Mary had lived her forty years in the religious movement called Puritan, so-called by their peers. Puritans professed to lead a life of purity, a life of pure thoughts, a life dedicated to finishing what theProtestant Reformationhad started...
“I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen” (Apostles’ Creed [A.D. 360 version, the first to include the term “Catholic”]). Council of Constantinople I “I...
He teaches that Our Lord may not be the Messiah; that the Old Covenant is valid; that Jews and others can be saved without believing in Christ; that schismatics and Protestants don’t need conversion; that non-Catholics are not bound to accept Vatican I; that Protestant Monasteries should ...
Sir Thomas Cranmer became the Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry VIII died and his son Edward became King and officially established Protestantism in England. When Edward died at the age of 15, a “tug of war” between Protestantism and Catholicism ensued. Lady Jane Gray, a Protestant claimed the ...
At the Christian university I attended, all students were required to take the course, Philosophy and Christian Thought. One of our textbooks (a very thick one!) was titled,The Protestant Faith. And though the differences between denominations were certainly laid out, I was struck by how much...
You’ve attempted to combine the two categories to show that if imputation is flawed, then so also is the Protestant understanding of justification. This is not true, however, which falsifies your argument against the entirety of Protestantism. 9 Uncategorized Robert Gundry on ‘Pervasive ...
(1689) declared that the monarch must be Protestant and the Act of Settlement (1701) required that he or she be a member of the Church of England. Some of the clergy, however, including Sancroft, refused to swear allegiance to William and Mary and therefore lost their positions (seenon...
Confessio Augustana prepared by Melanchthon for the 1530 Diet of Augsburg as a statement of the Protestant faith as held by the German Reformers, it became effectively the creed of the Lutheran Church. Google Scholar Color ... viridis alimentationis proprius est — This passage seems to conflic...
The Apostles’ Creed (very early church) and the Nicean Creed (325, 381 CE) have nothing that seems objectionable to Latter-day Saint belief. The Athanasian Creed (500 CE) was the first to introduce the current Catholic and Protestant version of the Trinity, which clearly is different from ...
By the 16th century, it was clear that things had gotten out of hand. The focus had clearly shifted from Jesus and the church was in great need of reform. That is why the Protestant Reformers started to object to all this focus on saints. In the devotion of common people, saints were...