Recommended Reformation Resources

Charlie

Here is a list of resources that I recommend to those studying the Reformation. All of these works are defensible at the highest levels of scholarship, though most (especially the biographies) are also fairly accessible. I’m only addressing secondary sources here. If anyone wants to talk about primary sources, let me know. Or if there’s a topic I didn’t mention, let me know, I probably have bibliography for it.

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Where Did the New Calvinism Come From?

Jay

“The New Calvinism is no exception. While the theological seeds had been planted in previous years and decades, the movement was awaiting a catalyst that would allow the isolated individuals to coalesce into a movement. The catalyst in this case was the Internet and social media.”

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People of God: God's Glory in Many Ways, Part One

Kevin T. Bauder

NickImageRead the series so far.

Biblical Christians ought to agree that God’s purpose in all His works is to bring glory to Himself. Whatever God has done in history, whether He has accomplished it directly or whether He has chosen to permit it through the agency of others, He has done in order that His perfections might be put on display, recognized, and acknowledged by His moral creatures. This point is not the dividing line between dispensationalism and its alternatives.

Biblical Christians should also agree that God is greatly glorified through the plan of redemption. That this plan was part of God’s purpose from eternity past is clear in Scripture. For example, the apostle Peter speaks of Christ as a lamb who was “foreknown before the foundation of the world” (1 Pet. 1:19-20). God always intended to glorify Himself by redeeming humans through the cross-work of Christ.

All saved individuals of all times and places hold a great deal in common. Their commonality is one consideration that undergirds passages like Hebrews 11. The life of faith is essentially the same life, at whatever period in the history of redemption. Indeed, if the life of faith is not essentially the same in both Testaments, and in every part of each Testament, then the argument of the entire book of Hebrews simply collapses.

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