In this post some information about resources for study of the Reformation will be provided; a short definition of indulgences will be given; sacerdotal will be defined; some comments will be made about “The...
Archive - October 2015
Synod of Pennsylvania Minutes, New School, 1865
During the course of your web-surfing or reading about Presbyterian history you may have run across the terms, “Old School” and “New School,” or their abbreviations, “OS” and “NS.” Before getting to the purpose of this...
Reformation Day 2015, John Calvin, T. C. Johnson
Keeping with the Protestant Reformation theme for the postings in October, T. C. Johnson’s book, John Calvin and The Genevan Reformation: A Sketch, Richmond, 1900, will be the subject of this antiquarian review. The...
Reformation Day 2015, Henry VIII’s Divorce
On Reformation Day, the posting of Martin Luther’s theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg is remembered as the event that launched the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s initial intention was to reform...
Reformation Day 2015, Suggested Books
The following suggested books concerning the history of the Reformation are listed here because they were not written for professional-academic historians, but they still provide good content and limited delving into...
Augustine’s Quest for Rest in His Confessions
On October 31, 2015, the four-hundred-ninety-eighth anniversary of Martin Luther’s posting of his ninety-five theses on the Wittenberg Castle Church door in Germany will be remembered. The...