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[PJ-Comix]

...the Protestant Reformation...

Has anybody noticed that Protestants have disappeared in the past 50 years? Okay, not really but I mean people who claim to be "Protestant." When I was in high school, when people identified their religion they would almost always answer as Catholic or Jewish or Protestant. Nowadays you rarely hear Protestants use the term "Protestant." Instead they will either name their particular denomination or give the generic answer of "Christian." But as to claiming to be "Protestant"...you rarely hear that anymore.

[circlecity]

I am looking forward to reading this book. Metaxes is an excellent writer and a very engaging speaker.

[Yashcheritsiy]

I *do* know that there are a metric ton of butthurt Catholics and Orthodox on Twitter every time his name is mentioned.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Among evangelical and Pentecostal Christians, who are heirs of the Reformation, Luther is most well known for his recovery of the doctrine of justification — that salvation for the Christian is by God's grace through faith and not through any work of man.

It didn't have to be "recovered." Baptistic outgroups dating all the way back to the Apostles themselves believed this all along.

[OrangeHoof]

I wonder what he would say about the church that carries his name...the Lutherans?

[Bellflower]

I thought the movie several years back about ML was a good movie. Has anyone else seen it, and if so did you like it?

[boatbums]

What Luther did at a most basic level was "rediscover" God, Metaxas maintained, highlighting his book's subtitle. The gospel truths the reformer brought to the surface and emphasized were not "new" revelations whatsoever, but timeless ones that had been buried under so much tradition that they had gotten lost.

Those same timeless Biblical truths are STILL under attack because the enemy of our faith continues to try to suppress them and he draws many into his schemes. We should be mindful of this always and not allow political correctness, watered down theology, everybody-get-along attitudes or weak-kneed ecumenicalism to prevail. If we don't stand up for something, it is said, we will fall for anything.

Thanks for this article. I am interested in reading Eric Metaxas' book on Martin Luther. It sounds like he is being objective in his writing which is not always easy to find these days.