An Anglican Cleric--Actually, Really-- Believes in Predestination

 
Life has simple surprises.  Here's another Anglican clergyman who--yes, sit down and take a deep breath--actually believes in Article 17 and Predestination.  Most of them, in my experience, wouldn't know or care about it much like other Reformation themes.  Nor would the parishioners, thanks to the clerics.  This Anglican clergyman actually says this: 


"Arminianism is a serious

Thomas Becon (1512-1567): Cambridge Don, Prebend (Canterbury) & English Reformer

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/3756/Becon-Thomas-1512-1567.html


 Thomas Becon (1512–1567) - BIOGRAPHY, MAJOR WORKS AND THEMES, CRITICAL RECEPTION

Thomas Becon is one of those writers whom students of English history and literature invariably see, when they look at the writers at all, as examples of the “incipient Puritanism” of the mid-Tudor dynasty. One of the most prolific

Dr. R. Scott Clark: "The History of Covenant Theology"

One of those must-buys and must-haves.

From one of the very few trusted voices in the nation and Reformed Churchmanship, an accolade I do not post much, if ever, including R.C. Sproul Sr. (host to Anabaptists at Ligonier Ministries.)  Yet, Ligonier has hosted Scott, thankfully.  Ligonier has dropped the ball with their truculent Baptyerianism.  So has "Ligon `my ole friend' Duncan" with his

Cranmer's Curate: Oak Hill, Wycliffe Hall (Oxford) and Ridley Hall (Cambridge)

WHY OAK HILL STRUGGLES FOR SUPPORT





There are historical reasons why Oak Hill, the Reformed Anglican theological college in north London, struggles to get the backing of English conservative evangelicals. The roots of the current problem lie in the Oxbridge focus of late Victorian Anglican evangelical leaders such as J.C. Ryle.Regularly select preacher at both Oxbridge universities in the