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To: NYer

Thank you for your prayers but this has nothing to do with the reformation my friend. Wolves come in all shapes and sizes.


4 posted on 06/03/2005 10:21:39 AM PDT by amosmoses
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To: amosmoses

"this has nothing to do with the reformation"

The origin of the Anglican church is not in any significant theological debate, but in the desire of a secular ruler to obtain a divorce, obtain Church lands and property, and to exercise direct ecclesiastical control. The prime minister still nominates Episcopal candidates. Parliament must vote on any act proposed by the General Synod. The king or queer is the head of the Church of England.

Cardinal John Henry Newman, perhaps the greatest Anglican theologian, helped start the Oxford Movement. Newman and a few of others started this movement to return the Anglican Church to its early roots.

Newman's attempts to link the modern Christian faith with the early Church affirmed many of the doctrines rejected in the Reformation. In the end, Newman was convinced that the first Christians professed the same beliefs practiced by the modern Catholic Church and that the Catholic Church taught with divine authority. Newman eventually concluded that the Church of England was in schism and that Rome was the only valid successor to the historical and ecclesiastical claims of the early Church.


12 posted on 06/03/2005 11:38:26 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Choose life!)
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To: amosmoses
Thank you for your prayers but this has nothing to do with the reformation my friend. Wolves come in all shapes and sizes.

Amen. As Paul warned...

"For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.    

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them...

   And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified." -- Acts 20:29-30;32


13 posted on 06/03/2005 11:44:08 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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