Reformation History (395)
  1. The seventh episode of the History of The Reformation brings the Fellows to a challenging time in Lutheran history.
  2. This episode of the Thinking Fellows opens to the peasants revolt and the radical reform of Thomas Müntzer. To round out the show the Conversation moves to the Bondage of the Will and the begining of Luther’s family life.
  3. To be human is to be preoccupied with averting pain and despair. But despair gets a bad rap.
  4. In honor of the anniversary of Philip Melanchthon’s Birthday, the following is an excerpt from Meeting Melanchthon written by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2017).
  5. The history of the early Reformation in the New World is both a tale of pirates and the battle of catechisms.
  6. In 1521, the Pope issued an official decree known as bull against Luther. The Bull declared Luther’s writings as heresy and demanded he recant.
  7. The Thinking Fellows continue outlining the events of the Reformation by following Luther’s move from the monastery to the university.
  8. Such faith is faith alone. Even our Spirit-produced fruit is not to be trusted. Rather, faith rests entirely in Christ’s work for us.
  9. The Fellows begin a new series outlining the history of the Reformation. The first episode features a thorough description of the Middle Ages followed by the initial struggles of Luther.
  10. Advent is one big answer to the question of free will in matters of salvation. God is free. Our will is bound.
  11. The Pope Leo X used the psalm description of a boar uprooting grape vines in a vineyard as a metaphor for what the upstart German monk had been doing at that backwater university.
  12. Luther’s theology lets the believer in Christ dwell under the cerulean sky of God’s unchanging grace.
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