SouthernAnglo

Anglo-American, PROTESTANT Episcopalian/Formulaic Anglican, Reconciliationist, Views Expressed.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

"Christianity has not annihilated the distinction of nations, nor was it intended, as all the previous commentaries plainly declare [Henry, Patrick, and etc] to change the laws of earthly governments, or do away with the social relations established among mankind."

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

The American right should be making a much bigger deal about America 250. Our ancestors did it and we are their living heirs. It is our time and the left subconsciously knows it. We should claim it and make it ours.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

Great point. People often forget that the Confederacy was as politically diverse as the Union.

[Old Tory Right - Scholastic Fundamentalist @rightwingnutrs]

I don’t like this test because it doesn’t ask a single question about where your family lived or anything like that. Like, surely, the main factor in which side you fought for was where you lived and where you identified as coming from.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Same

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

Melanchthon > Luther

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

@Abathurchan Yes, brightly colored:

[laudablePractice @cath_cov]

A post on a 1900 survey of ritual practices in PECUSA - and an intriguing reference to "three dioceses in which the churchmanship is of the staunch sort: not high, and yet most decidely not Low".

Link below.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

@wtanksleyjr So, is it your position that a virtuous pagan who has never heard the gospel can be saved?

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

One problem I have with Arminianism is its inclusivism. I don’t see much evidence that pagans isolated from missionaries can be saved without ever embracing the gospel. It would de to destroy the impetus for evangelization.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

@wtanksleyjr Exclusivism meaning that those adults who have never heard or embraced the gospel cannot be saved.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

@wtanksleyjr The Arminian understanding of God’s desire to save all men and that everyone is given a chance for salvation seems to be fatally undermined by exclusivism, which would mean that a large section of humanity that never heard the gospel never had the opportunity for salvation.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

@wtanksleyjr Based on my limited research, it seems like most English Arminians were inclusivist, such as Wesley.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

You can have the reformers, the confessions, or even the Bible on your side. That doesn’t matter if Pastor Snowflake controls the church courts.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

Christian Nationalists need to realize the church politics is basically the same as actual politics. Might makes right, influence matters, and unofficial networks of powerful people get things done. This cannot be rejected, it unfortunately has to be imitated to win.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

Hooker, Cranmer, Jewel, & Waterland.

[Anglochog ⚓🇦🇺 @anglochog]

Anglican edition

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

@_wereback Here’s a few:

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

A Protestant Episcopalian view of Church-State Relations in the US (from the 1928 BCP):
"O Lord, save the state."
"Most heartily we beseech thee, with thy favor to behold and bless they *𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵* The President OF THE United States, and all others in authority; and so...

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

There are many negatives to being a modern Anglican (theological free-for-all, women's ordination, anti-confessionalism, liturgical free-for-all, general incoherence), but at least our liturgy rules out the liberal PCA understanding of the magistrate.

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

I’ve been able to look over the latest study report. I agree with some of it and obviously disagree with several things. The authors have, in several places, confounded and confused nature/grace (in ways they wouldn’t allow in their theology seminars, I hope), earth/heaven, and ecclesial/civil; they’ve restricted government action in ways that few would recognize historically; and they have, in violation of Reformed principles, extended spiritual equality from theology and the church into politics and civil society.

The thing is, they must do this to affirm political liberalism—pull from theology to get universalist and egalitarian liberalism. And that’s the worst part of it. It functionally requires PCA ministers to be modern political liberals. Few Presbyterians born before 1965 could be ministers in the PCA. The report baptizes postwar liberalism.

I recommend that people read Reformed Christian Politics to find a better method, consistently applied principles, a close reading of the Standards, and faithfulness to the broad Reformed tradition. The irony is that we leave more room for variations of political arrangements. This recent report insists that the timeless politics of Jesus is modern liberalism.

I’m traveling. So I’ll provide an in-depth response later.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

@Young_Anglican In relation to polygamy and divorce, we never see God telling anyone to marry an additional spouse or divorce their spouse.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

The Bible clearly condones forms of slavery, so an unqualified condemnation of slavery in general presents many problems to those who hold to biblical inerrancy.

[Link @_Link_]

PCA Study Committee on Christian Nationalism states slavery as a moral evil.

Leviticus 25:44–46

“As for your male and female servants that you will have you shall purchase male and female servants from the nations that are around you. Also from the children of the sojourners who are among you, you may purchase from them and from their families who are among you, whom they begat in your land, and they shall be your property. You shall also bequeath them as an inheritance for your children after you, and they shall be for you as permanent servants; but over your brothers, the children of Israel, each man shall not exercise authority over his brother with rigor.”

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

@Young_Anglican The problem with this is that God explicitly tells the Israelites to take slaves. We can't say that God would tell the Israelites to do something intrinsically evil.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

Fishback is a weirdo who gives off scammer vibes.

[AF Post @AFpost]

Semafor reports that after Zach Lahn’s upset win in Iowa last night, James Fishback’s campaign received “half a dozen” calls from donors interested in funding his campaign.

Follow: @AFpost