Agnes Prest
They say, that Christ is received in the mouth, and entereth in with the bread and wine: we say, that he is received in the heart, and entereth in by faith.
John Day and Foxe’s Book
John Day died July 23, 1583 after a long and constant career of promoting the Bible as God’s uniquely inspired Word.
Christianity’s Dangerous Idea
The Bible is plain to read and plain to understand by ordinary people in all essential matters pertaining to salvation (Articles of Religion, Article 6).
Mad Nun of Kent
Elizabeth Barton, known as the “Mad Nun of Kent,” was executed on April 20, 1534 - the same year that the Church of England broke its connection with the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
Dissolve those Monasteries!
The Medieval Church had grown to be too rich, too powerful, and too corrupt: a far cry from what the fishermen of Galilee had intended.
The Dead Sea Scroll Revealed
The Dead Sea scrolls gives us the Old Testament 1,000 years closer to its original autograph!
Matthew’s Bible
He must have been a monster criminal to deserve such a horrible death. John Rogers was the first of 282 Protestants killed by Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary").
Gutenberg Did It
Who was responsible for the 16th century Reformation in England? Johannes Gutenberg! Well not singlehandedly, of course, but the German entrepreneur and inventor certainly contributed substantially to the perfect storm.
Erasmus’s Crazy Obsession
The "ad fontes" (back to the sources) cry of the Renaissance and 16th century Humanism drove Erasmus like a wild obsession to write and publish the first edition of the Greek New Testament from ancient sources, "Novum Testamentum.”
Wonky Legacy of Charles Gore
Charles Gore was a shaky wall of feel-good progressivism unanchored to anything permanent, that continues prominent in Anglicanism today.
All Those Contradictions!
The Anglican formularies give us an “Anglican way” of reading and interpreting Holy Scripture.
Wyclif v. the Pope
Perhaps the best marker for the beginning of the English Reformation is not Erasmus, Martin Luther or Thomas Cranmer, but John Wyclif.
Grindal’s Stubborn Letter
His letter to Queen Elizabeth pointed out why she was wrong to suppress public preaching and asked her to keep her nose out of the spiritual government of the church.
