Retrieve
Jesus’ Greatest Disciple
I doubt there will be a sudden run on “What Would Mary Do?” bracelets after this essay is published, but I’m going to make the claim anyway: The Mother of our Lord is a wonderful yet far too often underappreciated model of discipleship among today’s heirs of the Reformation. […]
The Church’s Original Sin
The relationship between church and state has generated questions from the start. Although the basic biblical principles seem straightforward, their applications to specific situations have frequently been muddled and perplexing. […]
Bible on the Bosporus: Reformation Europe and the Orthodox Church
In 1638, Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, was arrested and convicted of treason by high-ranking Ottoman officials. Grimly, he died at the hands of the Janissaries, the elite infantry units that formed the Sultan’s army, who strangled him and pitched his body into […]
Baptism and the Great Flood Prayer
In 1523, Martin Luther translated the baptismal form out of Latin and into German. He presented the product of his labor, the *Baptismal Booklet *(or *Taufbüchlein*), for use in the church. Suddenly, Reformation liturgy became intelligible. […]
The New Prophecy: Echoes of Montanism in the New Apostolic Reformation
In 1994, a Fuller Seminary professor studying church growth coined a term for a movement he believed encapsulated the most radical development in church history since the Reformation. In his telling, this movement reached further back than the Reformation. Its roots lay in the age of the New Testament apostles […]
