Catholics are Adopting a Lutheran Perspective on Martin Luther. They Shouldn't.

by Christopher Jackson

Catholics should resist importing from today's Lutherans a view of Luther that Luther himself would not have recognized. Continue Reading »

22 Jul 2016

The Reformation, a Tragic Necessity

by Timothy George

The tragic side of the Reformation is obvious to those who care deeply about the unity of the church and who feel keenly the dys-evangelical impact of a fractured Christian community and its muted witness in our world today. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2016

Erasmus Before the Storm

by Timothy George

Five hundred years ago this year, in February and March of 1516, a Swiss-German printer in Basel named Johann Froben published a volume of some 1,000 pages titled Novum Instrumentum Omne, “the whole New Testament.” This was the first officially published edition of the Greek New Testament, and . . . . Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2016

Reformer's Life

by Risto Saarinen

Martin Luther: Visionary Reformerby scott h. hendrixyale, 368 pages, $35 Luther on the Christian Life: Cross and Freedom by carl r. trueman crossway, 224 pages, $17.99 F rom the European perspective, American history looks like a laboratory experiment on the impact of the Reformation. We see in the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2016

Trashing Luther

by Russell E. Saltzman

Theological hobbyists of a hyper-Catholic sort continue to misconstrue Luther’s “errors.” Oh, I hardly think he was error-free, but (having recently been one) I know Lutherans who pretty much think he was essentially infallible. But I also know Catholics (me having recently become one) who . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Sep 2015

Luther Reading Challenge

by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

In 2009, my colleague Theodor Dieter and I started teaching a two-week course every November on Luther’s theology, for Lutheran pastors from all over the world, in no less venerable a location than Wittenberg itself. We approached the first year with post-Christendom and post-colonial qualms. Did Luther have anything to say to people anymore? Was it pure anachronistic antiquarianism on our part still to love him? Did we have any business inflicting Luther on Africans struggling with malaria and tremendous political violence, or on Asians negotiating a level of religious plurality unimaginable to North Atlantic Christians like ourselves? Continue Reading »

7 Apr 2015

The Reformation at Five Hundred

by Thomas Albert Howard and Mark A. Noll

On October 25, many churches will once again observe “Reformation Sunday,” commemorating the day in 1517 when Martin Luther is said to have nailed his Ninety-Five Theses concerning theological reform on the door of the Castle church in Wittenberg, Saxony. This event continues to be regarded as . . . . Continue Reading »

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