Proto-Protestantism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jTld1nmkq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVz4okhdRU Several weeks ago I caught Jordan Cooper's vide...

I recently finished Frederick Heymann's George of Bohemia: King of Heretics (1965, Princeton University Press). It's a weighty and...

Too often Protestants have fallen prey to 'successionist' thinking or rather tying the idea of succession to some kind of institutio...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/waldensianism-before-waldo-the-myth-of-apostolic-protoprotestantism-in-antebe...

The former Irish Roman Catholic priest Richard Bennett (1938-2019) has always been a figure of sympathy and respect in my book. He was so th...

Many of the doctrinal points Melia wishes to make (which he does by means of collating numerous quotations and references) are troublesome t...

The Origin, Persecutions, and Doctrines of The Waldenses by Pius Melia. The original was published in 1870. The copy I read was a 1978 AMS ...

Through the efforts of my son I was able to read Peter Brock's The Political and Social Doctrines of the Unity of Czech Brethren in the ...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVIII) While our Biblicist theology is necessari...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVII) The time is now. These essays have attem...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XIII) Not all among the Czech Brethren and Walde...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XII) The First Reformation it would seem embrace...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (X) There is value in a further elaboration of th...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (VIII) The question of Waldensian placement becom...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (VII) The Great Schism which erupted in 1378 gene...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (VI) Some would date the First Reformation to the...

Chelčický finds himself occupying an almost unique place in pre-Reformation Church History, representing views that would all but disappear ...

Petr Chelčický was born sometime around 1380 in Southern Bohemia, today's Czech Republic.* Associated with the village of Chelčice, he w...

Apart from the Scriptural evidence that supports the nonviolent and pacifist position, there is a significant testimony to be found in Chur...

Tim Keller is but one among many who argues that Christians ought to live in and focus on the city. It's the centre of culture and the ...