Evening Prayer, Part 2

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (0-100) Prof. Schaff gives a colorful and panoramic look at Nazareth, being populated by about 3000-4000 in Schaff’s day. Maybe less in our time, but memory here is elusive regarding that visit. For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff continues the exposition of the demographics of Mecca and Medina in the Arabian deserts. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff tells of Farel and Calvin in Geneva in 1536 and their Confession of Faith and discipline. The Genevans drive both Farel and Calvin out. Calvin goes to Strasbourg where he’ll encounter Bucer. Farel will accept a call to Neuchatel where he’s be Pastor for the next 27 years. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof MacCulloch gives the wonderful picture of the slab-tombstone marker for Thomas Cranmer, Sr., now in Whatton Church, about a quarter mile from Aslockton where he (and presumably Mrs. Cranmer) are buried. Thomas Cranmer, Sr., died 27 May 1501 when Thomas Junior was 14 years old. EDT on Process Theology: this has never been a significant or major force in the church pew, but is widely influential, directly and indirectly, seminaries and graduates schools in the US, a variant of (dogmatic) liberalism, or, a neoliberal theology—interested in sin, evil, theodicy, pastoral care, liberation theology, science, philosophy, and culture. Can anyone redirect these fellas to classical exegesis, classical systematic theology and church history? This process theology led to the LBGT-liberation movement in the Episcopal Church, jammed downwards on the church pew, having been inaugurated at General Seminary in the 1960s and 70s. Women’s ordination, BCP-revision and Pelagianism, the queen Eucharistic, the ordination of sodomites and others didn’t just emerge by 2003 with the fudge-packer Gene Robinson as a Bishop. For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff continues to outline the conflicts between the majority at the Council in favor of Infallibilism and the minority—Dollinger, Hefele and others from Germany, France, and England—advocating for Fallibilism. Pius 9 thinks the Fallibilists have been influenced by Protestantism and “lack the Catholic feeling.” UPSHOT: submit or get booted. Dollinger was booted and now Fenwick of the FCE like those Old Catholic Tridentists. 1994 CCC: affirms the historicity, importance and centrality of the New Testament but slips in—quite mildly—their major off-ramp to Pharisaic “oral tradition” called elsewhere the “Living Tradition” (of dem’ der Papas). Westminster Larger Catechism 118: Q. 118. Why is the charge of keeping the sabbath more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors? A. The charge of keeping the sabbath is more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors, because they are bound not only to keep it themselves, but to see that it be observed by all those that are under their charge; and because they are prone ofttimes to hinder them by employments of their own.