The Church
Branches and Schisms (2) Church and State (1) Church Authority (1) Church Corruptions (1) Church Discipline (1) Church Government (2) Church Purity (1) Marks of the Church (1) Missions (1) Preaching (1) Protestant Family Tree (1)
The Church
An overview of the Reformation’s recovery of the church through the gospel, Scripture, sacraments, discipline, worship, polity, and mission.
Branches and Schisms
Major Schisms in Church History
A chronological overview of major schisms in church history and the doctrinal, political, and institutional divisions that produced them.
Reformation Branches
A visual guide to the earliest branches of the Protestant Reformation and the principal reformers associated with each tradition.
Church and State
Church and State
A history of church and civil power from the martyrs and Constantine through the Reformation, liberty of conscience, and the First Amendment.
Church Authority
Authority
How the Reformation opposed human autonomy and ecclesiastical tradition by restoring Scripture as the church’s supreme authority.
Church Corruptions
Corruptions in the Church
A survey of the moral, institutional, and doctrinal corruptions in the late medieval church that formed the backdrop to the Reformation.
Church Discipline
Church Discipline
How the Reformers recovered pastoral church discipline as a mark of the true church, a means of restoration, and a safeguard for the congregation.
Church Government
Church Polity
An introduction to biblical church government and the episcopal, presbyterian, and congregational models that developed after the Reformation.
Church Polity and Politics
How Protestant forms of church government shaped political habits, representation, councils, local authority, and resistance to hierarchy.
Church Purity
Purity
How the Reformation located holiness after justification, joining sanctification to grace, union with Christ, faith, love, and daily repentance.
Marks of the Church
Where Christ Is Found
How Luther, Calvin, Tyndale, and the Reformation confessions identified the true church by Word, sacrament, and discipline.
Missions
Gospel Missions
How vernacular preaching, Geneva, early overseas efforts, and Reformation theology helped prepare the modern Protestant missionary movement.
Preaching
Preaching
Why the Reformation restored biblical preaching to the center of worship and treated the proclaimed Word as essential to the life of the church.
Protestant Family Tree
Protestant Family Tree
A visual family tree tracing the historical relationships among major Protestant traditions that emerged from the Reformation.
