Was the Reformation a Mistake?: Why Catholic Doctrine Is Not Unbiblical

Written by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Matthew Levering

Narrated by Sean Runnette

Was the Reformation a mistake?In its actual historical context, it hardly seems fair to call the Reformation a "mistake." In 1517, the Church was in need of a spiritual and theological reform. The issues raised by Renaissance humanism - and by the profound corruption of the Church's leaders, the Avignon papacy, and the Great Schism in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries - lingered unresolved. What were key theological problems that led to the Reformation?Theologian Matthew Levering helps readers see these questions from a Catholic perspective. Surveying nine key themes - Scripture, Mary, Eucharist, Monasticism, Justification and Merit, Saints Priesthood, and Scripture - he examines the positions of Martin Luther and makes a case that the Catholic position is biblically defensible once one allows for the variety of biblically warranted modes of interpreting Scripture. At the same time, Levering makes clear that he cannot "prove" the Catholic case.The book concludes with a spirited response by "mere Protestant" theologian Kevin J. Vanhoozer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ChristianAudio.com
• Release date: Sep 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781683667018

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

Kevin J. Vanhoozer (PhD, Cambridge University) is research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.

Reviews for Was the Reformation a Mistake?

[Eric · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The biblical reflections Levering offers are insightful, but they lack teeth.

[khris · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Typical papist nonsense, that has no basis of truth, just deluded nonsense. The papacy and the Catholic Church was corrupt, unGodly , unscriptural and demonic. The poor was oppressed and suppression, the elite were fat, the clergy was depraved, gluttonous, rich and damming themselves you hell, no different to the novus ordo sect with the public sodomite Paul vi and the heretic jp2 and the Marxist apostate Francis