Recent content by Martin Marprelate

Thank you for reminding me of this resource. I have found it on line and have started reading - but goodness! Doesn't he woffle?! I know of no historians who have charged the Waldenses with Gnosticism. My issues are twofold: whether the Albigenses were orthodox in their beliefs, and whether...

The problem is that I can find no mention of baptism, one way or the other, in the writings of Wycliffe, nor of his followers such as John Purvey, John Corringham, William Swynderby, Walter Brut, John Aston, or even Nicholas Hereford, who turned traitor. If you have information that any of these...

The links still do not come up. What I get is this: The item you have requested had an error: Item cannot be found. which prevents us from displaying this page. Items may be taken down for various reasons, including by decision of the uploader or due to a violation of our Terms of Use.

@Anthony Pritchard I tried to send this to you on a P.M. as the conversation is getting a bit technical, but I found I was unable to do that. I'm not sure if you will be able to access this link...

@Anthony Pritchard Thank you for sending the links, but I don't seem to be able to access them except for the Patristic ones which are not the ones that I'm concerned about. I will continue my own researches and post any findings that I make.

The simplest way to understand the meaning of a word is to study its usage in as many texts as possible. Fortunately we are saved the very hard work that such a study would involve because a 19th Century scholar, T.J.Conant, in his book, The meaning and use of Baptizein (Wakeman Classic...

I did not need you to tell me that Paulicians , Bogomils and others were rebaptizers. That is very well known, but it is not the point at issue. The question is whether these people were orthodox in their theology. The Petrobusians and Waldenses seem to have been so; the others, not so much...

Well, @Anthony Pritchard, We shall have to agree to disagree. I have seen nothing on line to suggest that Nick Needham or James Attebury were either liars or so ignorant that they didn't look up documents before going to press. If you had come up with anything in writing to prove your case, I...

Well what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Almost none of the original Gnostic writings survive. That is precisely why the only descriptions we have come from hostile ECF writers. If you are going to reject the writers who oppose the Paulicians, to be consistent you must also...

You have switched from singular ("Abraham believed God etc.") to plural ("They did continue...."). I was speaking of no one else but Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Genesis 26:4-5; 28:13-14), certainly not of the bulk of national Israel, which certainly appears to have been devoid of grace (e.g...

Well, so far as I can discover, there are no primary sources for the Paulicians as none of their writings survive. If you have discovered some, please write them out here so that we can see them, but if not, please stop pretending to have knowledge that you do not, which is, after all, the...

Dr. Needham is lecturer in Church History at Highland Theological College, Scotland. Before that he taught Systematic Theology at the Scottish Baptist College in Glasgow. I suggest you read at least some of his work before you patronize him.

:rolleyes: Yes, I do know this. I was writing of Lollards in England, not Church Fathers. I'm sorry if I was not clear. I will be interested if you can point me to anything of this sort available on line. I have read various articles by Anne Hudson and Margaret Aston, but again, nothing...

You seem to be obsessed with Luther; I wonder why.

People may be interested to read of the "Twelve Concusions" of the Lollards: In 1395, the followers of Wycliffe felt confident enough to publish their ‘Twelve Conclusions.’ These were presented to Parliament and attached to the doors of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. These are...