Oxford History of Anglicanism, Vol.1: Reformation, (#19): Ethan Shagan: ...
The Forty-Two Articles and the 1549 Act of Uniformity with its Book of Common Prayer are discussed.
Impudently, wrongly and unnecessarily, Prof. Shagan speaks of "strident" Reformed confessions by 1563--confessions/catechisms of the French (1559), the Scots (1559), the First Helvetica (1536), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Augsburg Confession (1530), and others. To use the term "strident" for these confessions is unwarranted and insulting. Such a term tells one more about Prof. Shagan than the confessions of the period. Prof. Shagan was censored of this point. If a student in Prof. Shagan's class at UCLA, a serious push-back would be offered, argued and concluded. Further, he fails to mention the "stridency" of the Council of Trent that "anathematized" true catholics and excommunicated the Reformers.
One further note: the English Bible and English Book of Common Prayer were a national agenda item--as a nationwide vision that was a stark contrast to the historic Latin services. While noted, it's easy to forget how radical this was. To his credit. Prof. Shagan rightly, accurately and helpfully calls this project "evangelical." To be a Reformed Prayer Book Churchman is to be, in the best sense of it, an "evangelical," not in the American or English sense of it, but in the Biblical sense of it. An excellent point and "word choice" by Prof. Shagan.
Impudently, wrongly and unnecessarily, Prof. Shagan speaks of "strident" Reformed confessions by 1563--confessions/catechisms of the French (1559), the Scots (1559), the First Helvetica (1536), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Augsburg Confession (1530), and others. To use the term "strident" for these confessions is unwarranted and insulting. Such a term tells one more about Prof. Shagan than the confessions of the period. Prof. Shagan was censored of this point. If a student in Prof. Shagan's class at UCLA, a serious push-back would be offered, argued and concluded. Further, he fails to mention the "stridency" of the Council of Trent that "anathematized" true catholics and excommunicated the Reformers.
One further note: the English Bible and English Book of Common Prayer were a national agenda item--as a nationwide vision that was a stark contrast to the historic Latin services. While noted, it's easy to forget how radical this was. To his credit. Prof. Shagan rightly, accurately and helpfully calls this project "evangelical." To be a Reformed Prayer Book Churchman is to be, in the best sense of it, an "evangelical," not in the American or English sense of it, but in the Biblical sense of it. An excellent point and "word choice" by Prof. Shagan.
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