Believing Catholics and Protestants alike sit by the rivers of New Babylon, paradoxically linked in a love for Jesus Christ, but wrapped in a hundred forms of entangling captivity. Continue Reading »
The Reforming Catholic Confession acknowledges the many divisions within Protestantism and calls for a return to its catholic roots. Continue Reading »
Legendary liberal Protestant Harry Emerson Fosdick construes the Reformation in a way that resonates with those who think that individualism is at the heart of the Protestant faith. Continue Reading »
The pope’s historical formulations—about Luther and Jesuit missions—makes this historian wince. Continue Reading »
Neither the Bible, nor church history, nor Christian experience indicates that a one-size-fits-all crisis conversion is necessary. Why is this claim the sort of thing that scares American Evangelicals? Continue Reading »
Early modern Europeans freed themselves from the burdens of a corrupted medieval world by laughing at it. Continue Reading »
Protestantism was the first religious movement to take full advantage of the new powers of the press. Continue Reading »
Lutherans should not fall for depictions of Luther as one whose self-conflict gives rise to blasphemy. Continue Reading »
This year marks the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. It is a year of celebration, because the Reformers accomplished what they claimed: They stripped away idolatries that had encrusted and obscured the gospel of grace, and they reformed the Church’s worship and ministry to . . . . Continue Reading »
The preaching of the Gospel as a sacramental event is at the heart of Reformation theology. Preaching is also at the heart of Reformation faith—preaching as an indispensable means of grace and a sure sign of the true church. Continue Reading »
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