Because of a couple of questions, let me take a moment for a little aside before I return to my being a no-longer-teenage charismatic. It has been mentioned that first I say that Radical Reformation Protestants and Calvinists form part of the philosophical background of today’s progressive/liberal Christians and then I say that extreme ecstatics […]

Huldrychus Zwinglius, the famous Swiss Reformer known to us as Uldrych Zwingli, and Jean Cauvin, the famous French Reformer who fled to Switzerland, known to us as John Calvin, are considered the fathers of the Reformed family of churches [shhh, and, of course, John Knox]. They, like all the Reformers, had to deal with the problem of […]

There is a major difference between the way in which the Lutheran and Anglican Reformers looked at history, and the way in which the Radical Reformers looked at history. But, that difference is important. And the key difference was stated by the Lutherans in one word they called, “adiophora.” So, what is adiophora? This may […]

Were the Radical Reformers, by their philosophical attitudes, the ancestors of today’s progressive/liberal Christians? Or, to put it in more Francis Schaeffer type of writing, were the Radical Reformers the continuation of a philosophical trail that led to today’s progressive/liberal hermeneutic? [Note: There is a difference between the Reformers and the Radical Reformers.] I already […]