15 May 2014 A.D. Rev. Dr. Prof. Ashley Null—Divine Allurements: Cranmer’s Comfortable Words
Peter Toon Lecture 2014 Divine Allurement - Cranmer's Comfortable Words. By Dr Ashley Null. The Peter Toon Lecture 2014. Because justification by faith emphasized personal faith, persuasion was important to the Protestant Reformers. The verb ‘allure’ was thus closely connected with their expression of the Gospel, and this is reflected in the liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer. Cranmer’s work not only gave the church its distinctive identity at the time of the Reformation, but has subsequently had a formative influence on worldwide Anglicanism. Peter Toon was a Yorkshireman, an Anglican minister, theologian and church historian. He was formerly librarian of Latimer House in Oxford, curate of St Ebbe’s, and later a tutor at Oak Hill College. He went on to serve in churches in the United States until almost the end of his life. He was President of the Prayer Book Society in the United States, but eventually returned to serve as Priest-in-Charge of a Staffordshire village chu...