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, March 14, 2012

The English Reformers

A brief exchange and suggested inquiries by myself and a friend on FB about the English Reformers.
My friend's name was editted to XXXXX.

XXXXX.  a good, brief, succinct, well-documented and multi-purposed summary is in order beyond Ryle's English Reformers. That is, 10-page summaries of each Reformer, again, with footnotes that are readable, accurate, scholarly, informative, and motivational even--from Cranmer to Hall, across 80 years.  Ryle does a fine job of summarizing 5-6 English Reformers. I'd suggest 10-12, may 15 English Reformers. Something that poor children and high schoolers could digest. Something PhDs would handily use for collegians. Something PhDs would recognize as a definitive summary with suggestive directions for research. Something Mums and Dads--rich and poor--could access, ponder and draw encouragement. The LORD knows well enough our exile.
Monday at 5:40pm ·
  • Donald Philip Veitch I'd add Joseph Hall in the list noted above.
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  • XXXXXX List of 10: , but he should be included.  Bishop Guest, John Whitgift, Matthew Parker, Bishop Edward Reynolds, Thomas Becon, Nowell, Archbishop Bancroft, John Davenant, Meltebeke, Sheppard, Joseph Hall.
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