Gavin says "This is the 1st … of 6 … sermons on The Catechism, the 1st 3 today on Annunciation Day, Saturday the 25th of March 2017; & this morning the 1st sermon is in its 1st part, an introduction to The Catechism; & in the 2nd part … a more detailed consideration of Articles 1 & 2 of the Apostles' Creed. … The Apostles' Creed, is named after, not written by, the Apostles, on whose Biblical teachings it is based; & given that we read in Acts 2:32 of how those in the early church 'continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine,' & given that this creed is based on the apostles' doctrine, it is aptly named after the apostles as, the Apostles' Creed. The Anglican Short Catechism of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is a … work in which the Christian Faith is explained through elucidation upon 5 great symbols of the faith, namely, The Apostles' Creed, Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, & holy sacraments of Baptism & Communion. The 1st part of it up to the 2 sacraments was composed by the man who from my Anglican Protestant Christian perspective is The Third Man of the Reformation … Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury … . In this series of 6 sermons … we will be using this Anglican Short Catechism as the model catechism … . But … other Protestant Christian Catechisms … will also be referred to in a secondary way … . E.g., in this 500th anniversary year of 2017 of the 1517 Reformation ignited by God under Martin Luther, the Catechism of The First Man of the Reformation, Martin Luther in Luther's Short Catechism, or the Catechism composed by the man who from my Reformed Protestant perspective is The Second Man of the Reformation, John Calvin, in Calvin's Catechism." |
