A Rose in Bloom: Luther’s Reformation at 500
by Mathew BlockThe confessional Lutheran church today may be poor and weak, but it stands as the true heir of the Reformation. Continue Reading »
The confessional Lutheran church today may be poor and weak, but it stands as the true heir of the Reformation. Continue Reading »
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 »
The Luther of Eric Metaxas's biography closely resembles the struggling young evangelicals Metaxas aims to inspire. Continue Reading »
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 pope’s historical formulations—about Luther and Jesuit missions—makes this historian wince. 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 »
In the secular world, Luther has come to stand for the overthrow of traditional authority in favor of individual subjectivity. 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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