Reformation The Reformation Context (Part 4) 16 May 201823 May 2018 Our interpretation of the Protestant Reformation should emerge from an understanding of the late Medieval period. Thinking carefully about the theological landscape on the eve of Reform movements will help…
Reformation The Reformation Context (Part 3) 10 May 201810 May 2018 The theological landscape prior to the Reformation was going through great upheaval, debate, and shift. Thomas Aquinas had been a major theological influence, but his thought was being dramatically challenged…
Reformation The Reformation Context (Part 2) 18 Apr 2018 "If there is one thing that can be called a genuine breakthrough in the last half-century of Reformation studies, it would be the 'discovery' that the Reformation had a background,"…
Reformation The Reformation Context (Part 1) 4 Apr 2018 I once heard church historian Timothy George describe the setting of the Reformation with the immortal words of Charles Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst…
Reformation Interpreting the Reformation: The Role of Theology 28 Mar 2018 Understanding the motivations of historical people is never easy. It's not easy because, of course, understanding motives of anyone (even ourselves) is complex. It's also difficult because the passage of…
Reformation Interpreting the Reformation 22 Mar 2018 Why did the Reformation happen? This is not a simple question to answer. Of course we could simply state that it happened because God wanted it to happen, and that…
Reformation Studying the Reformation 14 Mar 2018 Let's call it fashionably late. I know that last year was the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, and yet I am spending this year studying the subject afresh. My…
Reformation The Five Solas: God’s Glory Alone 8 Nov 2017 If the Roman Catholic Church of Martin Luther's day would have outright denied the concepts of scripture alone and faith alone, it did not deny the concept that glory belonged…
Reformation The Five Solas: Christ Alone 3 Nov 2017 "Who do people say that the Son of Man is" (Mat. 16:13)? This question remains as pertinent a one today as it was when Jesus asked it of the disciples.…
Reformation The Five Solas: Faith Alone 27 Oct 201729 Oct 2017 It has been called the "main hinge upon which religion turns" (Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion. 3.11.1). The doctrine of justification by faith alone is easily the most significant…
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