Sir:
Iain Murray’s excellent, necessarily selective, overview of evangelicalism’s ups and downs (Issues 455-6) reveals the need of more pan-European study of the growth of Liberalism. Schleiermacher, of Moravian background and heart, was very much influenced by British Latidudinarians from whom he gained his love of Natural Law as opposed to revealed law. British Methodism helped …
Posts Tagged Continental Täufer sect
E. T. Clifford on Doddridge
Aug 22
Sir:
In his recent ET article defending saintly Doddridge against adverse criticism, Dr. Clifford ended by stating,
“Even more at odds with the facts, Dr George Ella asserts that Doddridge’s Calvinism was ‘higher’ than Dr John Gill’s!”
This is incorrect. My original ET article (Feb. 1995), including Doddridge’s balanced analysis of Calvinism, which I share, was …
… or pouring. Indeed, of the numerous 16th century documents testifying to the practice of the Täufer, we find Grebel, Mantz, Hut, Hubmaier, Münzer, Römer, Spitelmeier etc. using many different forms of baptism which had nothing to do with immersion. Some candidates had a wet hand placed on their heads, others were baptised with three drops of water signifying the Trinity, a number had a wet sign of the cross marked on their foreheads, and some had a skillet of water poured over them. …
… Doing away with baptism altogether
This logical conclusion was made by many a Continental Täufer sect in the early days of their movement, who argued quite logically that if the spiritual event has occurred, one needs no fleshly event to proclaim its coming. This fact is illustrated by the development of the Paulician sect in the eight and ninth centuries. Many present day Baptists look upon the Paulicians as their fore-runners. John T. Christian, though admitting that …
Clifford on Hooker
Nov 12
… plotting with those who felt Luther, Bullinger and Calvin were too forbearing. This theology-less sect created a religion of order, discipline and case-law which shattered the German churches. Cartwright planted this splitter-bomb in England.
Hooker was preferred to Travers as Master of the Temple, so Travers condemned Hooker and the Church of England in his lectures. Though not a Church of England minister, he pressed ambitiously for Parliament to replace the Reformed Book of …
John Paul II
Aug 21
… Reformation and Collette’s’ The Novelties of Romanism, will realise how the Vatican sect, erroneously known as the Roman Catholic Church, is a pseudo-religious movement of a relatively young age. Indeed, it is a corrupt, political institution of which communism, fascism, the Mafia and the lodges are mere pale reflections. It arose amongst the ranks of those who wished to force a world-wide, man-made, occult system onto the masses. Theirs is an absolute, tyrannical plan to …
… greater than most other British Kings and during his reign, he was used by God to influence the Continental, Irish and English courts, universities and churches towards adopting the doctrines of grace. Indeed, one of the greatest ever blessings to world-wide Christianity, the Canons of Dort, is directly traceable to King James’ own initiative under God. So too, the greatest Bible translation of all time for the English-speaking world, the Authorised or King James Version, was also in …
Where Olyott Got It Wrong
Mar 10
… also Luther’s. It comes nearer the three Bs (Bultmann, Barth and Brunner) of the Neo-Orthodox sect. So what is Olyott talking about? He starts by defining what he feels is Luther’s error.
The Error
Without allowing Luther to speak for himself, Olyott claims that he was wrong. We must therefore ask why Olyott chose Martin Luther for a platform for his own wishy-washy theology as Superman’s Lex Luthor would have done just as well for an Aunt Sally. Olyott’s …
Puritan Papers
Aug 18
… Pharisees. Happily during the Edwardian and Elizabethan golden age of the English church, Continental Reformers such as Bucer, Calvin, Martyr, Bullinger, Gualter and Zanchy, and after a while, even Beza, joined hands with the Reformed Church of England in condemning their practices.
When John Foxe found that these Precisian enemies of the Reformed Church of England, in their efforts to discredit him, were persecuting his son Samuel, and his fellow-reformer Lawrence …
Letter on Scientology
Sep 15
… 7721). It gives the impression that Scientology is respected in Germany where measures against the sect are stricter than in most other countries, including Britain and the USA. Neither the Osnabrücker Zeitung, nor Wolfgang Bosbach, nor Angela Merkel nor the Coalition Government view Scientology as respectable but see the movement as most dangerous. However, Bosbach’s words have been translated into ‘High Noon’ jargon and combined with outdated internet information from the middle …
