Friday, June 28, 2013

A WONDERFUL RESOURCE - Essential Truths for Christians - John Rodgers

A WONDERFUL RESOURCE
Essentials Truths for Christians by John Rodgers

A Review by Ted Schroder
June 27, 2013

I have just completed reading through John Rodgers magnificent commentary on the Anglican Thirty-Nine Articles and an introduction to Systematic Theology entitled Essential Truths for Christians. I read a chapter or two each morning and it was like feasting at a banquet of soul food. The menu was Anglican Reformation Theology, biblical orthodoxy served with contemporary concerns and a clear, conversational style.

For those who don't know, the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion are the Church of England's confession of faith written by Thomas Cranmer and his friends during the English Reformation of the sixteenth century. On my first Sunday at All Souls Church in London after I was ordained I had to declare that I assented to these articles, and believed that the doctrine of the Church of England to be agreeable to the Word of God. I have this assent framed in my office to this day.

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