July 21, 2021 Show with Roger Salter on “The Anglican Structure of Faith, Scripture, Reason & Tradition, & its Abuse”

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He is rector of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Birmingham, Alabama which is a very conservative traditional and reformed Anglican congregation much in the tradition of Thomas Cranmer and today we are going to be addressing a very controversial and yet also very important theme the Anglican structure of faith scripture reason and tradition and its abuse by both the left and the Anglo-Catholics and the need to reclaim Richard Hooker and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens.

Iron Radio, Roger Salter. Thank you very much Chris. I really appreciate that brother and tell our listeners about St. Matthew's Anglican Church of Birmingham, Alabama. St. Matthew's. And therefore as our.

Subtitle would indicate you are neither a leftist church, a liberal church that could very accurately be categorized in many circumstances as apostate.

And you are also not Anglo-Catholics. You have to word and call it. Well if anybody is interested.

In finding out more about St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Birmingham, Alabama the websites are stm an abbreviation for St. Matthew's anglican .weebly .com that's w-e-e b as in boy l-y stmanglican .weebly .com and you can also go to rogersalter .com and that's s-a-l-t-e-r rogersalter .com and I am really looking forward to this program today as I always am interviewing you.

Tell us first of all about this this structure this formula of Anglican faith scripture reason and tradition and first of all explain to our listeners whether or not you believe this should be jettisoned altogether or if there was a good godly and biblical intent behind the origins of that formula.

There are non-Anglicans evangelicals and fundamentalists who sometimes criticize any use of that formula and I think it might be perhaps because they're misunderstanding it they may think that you're putting human reason and human tradition on the same plane or par or level of importance of scripture but explain in your own words this.

Formula and how it came about. Well I don't hear so much about the Anglican heritage and I think so I think this means that. Now tell us some more details about Richard Hooker that is a name that.

Has come up several times on my program and one in particular I can remember an angry Arminian Anglican said that my guests and I who were reformed Anglicans such as yourself it may have even been in response to one of your interviews I'm not certain but he was saying that we were misrepresenting Anglicanism as being historically reformed and he was attributing to Richard Hooker in an idea known as the via media.

And even the via media as you are well aware has had two different interpretations within Anglicanism. The one the one would be it is a midway attempt or approach between Protestantism and Catholicism in order to keep harmony between those two wings.

And yet there's another understanding of via media is that it's a midway approach between Calvinism and Lutheranism. And if you could pick up where I left off there on.

Richard Hooker and the via media. Well I think you specifically iron out in ways that you haven't.

Mentioned yet how both leftists and Anglo-Catholics misuse Hooker's formula of scripture reason and.

Tradition. And we'll start with the leftists. Well you know the Lutheran tradition especially in the academy and usually in the upper echelons of the ministry. They went through but they still do exist and they've.

There's a renewed force. It's not even a anything to and everything. Uh that's interesting.

That uh Alistair McGrath would hand over Hooker to the Armenians. Uh isn't Alistair McGrath a Calvinist.

Yes he is and I was shocked that I read it. I was. This is what Richard Hooker wrote.

How on earth can anybody be knowledgeable about Richard Hooker unless that is an obscure quote somewhere. How could Alistair McGrath who is a fairly brilliant man. How could how could he not know this about Hooker's theology.

That that you could not be more clear that you are a Calvinist. If you mentioned any of those things that you listed you couldn't get beyond the first one and.

Be an Arminian or make Arminians make Arminians happy. It's inconceivable but you see unfortunately.

Somebody that you and I uphold as a hero of the faith in many ways somebody that we've both been blessed enormously by the late J .I. Packer. You have to be very careful. You have to be very careful about reading and uh embracing the contents of a book that he has endorsed because he endorsed a lot of different stuff some of it which is clearly heretical and just uh it makes you scratch your.

Head. Why he would attach his name to some of the things that he endorsed. I think we have to go to.

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We have Bruce from Hoover, Alabama. Chris and Roger, thank you for this dialogue. I respectfully submitted a statement point followed by a question that I'd like you all to comment on. Point. The apostate leftist Anglicans and the Roman papist Anglicans will never stop their destructive quests and bad ungodly works.

Question. Why don't real Anglicans just leave them both to burn down their pieces of the Anglican church? Why don't real Anglicans just rename their church and continue to worship 1662 prayer book, 39 articles?

Call it what you want. The 39 articles Christian church. The Cranmerian church of Jesus Christ. Church of reformed Anglo-Saxons. Let these two corrupt and destructive sects have the word Anglican to themselves.

We continue on with a name change. Let's see. We continue on with a name change. Best regards, Bruce from Hoover, Alabama. Well, obviously, you better not name it the church of reformed Anglo-Saxons since that's referring to an ethnic group and people might think you're a white supremacist organization.

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I'm sorry to interrupt you, but obviously that that is a bizarre. Well, I guess he probably.

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I have and I have. In fact, you know what I'd like you to do? I'd like you to.

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