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, November 22, 2013

1595 Lambeth Articles, Calvinism, C of E., & Royal Donkey (Not Balaam's Ass)

The 1595 Lambeth Articles and the so-called “Calvinist Consensus” (1)

John William Perkins


The aim of this study is to focus attention on a document called the Lambeth Articles to assess the level of consensus English Calvinism had achieved by 1595. The idea of a Calvinist consensus was highlighted by historians like Patrick Collinson. Collinson maintains that the doctrines of
Calvinism provided the Elizabethan church with a “theological cement” to unite various theologians on the issue of grace. As early as 1973, Nicholas Tyacke, using the same adhesive analogy described this union as an “ameliorating bond” which helped to give the Church of England a Calvinist “consensus.”1 This “consensus” thesis has much to commend it, not least
the support it has gained from other historians,2 although the concept of a late Elizabethan church united by a common respect for Calvinism predates Tyacke’s thesis.3 To be fair, Tyacke’s argument is not that the English church was uniformly Calvinist, but he does maintain it united most of the clergy and much of the educated laity. Indeed, in the last decade of Elizabeth’s reign, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge did become centres of Calvinist learning.4


For the rest, see:
http://britishreformedfellowship.org.uk/articles/Lambeth%20Articles%20(1).pdf

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