Shall We Still Protest

Can We Be Confessional and Catholic?

British theologian John Webster has noted, “To confess is not to reflect, even to reflect theologically; it is to herald the gospel…. To confess is to testify-and to testify with a bit of noise.” It would be surprising if such noisy testifying did not at times lead to unrest and even division within the churches […]

A Brief History of the Papacy

Protestant opinions of the papacy have taken many forms throughout the ages, ranging from confessional anathemas to the modern proponents of “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” (ECT). One of the reasons for the wide variety of views is often a lack of awareness of how the papacy has acquired its current form. At the commencement of […]

A Reformed Dream

In North America today we have many confessionally Reformed denominations: for example, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Free Reformed Churches, Korean-American Presbyterian Church, Netherlands Reformed Churches, Orthodox Christian Reformed Churches, Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church in America, Protestant Reformed Churches, Reformed Church of the United States, Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, United Reformed Churches. Each […]

Turning Romeward? Not an Option

I was struck by an editorial in the Frankfurt (Germany) newspaper, which observed that the election of Cardinal Ratzinger to be the new pope was not a threat to Germany, a country that voted for the Reformation, even though Benedict XVI represents “the Counter-Reformation in person.” First, I enjoyed the admission from a secular European […]

Ten Theses for Roman Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue

1. We affirm that Evangelicals and Roman Catholics commonly confess the faith of the ecumenical creeds. We deny that this catholic consensus is sufficient for recognizing the Roman church as a true visible expression of Christ’s body. 2. We affirm that the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone […]

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