Tonight I am reading Terry Johnson's 2000 book Reformed Worship: Worship that is According to Scripture. Here's a nice historical-theological distinction from Johnson:
Many modern historians of the Reformation period have allowed the dominant personality of Luther and his struggle to faith to overshadow the heart of the Swiss and Calvinistic Reformation. For Luther and the Lutherans the focus was justification. "How may a man be just before God?" was their primary question. But for Zwingli, Calvin, and the "Reformed" stream, the focus was not justification, as important as they agreed it was. Their focus was worship. "How is God to be worshiped?" they asked. For Lutherans the enemy of faith was works. For the Reformed, the enemy of faith was idolatry (17) (emphasis mine).
2 comments:
Hey, brother, slow down. I am trying to keep up with your veracious reading pace.
I have begun to pick up speed lately. I am enjoying these books. They have been very edifying.
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