… In the December 2009 issue of the BOT magazine, Stuart Olyott argues in his article Where Luther Got it Wrong – and Why We Need to Know About It that Luther believed in a mere ‘Word ministry’ which Olyott identifies as relying wholly on the Word of God for the conversion of sinners and neglecting other pastoral duties, in particular prayer and a trust in God’s immediate and direct action in conversion. He thus denies what he calls ‘mediate regeneration’ whereby God uses …
Posts Tagged Martin Luther
This year’s Siegwinden Conference (Germany), held from 24th-26th February, experienced a great drop in the standards of teaching which it has come to appreciate over the years. The main speaker, Philip Eveson, a Bible College Principal and reputed to be a Reformed man, proved a wolf in sheep’s clothing and openly declared himself to be a contender against the reformed faith. …
Where Olyott Got It Wrong
Mar 10
Stuart Olyott caused such a stir with his slangy persiflage of Luther in his Where Luther Got It Wrong – and Why We Need to Know About It 1 that the BOT magazine had to spend part of the following two issues striving to repair the damage. Olyott claims, without giving either source or context, that Luther’s position on the Word of God was the following:
‘I opposed indulgences and all papists, but never by force. I simply taught, …
Henry Bullinger
Sep 15
Henry Bullinger was a pioneer Reformer who, like his contemporary Martin Bucer, has long remained in the shadows cast by Martin Luther and John Calvin. Happily, modern scholarship is revealing both Bucer and Bullinger to have been top rank Reformers in no way secondary to Luther and Calvin. Indeed, modern research shows that Bullinger was a more thorough and consistent Reformer than both Luther and Calvin. Born in 1504 in Bremgarten, Switzerland to a wealthy …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… (c. 1320-c. 1384): Star of the Reformation
Joseph Hall (1574-1656): Man of Peace
Katherina Luther (1499-1552): The Morning Star of Wittenberg
Martin Bucer (1491-1551): Moderator of the Reformation
Matthew Parker (1504-1575): Cleaning Up After Mary
Miles Coverdale (1487-1569): Superintendent-At-Large of the Reformation
Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500-55): The Man Who Gave Divine Lustre to the Reformation
Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676) and the Poetry of Piety
Philip Doddridge (1702-1751): …
Portraits of Faithful Saints
Aug 18
… was edified by the Continental section in which Hanko rightly praises well-known Reformers such as Luther and Calvin but also lesser known, though vitally important men, such as Olevianus, Ursinus, Bullinger and Bucer. It is when the reader turns to the British section that the author’s bias becomes evident. Not one single English Reformer during the long reign of Elizabeth, be it Parker, Coverdale, Jewel, Grindal, Perkins or whoever, is mentioned by Hanko as a ‘Faithful Saint’. In Henry …
… was the pioneer of infant baptism and any one whom Gay thinks follows Constantine, such as Luther, Calvin, Mary, Elizabeth and the majority of British Reformers, are all apostate and rebels against God and are members of corrupt churches. Gay is so sweeping in his condemnations that he can place Latimer, Ridley and the like in the same hell-bound vehicle as Mary the Bloody herself!
Darkness until Fuller shed his light
In order to explain his theory that spiritual …
… in Strasburg, Geneva and London. He was particularly influenced on the question of baptism by Martin Bucer of Strasburg. Sadly, from Luther’s side, apart from a short respite, he received only adverse criticism as Luther now ranked the Swiss Reformed churches with the Catabaptists, seeing little, if any, difference. Paradoxically, this was because Luther held to a more sacramental and mystical view of the ordinances than did Bullinger, which was one of Bullinger’s main complaints …
Missionary McCoy
Aug 21
… my findings in another work. Thompson respected McCoy highly and assisted him to baptise Corbly Martin, the first teacher in McCoy’s Indian School. Martin asked the Miami Association to accept the Fort Wayne Church into membership and help support the Indian mission. The Association asked Thompson to serve as clerk and forward their decision. They reported that:
“The united voice of every member that spoke on the subject, was in approbation of your conduct, object, candure …
Henry Bullinger (1504-1575)
Aug 17
… in modern times as Henry Bullinger, though he produced far more sound Christian writings than Luther, Calvin and Zwingli combined. An average of four editions of his works per year were printed in Switzerland alone for a hundred years and over fifty printers in other European countries were turning out countless editions. Reformers such as Miles Coverdale translated Bullinger into English from the 1530s on. Bullinger’s books were internationally treasured because they were said to be …
