Next to papal infallibility, the biggest barrier to Catholic-Protestant unity is the humble Jewish girl who gave birth to Jesus of Nazareth. By popular piety and papal decree, Roman Catholics have ...

Sola fide is shorthand for the central issue of the Reformation, the material cause, which was the question of justification. The Protestant Reformers set forth a doctrine that our justification is by ...

A great metaphysical drama played out on the world’s stage. So, here's a proposition: The novel was an art form—the art form—of the modern Protestant West, and as the main strength of established ...

The 440th anniversary of that memorable day when Martin Luther first posted his theses on the door of the church at Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation is about to be observed. For me ...

In the Religious Landscape Study (RLS), we group Protestant respondents into one of three “traditions” – the evangelical tradition, mainline tradition or the historically Black Protestant tradition – ...

The most controversial religious book of the year was published last week.* Written by Theodore Maynard, an ex-Congrega-tionalist who is now a well-known Catholic writer and lecturer, it is the first ...

A PURELY statistical study of the life and growth of Protestantism in the United States during the last hundred years does not support a very widely held conviction that Protestantism is losing its ...

INSTITUTIONS die hard. Especially religious institutions. They take a long time about it. Generations and centuries. The nostalgia of religious habits. The endowments and vested interests. Paganism ...

The death of a Pope is always a major marker in the life of the Catholic church worldwide. But John Witvliet, director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, says that the death of Pope John ...

The nation’s religious makeup has shifted dramatically in the past 15 years. The nation’s religious makeup has shifted dramatically in the past 15 years, with a sharp drop in the number of Americans ...