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Alexander Blair Cain

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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A brown cover of a book by Jeff Grupp with medieval images of knights battling whose title is
Hyper-Calvinist Universal Salvation: The Systematic Theology of the Unchosen Saved by the Lake of Consuming Fire at the Eschaton
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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
You would’ve been safe with me lol
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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Slowly making our way back to pre-COVID attendance ⚓️
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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Equal parts Maximus and Karl
The results of an online theologian quiz that show Maximus the Confessor and Karl Barth as the top results
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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
From Packer’s book The Heritage of Anglican Theology. As a firm Calvinist, he disagrees, but also wants to respect genuine godly motives.
The first page of a chapter titled “The Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism”

It says:
We are approaching the stage in the evolution of Anglican theology when theologians began to recognize that England is only part of the world and to think in terms that are essentially global. It took Anglican theologians, I may say, quite some time to get abreast of that insight. But the evangelicals began to found missionary societies, and out of transcultural mission work came, increasingly, an awareness of the need to express Anglicanism in global terms.
In this chapter, however, we are still in England, because we are only at the beginning of the nineteenth century, which is before any sort of creative or critical theology was being done by Anglicans outside England.
We have come to the Oxford movement, whose story is set in the milieu of the slow movement of church reform in England. My mission in this chapter is to make sure you are as sympathetic to leaders of the Oxford movement and the Catholic revival within Anglicanism as you are to the evangelicals. I do not mean by "sympathetic" that you should agree with them as robustly. But they were men thoroughly sincere in seeking to please God, serve God, and proclaim what they took to be the truth of God.
If you read evangelical writers like J. C. Ryle--good, great, and deservedly famous as he is—you will find that because Ryle is convinced
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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Late to this but lowkey pleased with the results 🕯️
Results of an Anglican quiz that say “Your Title Is: A Biblically Literate Puseyite”
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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I’m not up on my Episcopal history, but I think this means I’m conflicted. 📕 www.prolegopress.com/bishops-quiz
Which 19th Century Bishop Are You?
It's a Tie!
You tied between 3 bishops. Read their profiles and choose the one that best fits you:William White
Pennsylvania, Presiding Bishop
Builder of consensus and "Americanization": led the 1785/1789 Prayer Book revisions for a republic, then presided over consecrations that knit a national church; a moderating, Father-quoting latitudinarian who kept Scripture central.John Henry Hopkins
Vermont
Beauty-loving, Reformation-loyal polymath: wrote on Gothic architecture, composed church music, defended broad tent within the Formularies (Scripture supreme), and helped modernize episcopal trial procedures.John Henry Hobart
New York
High-Church powerhouse: founded and shaped the General Seminary; grew clergy dramatically; pushed visible unity (baptismal grace, apostolic order) and resisted generic ecumenism; evangelized the Oneida.
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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
been on my list to read for awhile
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Alexander Blair Cain @abcain.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
An appropriate beverage after grading 40 covenant theology papers
Whiskey glass with Covenant Seminary’s logo etched into it.
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