Dr. W.R. Godfrey: Waldo, Waldensians, & Moderns

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/peter-waldo-and-the-waldensians/

Peter Waldo and the Waldensians

by W. Robert Godfrey

 



Waldensian Territory

By the twelfth century, the church in Western Europe was indeed powerful and impressive. In the emerging Gothic architecture, we can see something of the devotion of the people and the wealth of the bishops. In the developing scholastic

Bp. John Charles Ryle: Real Presence, What is It?

Bishop John Charles Ryle
(1816-1900)
Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool, UK


H/T to Hudson Barton for
reminding us of Bishop John Charles Ryle’s view.


http://anglo-reformed.org/real-presence



Real
Presence


Real Presence. What Is
It?




by
J.C. Ryle


"If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." - Exod.
xxxiii. 15


There is a word in the text that heads this
page which

Update (8/12/12): Select Works of Bishop John Bale

Bishop John Bale (1495-1563)




http://books.google.com/books?id=Gh4YAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#v=onepage&q&f=false

Update:  12 Aug 2012

Select
Works of John Bale by Bishop of Ossory, Prebend of
Canterbury.  He is buried in Canterbury.

Pages 100 ff.  “The Examination of William Thorpe,”  a Wycliffite, by ABC Arundel in 1407.

Thorpe, as told by
Bishop Bale, complains about the “

R.C. Sproul: "The Battle for the Table" (Holy Communion)

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/battle-table/


The Battle for the Table



by R.C. Sproul



There have been centuries of debate over the church’s understanding of the doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. Before we survey the critical issues involved, we need to understand that the main reason why the argument continues, and at times becomes fierce, is because the church understands the vital

Heidelberg Catechism, 76-80: Lord's Supper & Popish Mass

The Heidelberg
Catechism

As one Dutch
Elder once said, “This Catechism is the heart cry from the pew!”Question 76. What
is it then to eat the crucified body, and drink the shed blood of Christ?


Answer: It is not only to embrace with
believing heart all the sufferings and death of Christ and thereby to obtain
the pardon of sin, and life eternal; (a) but also, besides that, to become more

Wittenberg Door: "John Wycliffe - Part 1"

http://wittenberg-door.blogspot.com/2012/03/john-wycliffe-part-1.html



John Wycliffe – Part 1





John Wycliffe was one of the firebrands of Church history. Known as the
“morning star of the Reformation," John Wycliff preceded Luther, Calvin, and
Knox by almost two hundred years.


The Youthful Wycliffe



Except for the year of his birth, 1320, not much is known of the young
Englishman