Frankly, I'll bet he, an evangelist preacher, curses the day he ever thought to write about the cross. He thus joins the ranks of people likeBruce Speiss, Jason Beduhn, andJoel Engardiowho write something that squares with JW beliefs, and spend the rest of their days on earth denying t...
For example, Tim Keller is a Calvinist but he defends his belief in eternal hell with arguments that are in direct contradiction with his Reformed beliefs. This is extremely suspect and we are calling him on it. But if you read at any length on this site you will learn that we respect ...
The conventional wisdom holds it to be in free fall, especially in WesternEurope. (Bruce 2002) This is undoubtedly correct for Catholic Europe, while Protestant Europe already has low levels of religious practice. Yet closer scrutiny reveals an increasingly lively and demographically growing Christian...
Comparing Religious Beliefs and Strategies in Rural Ministry among Catholic and Evangelical Anglican ClergyThis study explores the way in which rural parishes served by Anglican clergy shaped in the Evangelical tradition and rural parishes served by clergy shaped in the Catholic tradition may experience...
Often my Protestant friends don’t realize how many “Catholic” beliefs and practices were held by the fathers of the Reformation. Not because they were Catholic beliefs, but rather because they were the historic, orthodox, andScripturalpositions of Christians from the time of Christ forward! For...
简介 Great for on-going apologetic use and ease of access to confessional materials to explain elaborate of doctrines and beliefs and assist life. Creeds with support added The most accurate and clear exposition of what the Bible teaches. The Book of Concord was an attempt to return (not crea...
For Irenaeus, “catholic” tradition would never introduce new beliefs. He also wrote that the truth is “clearly and unambiguously in express terms set forth in the Sacred Scriptures” (i.e., the perspicacity of Scripture, cf. Against Heresies 2.27.1). Yet, Irenaeus insisted that ...
while the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America falls on the modernist side. All Lutherans uphold the historic beliefs of Christianity, such as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ and the resurrection. They also honor the distinct theology of Martin Luther, for whom the movement was named. Thes...
Catholic historians had an interest in showing how much reform occurred before and apart from the activities of the Protestant reformers of the 16th century. Protestant historians, on the other hand, portrayed the late medieval church in the most negative terms to show the necessity of the ...