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

Saturday, May 24, 2014

21 May 1382 AD: The "Earthquake Synod"--William Courtenay, an Arch-Ass of Canterbury, & John Wycliffe


21 May 1382 A.D.  The Earthquake Synod—William Courtenay, the 58th Archbishop of Canterbury & Ass of Canterbury, Thunders Against John Wycliffe & His Heresies

Wiki’s offering based on ODCC .

The Earthquake Synod was an English synod that took place on May 21, 1382, in the Blackfriars area of London, England.

William Courtenay, the Archbishop of Canterbury, convened the synod to address the emerging Lollard thinkers challenging the church. In particular, the synod condemned John Wycliffe's twenty-four theses, although many had already been condemned as heresy by a synod at St. Paul's Cathedral in February 1377. The synod also issued teachings on the doctrine of transubstantiation and friars. The synod got its name from the fact that an earthquake shook the city of London during its meetings.[1]

References


1.       Jump up ^ *"Earthquake Synod." In Cross, F. L. and E. A. Livingstone, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. London: Oxford UP, 1974. p. 437.

We would add the following to Wiki about Courtenay, an Ass of Canterbury.

The picture above is Courtenay’s effigy in Canterbury.

Courtenay, the pestiferous 58th Archbishop of Canterbury, the Ass in Canterbury, croaked like the other 57, mere mortals like the rest of us. They buried this dumb ass in Canterbury. Don't like the language, take it up with Jeremiah the Leader, not some set of phoney and parochial standards of country clubbish gentility. Here's the monument to the 58th Canterbury.  Courtenay the Ass of Canterbury croaked years later on 31 Jul 1396.

Edifying remarks from a Jewish prophet about King Jehoiakim, son of Josiah. Jeremiah gets down to business without the rude protocols of country clubbish & Republican gentility. Jeremiah is a breath of fresh air. There more like it too from old Jeremiah.


Jeremiah 22:18-19
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)

18 Therefore thus saith the Lord against Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, They shall not [a]lament him, saying, Ah, my brother, or ah sister: neither shall they mourn for him, saying, Ah, lord, or ah, his glory.

19 He shall be buried, as an ass [b]is buried, even drawn and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

Footnotes:
a. Jeremiah 22:18 For everyone shall have enough to lament for himself.
b. Jeremiah 22:19 Not honorably among his fathers, but as carrions are cast in a hole, because their stink should not infect, read 2 Kings 24:9. Josephus Antiquities 10:8, writeth that the enemy slew him in the city and commanded him to be cast before the walls unburied, see Jer. 36:30.

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