What could be better on a Friday than Protestant Anglican theology mixing with album titles from a variety of music genres? As you may or may not know, the majority of contributors on this site are of the Low Church Protestant Anglican/Episcopalian variety. And we have the 39 Articles of Religion on our side!
Articles 10 through 12 are the heart of the 39 Articles and they are the reason Anglicans are clearly positioned among the Protestant church bodies of the world. They confess the bondage of the will (Article 10), justification by grace alone through faith alone on account of Christ’s righteousness alone (Article 11), and Christian love as a fruit which is born out of justification (Article 12). So, for the next three days, each of these distinctive articles will be showcased along with some album titles that (I think) help describe them. So, neither Oxford Movement, nor New Perspective, nor Emergent, nor Joint Declaration on Justification shall keep these preachers of the Gospel from giving you the Comfortable Words.
So, let’s begin…
X. Of Free-Will.
The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith; and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
1) Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven – Godspeed You Black Emperor
2) Exile on Main Street – Rolling Stones
3) Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
4) Mama Tried – Merle Haggard
5) Quadrophenia – The Who
6) We’re Only In It For the Money – Frank Zappa
7) Blood on the Tracks – Dylan
8) Did I Shave My Legs For This? – Deana Carter
9) Alas, I Cannot Swim – Laura Marling
10) Darling, You Know I Wouldn’t Lie – Conway Twitty
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15 responses to “The Distinctives, Part I”
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So, neither Oxford Movement, nor New Perspective, nor Emergent, nor Joint Declaration on Justification shall keep these preachers of the Gospel from giving you the Comfortable Words
love it. . .
amen and amen…WAIT…does that mean I am agreeing with JDK ???
Yeah, I'm with Jady and Michael — that riff on Romans 8 was totally sweet.
i like this!!
Dave, this is so cool. The Smoking Popes have not one but two albums that might fit the description, Born To Quit and Destination Failure. More soon…
Yeah, I would LOVE to hear more contributions!
does that mean I am agreeing with JDK ???
haha–don't tell anyone, I'm trying to keep my street cred:)
This is a brilliant post and I wonder if it will find its way onto Titusonenine! Ha.Ha.Ha.Ha.
Bread and butter! Will you be hitting on number 9 too? I can't make any sense of the part where it talks about sin "persist(ing) yea in them that are regenerate." Surely not! 😉
Thanks Dave!
You need a footnote to Article X explaining that "preventing" is used with an archaic meaning: here it actually means "enabling".
Bloody marvelous–Pete Entwistle looking totally indifferent as usual.
Thanks for the clip.
Yeah, what was it with Entwistle? He never looked like he gave a damn. But he was an incredible bassist.
I just found out that reading this page is more pleasant on an iPad than on my iPhone. duh. lol. Anyway, you challenged me with this post. Thanks.
This is a message to the author. I don’t know if this would help but I could share this material to my blog readers. I’m out of University in a couple weeks and have plenty of time this summer. Please let me know if its okay to link to this. Thanks.
That would be quite alright. Thanks!