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Archive for December 5th, 2007

Scripture, tradition and Erastian heresy (art. XXXIV)

(This post is part of a series on the 39 articles of the Church of England)
If the bulk of the articles address issues of controversy with Rome, some look at controversies with the more radical wing of the Reformation, such as the thirty-fourth:
XXXIV. Of the Traditions of the Church
It is not necessary that Traditions and [...]

Commandments, contexts and castrati

In a generally humourous comment on this earlier post, Peter Kirk says:
Well, in Matthew 23:9 RSV it says “call no man your father on earth”, which is of course why Christians who obey the Bible (which apparently did not include Cranmer) do not call their pastors “Father”.

Now I don’t know exactly where Peter’s tongue is [...]

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