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    Name: Clint Humfrey
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    Tuesday, May 30, 2006

    Reformed Beards


    Before

    In Diarmid MacCulloch's biography of Thomas Cranmer he writes:

    It was a break with the past for a clergyman to abandon the clean-shaven appearance which was the norm for late medieval priesthood; with Luther providing the precedent, virtually all the continental clerical reformers had deliberately grown beards as a mark of their rejection of the old Church, and the signficance of the clerical beards as an agressive anti-Catholic gesture was well-recognized in mid-Tudor England. (p. 361)


    After

    The questions this statement raises are the following:
    1. Should Reformational men grow beards?
    2. Why is Luther always portrayed without a beard?
    3. If it isn't facial hair, then are there other external marks of a Reformational man? (eg. ESV Bible, Moleskine notebook, copious use of fountain pens, personal weblog, etc.)


    The Beard That Started It All

    posted by Clint at 5/30/2006

    Comments on "Reformed Beards"

     

    Blogger JLF said ... (8:25 AM) : 

    I was thinking this related more to those emergent types with the funny little soul-patches :)

     

    Blogger kerux said ... (10:07 AM) : 

    Post a recent picture of yourself and I will comment.

    I know how those cross-country trips go and it is unjust of you to invoke our reformation fathers as a defense against Christel's objections!

     

    Blogger Ian said ... (11:21 AM) : 

    Mwahahahahaha!!! Brilliant.
    And Julian and Paul's comments are likewise brilliant. You gotta love "emerging-soul-strips!"

     

    Blogger stauf46 said ... (2:21 PM) : 

    Beards are cool. I must confess that I don't have the courage to grow mine long, however.

    I think I know why we don't see pictures of Luther with a beard - it looks like he has a couple of young muskrats chewing on his cheeks.

     

    Blogger Clint said ... (5:54 AM) : 

    I am as yet beardless...a beard would collect too much dirt when I'm riding drag behind the cattle-herd (three mini-roundups in the last week!)

    Maybe I could grow a "soul-muskrat".

     

    Blogger stauf46 said ... (6:38 AM) : 

    Clint, it must be grand for you to be back in the saddle again!

     

    Anonymous Scott said ... (6:58 AM) : 

    I must say that this post has really got me to thinking--I have a beard, an ESV, and I took a quiz that said I was most like John Calvin.....

     

    Anonymous Ian Vaillancourt said ... (7:33 AM) : 

    Hey Clint,
    I'm glad to hear you are back and settling in. Know that I pray for you and Christel often, for God's blessing on you presently, and guidance and provision for the future. Go forward boldly.
    Ian V.

     

    Blogger pilgrim said ... (8:04 PM) : 

    Scott said...
    I must say that this post has really got me to thinking--I have a beard, an ESV, and I took a quiz that said I was most like John Calvin.....

    I have those except the quiz i took said I was John Knox.
    Beards are great for Prairie winters.

     

    Anonymous Odious Herodias said ... (6:27 PM) : 

    Could Michael Haykin be the answer to question 3 !?!

     

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