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Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses onto the door of Wittenburg’s chapel, an act that is credited with launching the Protestant Reformation. The theology of the Reformation can be summed up with the five solas. The word sola means “alone.” First, we celebrate sola scriptura: the conviction that God’s Word alone holds reigning authority over the Christian and the Church. We add sola fide: justification is through faith alone, apart from good works. Joined to it are sola gratia and solus Christus: our salvation is by God’s grace alone as believers have union with Christ alone. The final sola urges that the aim of our salvation is soli deo gloria: to the glory of God alone! Raising high these themes today, we carry on the message and the work of God’s Spirit as that work received fresh impetus five hundred years ago.
The 3 workshop session messages of Reformation: Recovering the Essence of the Gospel include:
- “Friends and Mentors in the Reformation” by Daniel Doriani
- “The Biblical Pattern for a Modern Reformation” by Richard Phillips
- “A Tale of Two Churches: Common Denominators of Church Revitalization” by Timothy Witmer
(3 mp3 message downloads)
The Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology is the longest running national Reformed conference. It was started in 1974 by Dr. James Boice. It exists to glorify God through a rediscovery of the Church’s great doctrinal foundations.
