14 February 2015 A.D. Dr. Carl Trueman: Crabs to Ref21's Baptyerians, Dissenters & Rootless Evangelicals about Ash Wednesday & Lent; Cuts Some Slack for Anglicans (“On His Better Days”)
14 February 2015 A.D. Dr. Carl Trueman: Crabs to Ref21's Baptyerians, Dissenters & Rootless Evangelicals about Ash Wednesday & Lent; Cuts Some Slack for Anglicans (“On His Better Days”) Trueman, Carl. “Ash Wednesday: Picking and Choosing Our Piety.” Reformation21. Feb 2015. http://www.reformation21.org/articles/ash-wednesday.php . Accessed 14 Feb 2015. It's that time of year again: the ancient tradition of Lent, kick-started by Ash Wednesday. It is also the time of year when us confessional types brace ourselves for the annual onslaught of a more recent tradition: that of evangelical pundits, with no affiliation to such branches of the church, writing articles extolling Lent's virtues to their own eclectic constituency. Liturgical calendars developed in the fourth century and beyond, as Christianity came to dominate the empire. Cultural dominance requires two things: control of time and space. The latter could be achieved through churches and rel...