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Dec 4, 2020 · THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG: «Changes» by Yes. I know I am not alone in first discovering Yes when they released the now classic 90125 album on 7 November 1983. They had managed to revamp their sound for the 1980s, making themselves relevant and likeable to a new, young generation of music fans.
Definition and terminology. Reformed Christianity is often called Calvinism after John Calvin, influential reformer of Geneva. The term was first used by opposing Lutherans in the 1550s.
Reformed Christianity originated with the Reformation in Switzerland when Huldrych Zwingli began preaching what would become the first form of the Reformed doctrine in Zürich in 1519.
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Many congregations in the Christian Reformed Church today observe Lent—but in a way that seems unusual to most Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, and Anglicans. It is an approach already reflected in a 1933 editorial in The Banner, where longtime editor H.J. Kuiper described both an increase of interest in and opposition to observing Lent, the...
In part because of the limited historical information available to him, Kuiper gave no attention to another dimension of Lent: the link between Lent and baptism. As recent historical studies have shown, Lent came about as early church leaders were also saying yes and no to possible ministry practices in light of contemporary cultural challenges. In...
By the time John Calvin came along, the memory of Lent as a season for shaping new Christians had long faded. Adult baptisms were rare. Just about everyone was baptized as an infant. The Lenten disciplines were still practiced, but they were often imposed by the church in a distorted way as a means of currying favor with God. So Calvin said yes to ...
So how should we celebrate Lent today? We need to join fourth-century pastors, John Calvin, H.J. Kuiper, and a lot of thoughtful contemporary Roman Catholic leaders who are studying the same history, in making wise choices that promote faithful discipleship. We, too, need to say both yes and no in response to particular challenges we face in our ow...
The first of two chapters comprising Part 2 compares Calvin and Barth on the Lord's Supper (Trevor Hart); the second compares them on baptism (Anthony Cross). Hart helpfully sets up his discussion reviewing the questions that were/are central to historical discussions about the Eucharist.
Oct 5, 2012 · Replacement Theology is closely associated with Reformed (or Covenant) Theology, the brand of theology historically linked to John Calvin (1509-1564) and the Protestant Reformation.
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Reformed church, any of several major representative groups of classical Protestantism that arose in the 16th-century Reformation. Originally, all of the Reformation churches used this name (or the name Evangelical) to distinguish themselves from the “unreformed,” or unchanged, Roman Catholic.
