Why the Reformers said salvation is by grace alone—not effort, decisions, or devotion—and how this doctrine confronts modern ...

My conversion to Catholicism was marked by many small, imperceptible movements of the Holy Spirit, as is the case for all conversions, but there are some big moments and realizations that help me ...

Protestants split from Catholics based on a few key theological differences. What did they each traditionally believe about the source of religious authority? Catholics believe that all the religious ...

The Protestant Reformation broke out, in theory, out of a concern for the authority of Scripture. But the resulting doctrine of sola Scriptura—the Bible is the only authority—is actually ...

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenburg Church, igniting the Protestant Reformation. Luther was not trying to start a political or a spiritual revolution ...

Today we continue our look at a set of doctrinal truths which, during the Protestant Reformation, came to be known as “The Five Solas.” These five biblical truths, though they were not systematically ...

“God can change the world with just one willing soul/Who will stand up for the truth and give him starring role?/So come in to the fullness and open up the door/Maybe it is you he’s looking for”—from ...

Orthodox Christians do not hold to the Reformation principle of Sola scriptura. Instead, we view the scriptures as the pinnacle or “summit” 1 of holy tradition, neither separating the two as wholly ...

Austen Ivereigh has done a great service by getting beneath the tabloid headlines about gay bishops and same-sex marriage to point out that the underlying difference in the Anglican Communion, as ...