Des' Calvinist Love-In
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Oh good question. It's a complex relationship.
Today, conservative Anglicans, Lutherans, and Reformed types tend to bond over being among the first wave of Protestants.
Between the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the Restoration, the Anglican Church's application of Reformed theology ebbed and flowed. It went from Reformed-Influenced under Elizabeth, to not-so-Reformed under James I, to a mixture of extremely reformed and hardly Reformed at all during the Commonwealth era, and the same after the Restoration only the tables were turned.
Not very much has changed since in that regard.
Today, conservative Anglicans, Lutherans, and Reformed types tend to bond over being among the first wave of Protestants.
Between the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the Restoration, the Anglican Church's application of Reformed theology ebbed and flowed. It went from Reformed-Influenced under Elizabeth, to not-so-Reformed under James I, to a mixture of extremely reformed and hardly Reformed at all during the Commonwealth era, and the same after the Restoration only the tables were turned.
Not very much has changed since in that regard.
I have to go to sleep, so I will cover the doctrinal distinctives of Anglicanism later. 
But yes. People have a beef with TULIP and they let it cover the whole of Reformed theology. I find that rather unfair. It also leads people to a boatload of false assertions. Like Calvin being a cult leader who only talked about predestination
Reformed theology is built on recognizing God's sovereignty in authority in all things including the justification of man. Ardent contextual study of the Bible is its basis. To see it cheapened to something less is awful.
But yes. People have a beef with TULIP and they let it cover the whole of Reformed theology. I find that rather unfair. It also leads people to a boatload of false assertions. Like Calvin being a cult leader who only talked about predestination
Reformed theology is built on recognizing God's sovereignty in authority in all things including the justification of man. Ardent contextual study of the Bible is its basis. To see it cheapened to something less is awful.
I'm still trying to figure it out. I like aspects of every church I have ever gone to but I haven't completely agreed with everything in any single church.
The closest I have been to a perfect church would have to be a blend of a few different ones. If they would allow me to orchestrate it, it would be awesome.
I would let the really big non-denom church be in charge of assembling the musicians and instruments. I would let the Charismatics be in charge of song selection and worship. I would let the Lutherans be in charge of the sermons and communion.
I think I've been led to go to a Presbyterian church. Judging by some of the posters here who are presby it almost seems certain.
The closest I have been to a perfect church would have to be a blend of a few different ones. If they would allow me to orchestrate it, it would be awesome.
I would let the really big non-denom church be in charge of assembling the musicians and instruments. I would let the Charismatics be in charge of song selection and worship. I would let the Lutherans be in charge of the sermons and communion.
I think I've been led to go to a Presbyterian church. Judging by some of the posters here who are presby it almost seems certain.
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Mom's little ditty as she commanded me to take Latin as my foreign language in high school:
Latin is a dead language,
As dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans.
Now it's killing me.
All these years later and I can't remember anything beyond how to conjugate "was," How to say "it is an island," and Julius Caesar's famous quip...
Until I see a word I don't know but can separate the prefix, suffix, and base to see nothing but Latin words.
(And Notmyown can tell you, it's no guarantee I remember it correctly. lol)
Latin is a dead language,
As dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans.
Now it's killing me.
All these years later and I can't remember anything beyond how to conjugate "was," How to say "it is an island," and Julius Caesar's famous quip...
Until I see a word I don't know but can separate the prefix, suffix, and base to see nothing but Latin words.
(And Notmyown can tell you, it's no guarantee I remember it correctly. lol)