"Thomas Cranmer and the Lively Word"
"Thomas Cranmer and the Lively Word"
By The Rev'd Dr. Ashley Null
Special to Virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
April 3, 2012
The Protestant Reformers viewed themselves as Catholic Christians living out the ancient faith according to its most authoritative document, the Bible. Secondly, that the Protestant reformers understood true conversion inspired by God working through Scripture to be both an initial moment of the re-orientation of personal identity and an on-going commitment to a changed way of life. The third key insight we need to bear in mind is that Cranmer's biblical hermeneutic was neither the Sola Scriptura of nineteenth-century American Protestantism nor the Patristic consensus of the Caroline and Oxford Movement Divines.
Let's now turn to this last point. Without a doubt, Scripture was the ultimate authority for matters of faith and doctrine for the Edwardian church. Unlike latter Anglican claims, now thoroughly debunked by Jean-Louis Quantin's vociferous The Church of England and Christian Antiquity, the sixteenth-century English Divines did not read Scripture through a Patristic consensus. Yet, Anglicanism's Sola Scriptura did not read the Bible apart from the Fathers.
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By The Rev'd Dr. Ashley Null
Special to Virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
April 3, 2012
Let's now turn to this last point. Without a doubt, Scripture was the ultimate authority for matters of faith and doctrine for the Edwardian church. Unlike latter Anglican claims, now thoroughly debunked by Jean-Louis Quantin's vociferous The Church of England and Christian Antiquity, the sixteenth-century English Divines did not read Scripture through a Patristic consensus. Yet, Anglicanism's Sola Scriptura did not read the Bible apart from the Fathers.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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