I begin every semester in my Church and Sacraments course with the following quotation from Martin Luther, which Karl Barth used “In Place of a Foreword” to introduce Church Dogmatics, volume 1.2. The quotation says so much about the relationship between Christology and ecclesiology in Protestant dogmatics. And it offers so much by way of encouragement […]
Lent me your ears
In 1528 Catholic and Protestant theologians met in the city of Berne to debate a series of topics associated with the burgeoning Reform movement in Switzerland. “The Ten Theses of Berne” focused on issues such as the nature of the Lord’s Supper, prayers to the saints, purgatory, the veneration of images, and clerical marriage. As […]
The Jerusalem Council
by Scott R. Swain The book of Acts tells the story of the gospel’s progress under the reign of Christ through the ministry of His apostles. Acts is not, however, a story of progress without conflict. The story of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 recounts one of the conflicts faced by the early church and […]
