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Carl Trueman on the Meaning of Sola Scriptura

June 12, 2024 by John Fonville

Carl Trueman clarifies a common misconception that is popular among Evangelicals concerning the Protestant Reformation doctrine of sola scriptura....

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Prayer Book Statements About Regeneration

July 26, 2023 by John Fonville

J.C. Ryle answers the common arguments in favor of “Baptismal Regeneration,” which are based on the Baptismal Service of the Prayer-book. ...

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The Sacraments as Visible Words

July 14, 2023 by John Fonville

J.V. Fesko on the sacraments as visible words- a visible proclamation of the gospel....

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The Word of God: The Chief Means of Grace

July 13, 2023 by John Fonville

J.V. Fesko on the Word of God as the chief means of grace. ...

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The Death of Christ: The Only True Purgatory

July 7, 2023 by John Fonville

Martin Davie explains from the homily, ‘Of Prayer’ in the Second Book of Homilies, how the English Reformers taught that the only true purgatory is the death of Christ and no other purgation is either necessary or possible....

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Why Use Written Prayers?

May 15, 2023 by John Fonville

Why Use Written Prayers?- Why does your church use prewritten prayers in your service? Isn't this a dry, rote, unthinking, way for the church to pray and worship? Don't pre-written prayers stifle the Spirit and hinder freedom and promote mechanical, vain repetition? Aren't spontaneous prayers more genuine and heartfelt than prewritten prayers? ...

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Martin Luther on How to Read the Gospels (Scripture)

May 5, 2023 by John Fonville

This writing of Martin Luther is from the introduction to his “Postils” (a group of model sermons which he wrote while at the Wartburg Castle). This brief foreword is full of comfort and good news. In it, Luther sets forth insightful instruction on how to read the Gospels (and the entirety of Scripture- the OT and NT)....

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Martin Luther and how Evangelicalism Departed from its Reformation Roots

August 25, 2022 by John Fonville

My argument is this: By the year 1700, Protestant Christianity had begun developing significantly new practices and understandings of the Christian faith that focused upon Christian renewal, conversion, new birth and the coming millennial kingdom. These new practices and understandings were a dramatic departure not only from Roman Catholic Christianity, but also from the original Reformation convictions of Martin Luther and John Calvin some one hundred and fifty years earlier. Evangelical Christianity, of the free church variety especially, is the contemporary expression of this third form of Christianity. Probably most Evangelicals are unaware that their Christian experience and piety are far removed from Reformation Protestant beginnings. Evangelicals would do well to recover their lost heritage....

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Martin Luther's Primary Concern in Liturgical Reformation

August 20, 2022 by John Fonville

Martin Luther's primary concern when constructing the German mass and order of the liturgy in 1526 was that the gospel be proclaimed for the people in their context....

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Worthy Reception of the Lord's Supper

July 28, 2022 by John Fonville

Martin Luther on the worthy reception of the Lord's Supper....

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Justified by Faith Only: A Reformation Anglican Critique of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

November 4, 2025 by John Fonville | Category: Anglican Formularies | Tags: grace, gospel, justification, sola fide, sola scriptura, sacraments, Salvation, Authority, Reformation, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone, Roman Catholic Church, purgatory, imputed righteousness, scripture, Anglican, Reformed confession, Thirty-Nine Articles, Reformation Anglicanism, theology, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Marian doctrines, invocation of saints, relics, images, Adoration, indulgences, pardons, The Center for Reformation Anglicanism

Article 11 Of The Justification of Man

This article contrasts the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on justification with the Reformation Anglican doctrine confessed in the Thirty-Nine Articles. Whereas the Catechism presents justification as an infused, cooperative process involving grace and merit, the Articles proclaim the biblical gospel of justification by faith only—Christ’s righteousness ...

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‘Against Peril of Idolatry.’

July 26, 2022 by John Fonville | Category: Idolatry | Tags: Idolatry, Anglican Formularies, Reformation Anglicanism, The Book of Homilies, images, Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (1571), Article 22 Of Purgatory

The Book of Homilies

The homily, 'Against Peril of Idolatry,' in the Second Book of Homilies, makes four key points against the use of images, which, it says, are idols under another name. ...

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