TheologyIs the Reformation Ever Finished?
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…
Journal Theology Matters Volume 22 · Issue 1 · Winter 2016 Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Protestant Reformation
The Print Journal
2016 Winter
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In this issue
Confessing the FaithSurveying Presbyterian Beliefs
The PCUSA's own panel survey on theological reflection turns up some good news and considerable confusion. Bush walks through the data carefully, including how the survey's own categories made a…
DiscipleshipThe Catechized Prodigal: When Covenant Children Lose Their Way
Proverbs uses contrast to teach: life or death, wisdom or folly, no comfortable middle. Hering brings the Proverbs' grammar of formation to bear on the painful experience of catechized children…
DiscipleshipIf I were a Church School Teacher Again
Bruce Metzger spent his career as one of America's foremost biblical scholars but began as a Sunday School superintendent. These late-career reflections on what he would do if he had…
TheologyLooking Back, Looking Forward: The Protestant Reformation
October 31, 1517 was meant to be a scholarly debate among theologians at the University of Wittenberg. McGlasson works back into the local controversy over indulgences, finds an early version…