Church and Ministry

With Reformation, Martin Luther ‘Gave Us Back the Gospel’

(Screenshot: Ligonier Ministries’ “Reformation 500 Celebration”)Derek W.H. Thomas, senior minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and Chancellor’s pofessor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, giving remarks at Ligonier Ministries’ Reformation 500 Celebration event at Sanford, Florida, on October 30, 2017.

Augustinian monk Martin Luther “gave us back the Gospel” when he began the Protestant Reformation, according to a Ligonier Ministries scholar.

Derek W.H. Thomas, senior minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, told those gathered at an event celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation on Monday evening that Luther was crucial to rediscovering the Gospel.

In a lecture titled “The Importance of Luther,” Thomas referenced Protestant theologian John Calvin, noting that the influential figure said of Luther that “he gave us back the Gospel.”

قالب وردپرس

Related