Thanks for the lead on this. You may want to adjust your tags to include "The Hapless Arminian, William Laud, Canterbury's First Arminian." A disastre and I'm Anglican. Not sure the C of E ever recovered. Tractarianism and liberalism were twin blows that may have killed the English Calvinist in the C of E.
Later on I think, John Wesley actually worked along with John newton and Wilbur Wilberforce. And so, just as I serve and love Christ with my non-Calvinist brothers, there shall always be some-what of a unity, though there will also be quite a sword as well, which Jesus said He meant to bring.
"Think not that I am come to bring peace on earth: I come not to bring peace, but a sword." -Jesus our Messiah and God
"Tractarianism and liberalism were twin blows that may have killed the English Calvinist in the C of E."
If English Calvinists have gone the way of the dinosaur (maybe with John Stott passing away, although J.I. Packer still around but in his 80s), I believe there are growing Reformed Anglican churches outside England which are still Calvinist. I've heard promising news from parts of South America, parts of Africa like Kenya and Nigeria, parts of India, parts of Australia. But I have no idea what percentage these churches represent within Anglicanism as a whole.
However, if a movement or event like GAFCON is anything to judge by, then, for better or for worse, these Reformed Anglicans would seem to be quite influential. If they only represent a small percentage within global Anglicanism, then their influence would seem disproportionate to their numbers.
At the very least there seems to be a glimmer of hope for Reformed Anglicans in other parts of the world if not in England.
I've been reading this blog for quite some time and intending to comment on it; I may still do so, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
I don't think they'd call themselves Calvinists, but I do think their effort to help build up what is left of Anglicanism after liberalism, is a very good thing to watch.
"This is a study of the rise of English Arminianism and the growing religious division in the Church of England during the decades before the Civil War of the 1640s. The widely accepted view has been that the rise of Puritanism was a major cause of the war; this book argues that it was Arminianism"
I suspect that Arminians will claim that this book is engaging in revisionism.
Thanks for the lead on this. You may want to adjust your tags to include "The Hapless Arminian, William Laud, Canterbury's First Arminian." A disastre and I'm Anglican. Not sure the C of E ever recovered. Tractarianism and liberalism were twin blows that may have killed the English Calvinist in the C of E.
ReplyDeleteLater on I think, John Wesley actually worked along with John newton and Wilbur Wilberforce. And so, just as I serve and love Christ with my non-Calvinist brothers, there shall always be some-what of a unity, though there will also be quite a sword as well, which Jesus said He meant to bring.
ReplyDelete"Think not that I am come to bring peace on earth: I come not to bring peace, but a sword." -Jesus our Messiah and God
Reformation said:
ReplyDelete"Tractarianism and liberalism were twin blows that may have killed the English Calvinist in the C of E."
If English Calvinists have gone the way of the dinosaur (maybe with John Stott passing away, although J.I. Packer still around but in his 80s), I believe there are growing Reformed Anglican churches outside England which are still Calvinist. I've heard promising news from parts of South America, parts of Africa like Kenya and Nigeria, parts of India, parts of Australia. But I have no idea what percentage these churches represent within Anglicanism as a whole.
However, if a movement or event like GAFCON is anything to judge by, then, for better or for worse, these Reformed Anglicans would seem to be quite influential. If they only represent a small percentage within global Anglicanism, then their influence would seem disproportionate to their numbers.
At the very least there seems to be a glimmer of hope for Reformed Anglicans in other parts of the world if not in England.
Reformation, you may want to check out these folks:
ReplyDeletehttp://anglicancontinuum.blogspot.com/2011/11/our-priorities.html
I've been reading this blog for quite some time and intending to comment on it; I may still do so, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
I don't think they'd call themselves Calvinists, but I do think their effort to help build up what is left of Anglicanism after liberalism, is a very good thing to watch.
"This is a study of the rise of English Arminianism and the growing religious division in the Church of England during the decades before the Civil War of the 1640s. The widely accepted view has been that the rise of Puritanism was a major cause of the war; this book argues that it was Arminianism"
ReplyDeleteI suspect that Arminians will claim that this book is engaging in revisionism.