Ray Sutton

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Bishop Sutton at Church of the Holy Communion in North Dallas, Texas.

The Rt. Rev. Ray R. Sutton is Bishop Coadjutor in the Diocese of Mid America of the Reformed Episcopal Church as well as Rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in Dallas, Texas, professor of scripture and theology at Cranmer Theological House in Houston, Texas and headmaster of Bent Tree Episcopal School.[1].

He is currently head of the Ecumenical Relations Committee of the Anglican Church of North America.[2]

Early life

Sutton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and moved to Dallas at age thirteen.

Education

• Bachelor of Fine Arts [B.F.A.] - Southern Methodist University in (1972)
• Master of Theology [Th.M.] - Dallas Theological Seminary (1976)
• Doctor of Philosophy [Ph.D.] - Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, in association with Coventry University (1998)
• Doctor of Theology (hon.) - Central School of Religion
• Doctor of Divinity (hon.) - Cummins Theological Seminary

Career

Church of the Holy Communion in North Dallas, Texas. Seat of Bishop Ray Sutton.

Bishop Sutton served in parish ministry from 1976 until 1991. He was a co-pastor with James B. Jordan of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tyler, Texas, which was a prominent church in the Christian Reconstructionist movement. Other members included Gary North and David Chilton. The Church belonged to the Westminster Presbyterian Church of the Association of Reformation Churches in America. North praised Sutton for uncovering that Meredith G. Kline's five-point covenant model applied to the whole Bible, and that it applies to three covenant institutions of family, state and church.

Tyler, Texas also hosted the Institute for Christian Economics which published North, Gary DeMar and numerous others.

Sutton served as Dean and Associate Professor of New Testament at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia from 1991 until 1995; and Dean and Professor of Theology at Cranmer Theological House in Shreveport, Louisiana from 1995 until 2001.

Sutton was ordained a Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church in 1999, and arrived at the Church of the Holy Communion in 2001.

Works

That You May Prosper : Dominion by Covenant, The Institute for Christian Economics, (1987).

Bishop Sutton has authored several theology works:

• Signed, Sealed and Delivered: A Study of Holy Baptism, Classical Anglican Press, Houston, TX (2001). ISBN 1-893293-54-8
• Captains and Courts, a Biblical Defense of Episcopal Government.

• Second Chance: Biblical Principals of Divorce and Remarriage, Biblical Hope for the Divorced, Biblical Blueprint Series Vol. #10, The Institute for Christian Economics, (1988).

• That You May Prosper : Dominion by Covenant, The Institute for Christian Economics, (1987).
• Who Owns the Family? : God or the State? Biblical Blueprint Series Vol. #03, Dominion Press, Ft. Worth, TX, (1986).

• Ray Sutton, David Chilton, Gary DeMar, Victoria T. deVries, Michael Gilstrap, Power for Living, Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, (1983).

Articles

• Sutton, Ray R. "Covenantal Evil." Covenant Renewal 2 (1988) 4.

• Sutton, Ray R. "Oath and Symbol." Covenant Renewal 3 (1989) 4: 1-4.

• Sutton, Ray R. "Clothing and Calling." in The Reconstruction of the Church. Christianity and Civilization Vol 4. ed. James B. Jordan. Tyler, Texas: Geneva Ministries, (1985).

• Sutton, Ray R. "The Saturday Night Church and the Liturgical Nature of Man." in The Reconstruction of the Church. Christianity and Civilization Vol 4. ed. James B. Jordan. Tyler, Texas: Geneva Ministries, (1985).

• Ray R. Sutton, "The Church as a Shadow Government," Christianity and Civilization III: Tactics of Christian Resistance, Geneva Divinity School, (1983).

• Ray Sutton, "The Baptist Failure", Christianity & Civilization, James B. Jordan, ed., Geneva Divinity School, (1982).

Editor

• What is Anglicanism?, Latimer Press (2004), by Mark F.M. Clavier, co-edited by Dr. Ray Sutton and Dr. Peter C. Moore.

Personal life

Bishop Sutton is married to Susan Jean Schaerdel of Dallas.

They have seven children, Stephen, Seth, Sarah, Sam, Esther, Evelyn, and Austin. As well as three grandchildren, Gabriel, Daniel, and Hunter.