Gunpowdera miniseries created by ronan bennett, kit harrington, and daniel westbbc one Though its preeminence has been challenged in recent years, the Gunpowder Plot remains the most famous terrorist conspiracy in England’s history. A group of English Catholics, disillusioned by years of punitive . . . . Continue Reading »
The 500th anniversary of the Reformation sent me back to Luther and his debate with Erasmus. The two were among the most widely read authors in sixteenth-century Europe. In the early 1520s, they exchanged dueling treatises on free will. They raised recondite theological questions of biblical . . . . Continue Reading »
Protestantism will be purified only insofar as she is willing to contend conservatively for the faith once delivered to the saints. Continue Reading »
Protestantism will not reach its end until the Reformation’s divisions end. Continue Reading »
The confessional Lutheran church today may be poor and weak, but it stands as the true heir of the Reformation. Continue Reading »
The First Things Podcast, Episode 34. Featuring: Carl Trueman on Martin Luther.
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It all did start with the ninety-five theses, in a sense. Luther probably did not actually nail them to the church door—at least no one at the time tells us so. And if he did, it was not in anger or protest against the church. He was trying to arrange an academic discussion, and evidently . . . . Continue Reading »
All Christians can be shocked by the vitriol of sixteenth-century theological disagreements, but no one should be shocked by Luther’s anger over corruption, abuse, and injustice. Continue Reading »
Both catastrophist and triumphalist narratives of the Reformation, however sophisticated and nuanced the idiom, always oversimplify. Continue Reading »
True Christian reform always involves bringing into the present something the Church has laid aside or misplaced. Continue Reading »
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