PROGRESSIVE PROTESTANTISM (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Progressive ProtestantismIt appears, then, that the theology of the re formed communions may mean one of two things. It may mean reaction, or it may mean progress. Most of the earliest reformers thought that it meant reaction. Their idea was that the Catholic Church had been untrue to her ancient heritage, and, by her additions to Christian doctrine, to the pure faith of the apostolic age. To them the sources of Christian doctrine were the Holy Scriptures, and they measured the doc trines of the Latin Church by the standard of the Bible, interpreting the Bible, not in the light of Church councils and decrees, but according to the private judgment of the individual believer. Those who agreed as to what the Bible taught, formed separate churches or sects, and, in each case, founded their reactionary creeds on the infallibility of the Scriptures, which were re garded as the abiding organ of the Holy Ghost.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,