What we say and do when someone is dead is more to do with ourselves than it is to do with the deceased, even if we talk in terms of respecting them or their wishes. The things we say in eulogies, obituaries and articles analysing a person’s legacy tend to tell us more about ourselves… Continue reading The papal mirror: How Evangelical commentary on the death of Pope Francis tells us more about Evangelicalism than it does about the Pope and Catholicism
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What was the basis of the Reformation criticism of veneration of Saints?
Explaining the basis for the reformation criticism of the veneration seems at first to be a straight-forward task of finding out what the arguments were that the reformers used. However, a number of contemporary historians have criticised the reliability of such an approach arguing that the reformers arguments alone fail to explain why change occurred… Continue reading What was the basis of the Reformation criticism of veneration of Saints?
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