And for heaven's sake, we should not praise God too much in this season! Even though praise and thanksgiving fill every corner of heaven, an activity by which we participate here on earth with choirs of angels and archangels, and even though "Alleluia" and singing God's praises is the way Christians over the centuries have lifted themselves from themselves to God into the heavenly places, we should bury the practice of Alleluias and set up liturgical guards to keep us from thanksgiving.
Read moreDr. Null: I think you've given me ten questions. To start off, what does sola scriptura mean in the 16th century?
Read moreFor this reason, the Board of Trustees of the American Anglican Council has approved a restatement of our faith for the times we live in, The Daniel Declaration: A Call to Mission, A Place to Stand. You will find the entire text of the Daniel Declaration below, and we encourage you to read the whole statement and its Implications for Contemporary Issues.
More worked his way up to become the Lord Chancellor of England, and King Henry's father-figure, secretary, and advisor. He was a celebrated lawyer, philosopher (author of Utopia), statesman, and well respected Renaissance humanist who was personal friends with Erasmus. But the Reformation train was moving too fast to be stopped, and England was changing.
Read more[The ordination of women to the priesthood] was a tragic decision for our church. . . there has been one conflict after another...unfortunately the bishops have been for it, this is an ultra liberal body... I can't tell you what a mess it is.
Read morePietism signals the rise of moralism (deeds over creeds) that has become today's evangelicalism! Are you deeper with God than you were a year ago (usually whispered in a low judging voice)? Are you more like Jesus? How are your quiet-times? Are you making converts and planting more churches?
Read moreThe chief theological architect of those changes was Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Read moreFortunately, both deliberate manipulation of data and ignorant errors must eventually fall to the wayside, for all misinformation is short term. The truth will show itself again and again, and ultimately it cannot be covered up.
Read moreThe end result is a church that reeks high-church niceties with a flimsy sentimental theological underpinning that is more interested in science than biblical revelation. This liberal-catholic ethos has dominated the Church of England ever since (Archbishops Michael Ramsey, Robert Runcie, Rowan Williams, and General and Nashotah House Seminaries).
Read moreCatholics believe that justification is a process by which a person is actually, innately made righteous through the infused righteousness that God makes available to them in the sacraments. Protestants, on the other hand, believe that we are never righteous enough, not innately and not in this life, therefore our salvation depends on Christ's righteousness credited to our account (justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone).
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