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, April 13, 2014

BBC: Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England: William Tyndale (60 Mins)

I rather agree with the thesis of the author, to wit, that Tyndale was far more influential than Mr. Cranmer. I want to weight this, but Tyndale and Coverdale were, in my estimation, better, more faithful and more consistent Churchmen. Of course, the historians govern the narrative as talkers. "Governing the narrative" results in the underlings parroting the Governors. But, one must press beyond the talkers to the reality. Challenging the historians. Tyndale's Bible still lives with us daily and even more fully than the BCP.


Anyways, here's a BBC review of that godly sufferer for HM's Word A Psalm 119 man. An Ezra in a day of darkness. But, what do narcissistic and self-absorbed Westerners know of this committed Churchman?



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