Having recently passed the 499th anniversary of Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, there is great anticipation of the 500th celebration of this momentous event and the Reformation that it catalyzed. We typically…
While preparing talks for a forthcoming Reformation Conference, I happened across Heiko Oberman’s outstanding 1961 Theology Today lecture, “Preaching and the Word in the Reformation,” in which he set down what he believed to have been the three most important…
Erasmus and the Greek New Testament This year marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of Erasmus’ Greek New Testament. It was a landmark publication for biblical studies, though we may tend to forget its role in the Reformation. 2016…
Use of the “five solas” — sola scriptura, sola gratia, sola fide, solo Christo, and soli Deo gloria — to collectively summarize Reformation theology is apparently a twentieth-century thing. The reformers, to be sure, used these phrases (or very similar ones) to…
As we commemorate the 497th anniversary of the Reformation this week, those who stop to think about the anniversary (too few of us, no doubt) will probably either celebrate it as the birthday of the Protestant churches, or lament it…
Editors’ Note: This is the third and final installment of this series. You can access part one here and part two here. Part III: Church Development, Presbyterianism, & China The need for church development, so acute in China, exists…
Editors’ Note: This is the third and final installment of this series. You can access part one here and part two here. Part III: Church Development, Presbyterianism, & China The need for church development, so acute in China, exists…
Part I: The Chinese Context “[M]ore people go to church on Sunday in China than in the whole of Europe.”(1) China is now home to more evangelical believers than any other nation, and the church continues to grow and…
Part I: The Chinese Context “[M]ore people go to church on Sunday in China than in the whole of Europe.”(1) China is now home to more evangelical believers than any other nation, and the church continues to grow and…
