August 12, 2020 Show with Roger Salter on “Unconditional Election, Thomas Cranmer, & the Reformed Church of England”

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And I say without fear of flattery or exaggeration that I am interviewing today one of my favorite guests, somebody who's grown very near and dear to me as a friend and someone who I pray that I have many years of fellowship awaiting us, he and his wife, his lovely wife, Maureen.

I'm speaking of Roger Salter, who is rector of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Birmingham, Alabama. And we are going to be addressing today Unconditional Election and the Little Known Fact that Anglican martyr Thomas Cranmer structured the Reformed Church of England on divine predestination.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Roger Salter.

Well, as always, Chris, it's an immense humility, kindness, and patience.

Well, I just love having you on and look forward to many, many more interviews, as long or as many as the Lord will permit. And before we go into our subject at hand, tell us about St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Well, describe us the value of theology, which means that that's in any sense of we actually share. Yes, sir. We feel. Amen.

Well, if anybody wants more information on St. Matthew's Anglican Church of Birmingham, you can go to STM, which stands for St. Matthew's, stmanglican .weebly .com, stmanglican .weebly, W-E-E-B as in boy, L-Y, dot com.

You can also go to rogersalter .com. That's rogersalter .com. And his last name is spelt without the P, as many of you might have immediately thought of spelling it because of the Old Testament hymn book that we have there in the Scriptures, known as the Psalter.

And we are just so thrilled to have Roger back, as I was saying. And in fact, I think that our listeners should also know about Grace Covenant Baptist Church in Birmingham, the aforementioned Reformed Baptist Church that shares a building with St. Matthew's in Birmingham.

Todd Wilson is the pastor, and their website is gracecovenantbaptist .org, gracecovenantbaptist .org. I figured I'd throw that out there. And we have discussed on this program, since I happen to be a Calvinist, anybody who knows me or knows the program, that is probably one of the first things they think of is the fact that I am a die-hard, dyed-in-the-wool, thoroughgoing, unapologetic, unabashed, five-point Calvinist.

And I have brought up the subject and have interviewed on this program guests who have dealt with and focused on the subject of unconditional election before. But I think this is specifically the first time we've addressed it from a unique perspective, and that is the history of the Anglican Church, and even more specifically from the viewpoint of the great hero of the English Reformation that unfortunately is very rarely discussed outside of Anglicanism, and even more specifically outside of Reformed Anglicanism.

Speaking of Thomas Cranmer, somebody that should be viewed as a hero not merely by Anglicans, but on anyone who loves the gospel of the Reformation, whether you are an Anglican, a Reformed Baptist, a Presbyterian, a Congregationalist, a Dutch Reformed Christian, or whatever branch of the Reformation you claim to be an heir from, people should get to know more about Thomas Cranmer.

And after this show's over, I strongly urge you to go to the Iron Trip and Zion website and click on past shows, podcast, and then in the search engine type in Cranmer, C-R-A-N as in Nebraska, M as in Mary, E-R, Cranmer, the N goes before the M just like Cranberry, the N goes before the B in Cranberry, but just keep that might enable you to remember how to spell it because I have frequently misspelled Cranmer, putting the M first by mistake, the M as in Mary first by mistake.

But he is a fascinating figure from church history. Before we go into the more specific role of Cranmer and the structuring of the Reformed Church of England and the Book of Common Prayer that you are going to be deriving some of your information from today, please, if you could, define unconditional election for our listeners, especially for the sake of those who are outside of our theological circles and may not be completely familiar with the term or they may completely misunderstand it because they've been told slanderous things about it.

That don't even resemble the truth of history or scripture. And one of the reasons why we who are.

Reformed and Calvinists use the term unconditional election is because of the one of the very reasons that you mentioned in your description that this divine election, this predestination occurs before any thought, action, response from the human, whereas those who are outside of the Reformed faith who believe, nonetheless, in the inerrancy of scripture, they have anywhere from an expertise to a cursory knowledge of the scripture or somewhere in between, they know that election and predestination are in the Bible.

They know that this is something that is taught there, but they, according to us, obviously, are incorrect in the way that they exegete those passages. But they believe, for the most part, that God elects people by the condition or because of the condition that those who he knows will, in the future, have faith in him and believe in him and follow him.

And so it is one of those situations where they believe God is looking through the corridors of time. And since most outside the Reformed faith, with the exception of some heretics that believe in what is known as open theism, they believe that God knows all things in the future, and it is on the basis of that knowledge that he chooses some and bypasses others.

But we who are Reformed believe that the Bible does not teach that at all, and that would mean that men were electing God and not the other way around. Does that make sense, what I just said,.

Roger? Absolutely, Chris. Any qualification or potential? I'm going to give out our email address.

For the sake of those who are listening who would like to send in a question to Roger Salter about anything in regard to the Anglican Church. We will broaden the spectrum of the subject matter on which we welcome you to join us in the conversation, but we would be especially pleased if you were to send in questions specifically on the doctrine of unconditional election and how it ties in with the history of the Anglican Church, and specifically with Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, who was the Archbishop under the reign of King Henry VIII, although, and I believe I may have asked you this before, but I think it bears repeating, the world-renowned Anglican scholar who is a Thomas Cranmer scholar, Dr. Ashley Null, who is teaching in Berlin, I have interviewed him a number of times, and that would include discussions on Cranmer, since he has actually written on Cranmer, but he said that it is clearly evident from history that although Cranmer was King Henry VIII's Archbishop, he did not view Henry as a regenerate Christian until his deathbed, when he asked Henry if he believed in justification by faith alone to squeeze his hand, and Henry did, and Cranmer embraced that as a reason to have confidence and hope that Henry finally had his eyes opened by the sovereign grace of God and became a born-again believer before departing this earth, so would.

You share that account as being valid? Absolutely, deeply. And it's also interesting, fascinating to.

Me, that Cranmer, before his act of cowardice when Rome ascended into power again after the death of King Henry VIII, where Cranmer denied the faith, but later, thankfully, he recanted his recantation and bravely marched to his own execution and told the executioner to thrust his hand into the flames first, the very hand that signed his recantation of Reformed theology, which he did initially as an act of cowardice, but it's interesting that before that Cranmer was so dedicated to the truth that he very boldly structured the Church of England and clearly taught, and including in his 39 articles of religion, made it clear that he believed in the Reformed faith and believed that that is the biblical faith and believed that should be the faith of Anglicanism, even though Henry was, for all intents and purposes, a Roman Catholic in his theology at the time, other than his denial of the primacy of the Pope, obviously, because that was the key area of his departure from Rome, was that he wanted no one above him in authority.

Am I explaining things correctly here? Yes, and I think there.

Are numbers. We have a listener question, and I think that he really asked some excellent.

Questions that I would have asked myself to begin our specific questioning on Cranmer's views on predestination. We have Donald from Jacksonville, North Carolina, and he has a somewhat humorous, but even, I would say, a very true sentiment that he signs off his email with that I would say a hearty amen to.

He says, make Reformed theology great again, and then he adds something that would be near and dear to your heart as an Anglican, make old prayer book churchmanship great again, and then he has, make Anglican cathedral tradition music great again.

Yes, yes, and I think I have an idea as to... Well, I'm sure he wouldn't mind if I gave his name, Donald Philip Veitch, and I may be mispronouncing his last name. We attended a.

Nationally known lecture here together in Birmingham a couple of years ago. Oh, wow. He.

Opens up by asking, looking for Dr. Cranmer's explicit views on predestination. Yes, could I.

Ask him? Oh, yeah, definitely. I mean, I don't want to... By far more of an expert, especially.

Since I'm not an expert at all on this subject, so I believe that you should take the reins here, and obviously our Anglican listeners are going to be most interested in the connection to the prayer book, and in fact, perhaps you could even, before citing from the prayer book, explain exactly what prayer book churchmanship is, why is the prayer book so important to you, and I know that it even has caused division from those that shared Anglican roots and so on, but if you could.

I mean, the prayer book, the article, I think I might be right in saying that it was the prayer book.

And maybe it bears a little bit of clarification or explanation. Yes. The via media, or via media, depending upon where you live, how to pronounce that, the middle way, some would say that's specifically talking about an effort to appease polar opposites within Anglicanism, both those on the Romish side and those on the evangelical side, and others would have said that the more correct way to view the via or via media is between Lutheranism and Calvinism, but you were specifically addressing the middle way approach by some Anglicans, by many Anglicans, when it comes to the extreme differences on the Romish or Oxford movement side and the.

Evangelical side. Yes, that's the way Cranmer would have... Yes, of course. Okay. While you're.

Looking it up, I'm going to repeat our email address, chrisarnsen at gmail .com, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com. Give us your first name at least, your city and state of residence, and your country of residence, if you live outside the USA.

By the way, Donald, our listener who sent in the question from North Carolina, has corrected me in my pronunciation. His last name is pronounced.

Veatch. I'm ready, Chris. Okay, go ahead. He's talking about, you know, radicals and in the Church of England to be a cause of embarrassment to later commentators who do not wish to see Cranmer as he was.

That Thomas Cranmer... Amen. ...and the pages could make the marginal comment in a comment soon afterwards. Any tie between human merit, I think, to make it clear...

In fact, we have to go to our first break right now, and we'll pick up right where you left off. If anybody would like to join us on the air with a question, we still have a couple of questions from Donald in Jacksonville, North Carolina, that I'd like to read to you.

They're so good that I didn't want to skip any of them. But if any of you would like to join Donald on the air with a question of your own, our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com. Chrisarnson at gmail .com.

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We are addressing the theme, Unconditional Election and the little known fact that Anglican martyr Thomas Cranmer structured the Reformed Church of England on divine predestination. Our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com.

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Before I return to a couple of more of Donald Veitch's questions, Donald Veitch from Jacksonville, North Carolina, who's written some excellent questions here that are very pertinent to the discussion since he is an Anglican also.

If you could, let our listeners know, because a lot of Anglican buzzwords, buzzphrases, vocabulary is totally foreign to those outside of Anglicanism. So exactly what is the prayer book, and why do many Anglicans get so passionate over which.

Prayer book you use? Well, the origins would also find their root in Cranmer as well, and of course.

I know that you believe that there are biblical roots in this in regard to the teaching, but as far as the human roots of the Book of Common Prayer. Did you say Jews? Oh, I said Cranmer. Yes. Is Cranmer the author of the original Book of Common Prayer?

No, he took a lot of the... But he compiled it. Yes, he compiled it. And why is there such passion in regard to which Book of Common Prayer, which year, which revision people use? There seems to be.

Sharp disagreement among Anglicans in this regard. Yes. Which prayer book do you use.

As far as the year? If you were to ask somebody, which prayer book does your Anglican congregation use, what would bring a smile to your face in regard to the answer?

Well, you know, we have to go to our midway break right now, and if you want to just pick up where.

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Banu Gadi earned a doctorate in pharmacy degree and is very knowledgeable on the current coronavirus pandemic. Please contact Dr. Gadi so he and his expert staff can give you proper guidance amid all the contradictory confusion we are all hearing in the media.

To find the pharmacy nearest you, call 516 -354 -2000, that's 516 -354 -2000, or order online at leesdrugsrx .com, that's L-E-E-S drugsrx .com. Don't forget to ask about their discount generic drug program.

Greetings in the.

Matchless name of our Lord Jesus Christ. My name is Banu Gadi. I'm a pharmacist in New York, which is the epicenter of the latest crisis the world is going through. In Psalm 139 verse 14, the psalmist offers praise to the Lord like this, I praise you because I'm fearfully and wonderfully made, and wondrous are your works that my soul knows very well.

He saw God's goodness and mercy, kindness, and the beauty in what God has designed, and he has erupted into praise. In any crisis or problem, brothers and sisters, our only fallback position is to trust God's design, and once we do, there is nothing for us to do but to erupt in praise to him.