Tuesday, March 21, 2006

The Anglican Debt to Father Luther

http://www.accipepotestatem.com/

If anyone is agnostic about the historical connexion between the Church of England and the Lutheran Reformation, follow the above link to text entitled The Lutheran Origin of the Anglican Ordinal by Dr EC Messenger.

As the Bishop who ordained me to the Priesthood with that same Ordinal once quipped, 'If an Anglican Priest says he utterly hates the Reformation, ask him about his wife!'

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