Formulary Friday: ‘This Child is Regenerate’
Formulary Friday: ‘This Child is Regenerate’
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Book Review: Dr. Almovodar's "Prayers of Comfort: Daily Petitions from the Heidelberg Catechism"
Almovodar, Nancy. Prayers of Comfort: Daily Petitions from the Heidelberg Catechism. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; First Edition edition. March 5, 2015. http://www.amazon.com/Prayers-Comfort-Petitions-Heidelberg-Catechism/dp/1508751250/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1432060037&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=nancy+almovodar+prayers+of+comfort I will proceed along five lines. (1) The dedication page, (2) A few preliminary observations. (3) Certain notable "titles." (4) Certain notable "phrases." (5) Wrap-up and recommendations. First, Nancy Almovodar dedicates this volume to Roberto, her husband, God, her mother, her FB friends at “Old Paths for Today’s Women and her Pastor, Jonathan Van Hoogen. Of note, the Pastor offers this salutary challenge: “…better in the arena” fighting imperfectly than “yelling in the bleachers” but doing nothing. A vintage and memorable challenge from the Pastor as well as Nancy herself, especially in this day of...
Shutdown Effective Immediately: 18 May to 1 Sept 2015
We will be shutdown from 18 May to 1 Sept 2015, effective immediately. We will continue the research and writing privately but will not be posting publicly. We will continue to monitor this page as well as Reformed Prayer Book Churchmanship (on FB), but will not be posting here or there. It's not health-related or any emergent situation. Simply, a desire for quietness at the "Veitch Abbey." God willing, will resume 1 Sept. We have about 25,000 pages of accumulated notes and articles for the year. That will grow, we think, by about 2000 pages by 1 Sept. But, quietness for a while. Best wishes and regards.
16 May 2015 A.D. Alternative History: If Cranmer Had Survived
16 May 2015 A.D. Alternative History: If Cranmer Had Survived MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Cranmer’s Ambiguous Legacy.” History Today. 6 Jun 1996. http://www.historytoday.com/diarmaid-macculloch/cranmers-ambiguous-legacy . Accessed 15 May 2015. Diarmaid MacCulloch reflects on the 'after-life' of Henry VIII's archbishop, burnt at the stake as a Protestant martyr under Mary. Portrait of Cranmer after Henry VIII's death by an unknown artist Archbishop Thomas Cranmer died at the stake in 1556, a martyr for the English Reformation; but did he die a martyr for the Church of England or for Anglicanism? If we examine Cranmer's career after he parted company in the early 1530s with the Catholicism of his first forty years, we find a man of international perspective, who sought to move England into the path of the wider European Reformation: in particular towards the Reformations to be found in the churches of south Germany and Switzerland. After Cranmer's de...