The Place: Leipzig, Germany The Date: June 24 – July 16, 1519 Luther’s Opponent: Dr. John Eck of Ingolstadt, a scholastic Roman Catholic prelate The Main Issue: The supremacy of the pope over the Catholic Church Dr. Eck’s Contention: “There is in the church of God a primacy that comes…
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Martin Luther has been called, along with the Apostle Paul and Augustine, one of the three greatest theologians of the Christian church. Luther, however, never meant to be a great theologian. He certainly never meant to shake the foundations of Europe as he did. Martin Luther was originally concerned only…
Editor’s note: Next year being 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s protest at Wittenberg. We want to celebrate God’s mighty acts in the German Reformation and thought that this article, with part one this issue, and God willing, part two next issue, will serve as an introduction…
On September 26–27, 2015, the pope attended a great gathering in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The news media predicted that two million people would come together for the Mass on Sunday, the 27th. Not all those that met with the pope were Roman Catholic. The Catholic Herald quoted Archbishop Chaput as stating,…
After the long-fought War for Independence, the infant American republic began to waver spiritually. Deism and rationalism, especially as they were expressed in the writings of Thomas Paine and Voltaire, captured the minds of many young intellectuals. Episcopal Bishop Mead of Virginia at the time said, “I have come to…
The First Great Awakening, was an evangelical movement that swept America in the 1730s and 1740s. Part of a much broader revival movement taking place simultaneously on the other side of the Atlantic (most notably in England, Scotland, and Germany), this “Awakening” impacted the American colonies, particularly New England, and…