The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church
A long argument that the Reformers were retrieving the catholic tradition rather than breaking it.
Matthew Barrett contends that the magisterial Reformers understood themselves as recovering the historic church rather than founding a new one, and works through the patristic and medieval sources they drew on. It is lengthy, highly detailed and openly polemical, written for readers already inside the theological argument.
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Tyler Cowen
Matthew Barrett, The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. A lengthy and highly detailed polemic arguing that Protestantism is the true universal church, rather than a dissent per se. These are not my issues, but some people will like this book a good deal.
Source · July 2023
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