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February 07 2024 By dvirtue THE DANIEL DECLARATION

For 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.

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February 07 2024 By dvirtue SIR THOMAS MORE: Statesman or Religious Fanatic?

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.

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February 06 2024 By dvirtue THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN AND THE ANGLICAN-EPISCOPAL EXPERIENCE: THE ROAD TO SCHISM

[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.

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February 05 2024 By dvirtue PHILIPP JAKOB SPENER: Pietism's Treadmill Leads to Assurance-based Performance and Moralism

Pietism 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?

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February 01 2024 By dvirtue EDWARD VI: England's First Protestant Monarch Inspires the Protestant Reformation

The chief theological architect of those changes was Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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January 20 2024 By dvirtue Science and the Bible: A Relationship Revisited

Fortunately, 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.

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January 18 2024 By dvirtue "LUX MUNDI"

The 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).

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January 15 2024 By dvirtue JUSTIFICATION & TRENT: How the Roman Catholic Church got it Wrong

Catholics 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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January 02 2024 By dvirtue THE TREADMILL OF DISCIPLESHIP

Either Jesus meant that our full salvation (justification, sanctification and glorification) was accomplished in the It-Is-Finished event on the cross, or it is "almost" finished. Either we are blessed in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, or just some.

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January 02 2024 By dvirtue Circumcision of the Flesh

But by eliminating this observance, the church has reduced the symbolism of birth, death and resurrection. Jesus of course did not derive from Joseph's seed, and Jesus never used his circumcised member to produce a new class of demigods, the way that the Greeks viewed their heroes, Hercules, Achilles and all those born of the union of a god and a human.

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