We Need a New Reformation

October 31, 2011 by Douglas Baker

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As the Bible becomes increasingly an object of interest in a volatile and transitional time similar in scope to that of sixteenth-century Europe, a move must be made away from "whateverism" to a biblical reality grounded in the doctrines of the Bible. In the words of historian Michael Reeves, the Protestant Reformation was not simply "a negative movement" away from Rome. It was "a positive movement" toward the Gospel. It was a re-discovery of the verbum incarnatum—the eternal Logos made flesh—so that now, in the words of Heinrich Bullinger in the Second Helvetic Confession (1566), "the preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God." Such a movement must emerge again beginning with many supposedly "evangelical" congregations who stand in deep need of reformation, sixteenth-century style.

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About Douglas Baker

Douglas E. Baker is the former Executive Editor of The Baptist Messenger, and serves now as Assistant to the Provost of Union University. Follow him via Twitter or Facebook.

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