Status Updates From The Reformation as Renewal:...

400 pages in and have now gotten to the Reformation

"Since baptism is a regenerate act, it cannot be a subjective event centered on the believers faith, which could only return baptism to the legalism of the via moderna."

"Liberation from the papacy was not substituted with a captivity to the individual but the freedom to interpret the Scriptures with the church catholic (universal), according to the analogy of faith."

In Calvin’s own words, “When I ponder the intended use of churches, somehow or other it seems to me unworthy of their holiness for them to take on images other than those living and symbolical ones which the Lord has consecrated by his Word.”

"If the contest were to be determined by patristic authority, the tide of victory—to put it very modestly—would turn to our side." - John Calvin