Revolutionary Jesus, who carries a gun on his sash and is more concerned about losing his rights than winning the lost.
Read moreHowever, Anglicanism rests on theological assertions that are decidedly Protestant and based on an authentic catholicity.
There is no via media between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
Diarmaid MacCulloch writes:
Read moreWith regard to the first, McIlvaine rejoiced that a "great increase of attention to the salvation of the soul" had appeared in the parish, that many members had taken an interest in prayer, and that some professed "to have been recently led to Christ, and to have obtained peace through the blood of His Cross."
Read more"Christian holiness finds its ground not in human mortality," says Liam Beadle, "but in the sure and certain hope of the new creation."
Read moreFulfilling the Law
Not according to Matthew's gospel. In Matthew 5:17, Jesus forbids us from thinking that he came to "abolish the law or the prophets."[2] The phrase "law and prophets" was Jewish shorthand for what Jews call Tanach, the whole Old Testament. "Law" was a reference to Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, and "the prophets" was a placeholder for all the rest of the Hebrew Bible.
Read moreFirst, does your message expose (exposit) the Scripture? Does it get the congregation to the heart of the passage read, or is it used like a springboard to make personal pronouncements hoping it will lead to better behavior? Let the Scriptures speak for heaven's sake; it is God's word and so much more interesting than anything you have to say!
Read moreIt communicates that he who has magical hands and words, and not God, is the consecrator of the bread and wine in Holy Communion. I love this liturgical message that dates back to the 1552 Book of Common Prayer, but I've sometimes thought that those who insist on calling an altar a "table," and who preside at Holy Communion on the north side of the table are fussy, legalistic liturgical Protestants.
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