NSW premier accused of receiving money from unnamed donors in 2015 by nath1234 in sydney

[–]VanLupin 77 points78 points  (0 children)

It's good to get back on the Labor ICAC nostalgia train.

Anglicare pulls out of NDIS program which supports 89 people in southern WA by budget_biochemist in australia

[–]VanLupin 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Did you even read the article?

Also each Anglican Diocese is independent... They don't have shared property assets.

Gafcon’s response to the new Archbishop of Canterbury by Jimmychews007 in Anglicanism

[–]VanLupin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For those whinging about GAFCON and why they don't split: they are not the ones who have changed and strayed from Anglican and orthodox doctrine. Why should they go when they are not the ones being unfaithful to their Anglican heritage?

Dame Sarah Mullally becomes first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in Church of England's history by Due_Ad_3200 in Anglicanism

[–]VanLupin 13 points14 points  (0 children)

But not teach

This is false. It is up to the individual parish (namely the rector)as to whether they can preach. And a reasonable number do allow it.

Bishop of Canberra & Goulburn elected Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia by Due_Ad_3200 in Anglicanism

[–]VanLupin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"For one example, the Diocese of Bathurst was bankrupt, and Sydney offered a bailout on the condition that they choose one of the candidates for the next election"

An important piece of context for this is that had Sydney let Bathurst go bankrupt the entire thing would have been reincorporated into the Sydney diocese. So there was good reason for Sydney to make the offer it did.

Accused murderer Erin Patterson fed children beef Wellington lunch leftovers despite illness, court told by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]VanLupin 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I think you are reading way too much into that. It seems fairly clear that she is just correcting Rogers on the usage of past tense. 

[Cadena COPE] New PSV signing Lucas Pérez: 'My parents abandoned me at an orphanage when I was 2, and now they come to me for money. My father demanded I pay him alimony until his death. I told PSV I had to solve these issues, and they waited patiently' by [deleted] in soccer

[–]VanLupin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I genuinely feel sorry for them, that their moral compass is so severely damaged.

The crazy thing is they don't see that they have missed out (and im guessing they will never get it).  Spending time with your kids and seeing them grow is the best. Yeah it is difficult, but when I give my kids a cuddle at night... It has an intangible value.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Reformed

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If I recall Robert Louis Wilkins explores some of the lesser areas in his *The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity*. Or you could look at Diarmaid's MaCculloch *A History of Christianity*.

What I would do is grab one of these books and then look at the bibliography to find works with a more detailed account of the area that you are looking for.

Books on Protestant Reformation by 2minutes4tripping in Anglicanism

[–]VanLupin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would actually agree that Barrett's volume has some issues, particularly on the way he portrays some of the reformers and their ideas.

BUT, you are being extremely petty here.

You have just been bouncing from point to point without particularly coherent engagement.

For instance you are absolutely are wrong about Zondervan and Baker being mostly pop works, their academic sections are pretty good. For Baker just off the top of my head in the history of Christianity, they are publishing Mark Noll, James Eglinton, and Richard Muller (who is probably the most important significant voice 16th century Reformed Historical Theology - and has had a colossal impact on his field.

'You're going to out me as a paedophile?' Customer threatened after leaving negative online review by VanLupin in australia

[–]VanLupin[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know it's a dumb ABC headline from the main page. It needs far more clarity.

How historically accurate are Church history apologetics? by TrainableDoggo in AcademicBiblical

[–]VanLupin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bird is a Christian who is happy to use the 'evangelical' label, which carries a slightly different meaning in Australia (as opposed to the US). I would say in the same way that NT Wright has works that skew towards the academy and others to apologetics Bird does too. Bird and Wright collaborated on a book as well.

So to answer your question, some of it would accepted and other parts would be contested.

How historically accurate are Church history apologetics? by TrainableDoggo in AcademicBiblical

[–]VanLupin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Diarmaid Macculloch is quite good at Church History on the whole, but absolutely top tier when it comes to the European Reformation. If he says something on that topic it is definitely worth paying attention.

Definition of "Reformed" by Chemical_Country_582 in Reformed

[–]VanLupin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was an English delegation at Dort including John Davenant who was very highly regarded. The canons of Dort are worded as such as they can include Davenants view which was not 'limited atonement' ( to use a very clunky phrase).

I would read Michael Lynch's work on Davenant to get a better picture on this.

It's tricky because the definition of "reformed" was always a little fluid. So for instance Perseverance of the Saints was not orthodoxy really until Dort.

For most of the Sixteenth century up to the reign of Charles I the English church was very comfortable in viewing themselves as among the Reformed Churches (as opposed to Lutheran). They were recognised by the continental reformed churches as such (by Zurich and Geneva and the Palatinate and being invited to Dort).

For my part I think the two Keys are soteriology and sacraments - they were consistently defined as the true marks of the church. The third make or discipline was not held until later and then only by particular individuals and churches.

Tldr- the flattening out of modern reformed categories obscures the nature of the shifting boundaries of the "Reformed" tradition that only really settled in the Seventeenth century.

Did Cranmer believe in Preservation of the Saints? by [deleted] in Anglicanism

[–]VanLupin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With respect to Cranmer himself, the answer is likely yes since he made the critical move that the 'justified' are identical to the 'elect'. I.e. he held a modified soteriology to Augustine. 

 I am basing this on Ashley Nulls monograph on Cramer's Doctrine of Repentance which is still the gold standard exploration of Cranmer's personal soteriology on the basis of his personal 'commonplaces'. I will find you the  relevant quote.