An editorial downgrading
Recently, BOT editor, Walter Chantry, published three essays under the title ‘Sort of’ Reformed, dealing, amongst other things, with New Covenant Theology. 1 Though he concluded that new NCT is worse than old Neonomianism, he accepted many NCT ideas regarding ‘moral law’ and Mosaic Law, arguing for a new Neonomianism and a new emphasis on man’s moral duties. This makes him a ‘sort of’ NCT himself. …
Posts Tagged Walter Travers
The debates between the Master of the Temple Church, Richard Hooker and his Deputy Walter Travers between 1585-1586 sparked off controversies which are still unsettled. The original subject matter, however, has been radically altered through changing theological fashions and back-projections of subsequent controversies. The original discussions arose through differences regarding preaching and lecturing, public worship, predestination, justification, the Lord’s Supper, and …
Clifford on Hooker
Nov 12
… evaluation of Hooker are invalid. Beckwith defended Hooker against the London Temple attacks of Travers and Cartwright. Dr. Clifford ignores the entire debate, exchanging Beckwith’s real-life Hooker/Travers/Cartwright history for a Church of England/Calvin fairy-story.
Cartwright zigzagged on the Church of England-Separatist border but maintained his Church of England status and ordination. Unlike Hooker, he viewed church reform as material for the courts and Parliament rather …
… to Particular Baptists pioneers such as Booth, Gill and Ryland Sen. and modern Baptists such as Walter Chantry. NCT rejects the old Baptist view of the covenant within the Trinity before the foundation of the world and their covenant of promise with man as the scene, setting and venue of grace. They replaces it with a highly sacramental view of ‘immersionism’. NCT leader Reisinger is, however, as severe in his condemnation of Reformed Baptists as he is of Presbyterians. His quip that …
The Synod of Dort
Aug 17
… and learning. Equal to them was the representative for the Church of Scotland, Gualter (Walter) Balcanqual, Fellow of Pembroke College. Hall became ill during the Synod and was replaced by Abbot’s chaplain, Thomas Goad, a man well-known for preaching against Pelagianism. Presbyterian Prof. Miller of Princeton wrote of these British representatives:
“It would have been difficult to select men of more respectable character for talents, learning, piety, and ecclesiastical …
… and Independents ought to have honoured for that fact alone. So, too, Samuel Ward and Scotsman Walter Balcanqual who represented Britain at Dort were severely persecuted, Balcanqual to death. Synod of Dort man Bishop Davenant, one of the finest Reformed men any church has ever had, saw the writing on the wall but died shortly before the persecutions started. His equally Reformed family, which included Edward Davenant and Church Historian Thomas Fuller, were either removed from their …
