Biblical · Reformed · Evangelical · Thought-Provoking
Sixteenth-century Reformers worked in a vacuum where ancient heresies clamored for reconsideration. Finch shows how Calvin held to Nicene and Chalcedonian Christology even while insisting on sola scriptura, and what his way of speaking carefully about Jesus has to teach a church facing similar pressures today.
TheologyA Reformation Day sermon on Ephesians 2:8-9 that opens with the surprisingly theological politics of tipping. McKechnie uses the everyday transaction to set up the very different logic of grace, and Luther's recovery of it after centuries of religious tipping had buried the gospel.
Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda gets translated as 'the church reformed, always reforming,' but the original Latin has more bite than that. Bush traces the saying's actual provenance and argues the Reformed tradition's understanding of reform is more disciplined, and more demanding, than the slogan suggests.
Sola Scriptura, Solus Christus, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Soli Deo Gloria: the five Solas were the Reformers' refusal to compromise. Poteet examines what's been lost when contemporary liberalism quietly trims them, and how the church might restore the lines the Reformers thought load-bearing.
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