Works Righteousness
Faith and Works
What Scripture means by works, and why Rome insists that good works merit grace and eternal life in addition to faith, set against Ephesians 2:8-9, Psalm 49:7-8, Romans 3:24 and 11:6, and the five solas of the Reformation.
Faith and Works
What Scripture means by works, and why Rome insists that good works merit grace and eternal life in addition to faith, set against Ephesians 2:8-9, Psalm 49:7-8, Romans 3:24 and 11:6, and the five solas of the Reformation.
Glossary of Catholic Terms
A glossary of Roman Catholic terms defined from Rome's own Catechism, Code of Canon Law, and papal documents, each with a brief answer from Scripture and the Reformation.
Glossary of Catholic Terms
A glossary of Roman Catholic terms defined from Rome's own Catechism, Code of Canon Law, and papal documents, each with a brief answer from Scripture and the Reformation.
Grace Comparison
A side-by-side comparison of Roman Catholic and Reformation teaching on grace.
Grace Comparison
A side-by-side comparison of Roman Catholic and Reformation teaching on grace.
Indulgences
The Roman doctrine of indulgences and the controversy that led Luther to post the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517.
Indulgences
The Roman doctrine of indulgences and the controversy that led Luther to post the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517.
Justification
Why justification by grace alone through faith alone was the heart of the Reformation and the answer to humanity’s need for righteousness before God.
Mary
An introduction to Roman Catholic Mariology: the four Marian dogmas, Mary as Mediatrix and Queen, and Marian devotion, weighed against Scripture, with a closing word on how Christians rightly honor the mother of our Lord.
Mary
An introduction to Roman Catholic Mariology: the four Marian dogmas, Mary as Mediatrix and Queen, and Marian devotion, weighed against Scripture, with a closing word on how Christians rightly honor the mother of our Lord.
Pelagius
The Pelagian controversy over original sin, human ability, and divine grace, and Augustine’s defense of salvation as the sovereign work of God.
Purity
How the Reformation located holiness after justification, joining sanctification to grace, union with Christ, faith, love, and daily repentance.
Purpose
How the Reformation recovered humanity’s chief end: to glorify God and enjoy Him through worship, vocation, obedience, and life in Christ.
Roman Catholic Justification
The doctrine of justification as the central issue between Rome and the Reformers, on which every other difference rests.
Roman Catholic Justification
The doctrine of justification as the central issue between Rome and the Reformers, on which every other difference rests.
Roman Catholic Salvation
The collision between Rome's sacramental way of salvation and the gospel of justification by faith alone, in the words of the Catechism, the Council of Trent, and the Reformers.
Roman Catholic Salvation
The collision between Rome's sacramental way of salvation and the gospel of justification by faith alone, in the words of the Catechism, the Council of Trent, and the Reformers.
Roman Catholic Views on Solas
How the five solas of the Reformation answer Roman Catholic teaching on salvation and authority.
Roman Catholic Views on Solas
How the five solas of the Reformation answer Roman Catholic teaching on salvation and authority.
Roman Catholicism
An introduction to Roman Catholic belief, doctrine, and polity, and how the Reformers answered it from Scripture.
Roman Catholicism
An introduction to Roman Catholic belief, doctrine, and polity, and how the Reformers answered it from Scripture.
Rome and the Reformation at a Glance
Charts RCC6 to RCC10: the ten agreements and two fault lines, two axioms behind Roman Catholic doctrine, the shared heritage, the two doors into justification, and the merit equation.
Rome and the Reformation at a Glance
Charts RCC6 to RCC10: the ten agreements and two fault lines, two axioms behind Roman Catholic doctrine, the shared heritage, the two doors into justification, and the merit equation.
Sacraments
How the Reformers challenged the medieval sacramental system and recovered baptism and the Lord’s Supper as signs joined to the promise of the gospel.
Short Pointers on Rome and the Reformation
Ten short pointers on Rome and the Reformation: material and formal sufficiency, tradition, Nicodemism, penance, the Church, Newman's two decisions, the real difference, the shared heritage, saved or being saved, and gift and reward.
Short Pointers on Rome and the Reformation
Ten short pointers on Rome and the Reformation: material and formal sufficiency, tradition, Nicodemism, penance, the Church, Newman's two decisions, the real difference, the shared heritage, saved or being saved, and gift and reward.
Sola Gratia
An explanation of sola gratia: salvation is God's free gift to undeserving sinners, accomplished and applied by grace alone rather than human merit.
The Anathemas of Trent
The thirty-three canons on justification decreed by the Council of Trent in its sixth session, January 13, 1547, each ending with anathema sit, in the 1851 translation of Theodore Alois Buckley.
The Anathemas of Trent
The thirty-three canons on justification decreed by the Council of Trent in its sixth session, January 13, 1547, each ending with anathema sit, in the 1851 translation of Theodore Alois Buckley.
The Augsburg Confession
The full English text of the Augsburg Confession of 1530, written by Philip Melanchthon and presented before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg: preface, twenty-one articles of faith, seven articles on abuses corrected, and the signatories.
The Constitutions of Oxford
The Constitutions of Oxford, 1409, which restricted preaching and Bible translation in response to Wycliffe and the Lollards.
The Constitutions of Oxford
The Constitutions of Oxford, 1409, which restricted preaching and Bible translation in response to Wycliffe and the Lollards.
The Freedom of the Human Will
A survey of the Reformation debate between Erasmus and Luther over the fallen will, saving grace, divine sovereignty, and human responsibility.
The Smalcald Articles (1537)
An introduction to the Smalcald Articles of 1537 and the complete English text of Martin Luther's three-part confession, with preface and subscriptions.
The Tetrapolitan Confession (1530)
An introduction to the Tetrapolitan Confession of 1530 and its complete English text, including the exordium, twenty-three chapters, and conclusion.
The Way of Salvation According to the Roman Catholic Church
The way of salvation as taught by Rome and by the Reformers, set side by side.
The Way of Salvation According to the Roman Catholic Church
The way of salvation as taught by Rome and by the Reformers, set side by side.
