Last Friday we looked at the biblical truth called justification by faith. We saw from a 19th-century American statement of faith, “The New Hampshire Confession,” three ways that being justified ...

Protestants believe that we are justified in a one-time occurrence and that it is imputed (we are declared righteous by God). They call this “faith alone.” Catholics agree that initial justification ...

Both traditions can appreciate Luther’s famous dictum as a recovery, not a discovery. Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, famously broke with the Roman Catholic Church, ...

St. Polycarp was the bishop of Smyrna and a disciple of St. John, according to St. Irenaeus (c. 130-c. 202) and Tertullian (c. 155-c. 220). I’d like to examine his Epistle to the Philippians. It ...