Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Friday, May 23, 2014

23 May 1533 AD: "Annulment" or "Divorce" of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon?


23 May 1533 A.D.  Date of “Annulment” or “Divorce” of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon


23 May 1533 A.D. Henry VIII's Marital "Divorce" or "Annulment"--depends on the point of view.

We'll treat the story when 9 August 1529 arrives.

Henry’s marriage Catherine: June 11, 1509. It lasted until May 23, 1533. They were married (or living in historic fornication) 23 years, 11 months, 19 days

Annulled?  We call it the “divorce that never was.”

Ann Boleyn and others were adulteresses and Henry was a serial adulterer with a hardened heart.  Was he a reprobate from eternity past?  Rev. 22 emphatically disclaims a place to fornicators as does 1 Cor. 6.9.  We’ll have to await the Final Judgment. 

Switching the subject a bit.

Disagree with Henry VIII?  Annulled? We call it the “divorce that never was.”

Ann Boleyn and the others were adulteresses and Henry was a serial adulterer with a hardened heart. Was he a reprobate from eternity past? Rev. 22 emphatically disclaims a place to fornicators as does 1 Cor 6.9? We'll have to await the final judgment.

Annulled? We call it the “divorce that never was.”

Ann Boleyn and the others were adulteresses and Henry was a serial adulterer with a hardened heart. Was he a reprobate from eternity past? Rev. 22 emphatically disclaims a place to fornicators as does 1 Cor 6.9? We'll have to await the final judgment.

Annulled? We call it the “divorce that never was.”

Ann Boleyn and the others were adulteresses and Henry was a serial adulterer with a hardened heart. Was he a reprobate from eternity past? Rev. 22 emphatically disclaims a place to fornicators as does 1 Cor 6.9? We'll have to await the final judgment.

Poor John Fisher, a virulent anti-Lutheran who did Henry's heavy academic lifting against Lutheranism in England, but a very faithful subject to Henry VIII..."off with his head." We still have yet to get a few books by the old Anglo-Italian Cambridge don...John Fisher. Fisher hated Luther as did Henry. Fisher lost his head. Catherine mercifully survived, but Ann Boleyn..."off with her head too."



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