On WHITE HORSE INN (Sun 800, Tue 1430, Sat 200) the countdown to October 31—Reformation Day and the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation—continues.
The month begins with a discussion of the pinnacle among the “Solas of the Reformation” — “Soli Deo Gloria” or “to God alone be glory”. As the previous programs have shown, Scripture alone reveals that the redemption of the saints was accomplished by the work of Christ alone, and is received by grace through faith alone. In short, God gets all the credit for our salvation from start to finish. As Paul says in Rom 11:35-36, “Who has given him a gift that he might be repaid? For of him and through him and to him are all things, to whom be the glory forever.”
The Solas summarize the pivotal views of the great Reformers, importantly, Luther and Calvin. However, most people who identify themselves as Protestant today are ignorant of those views and the vast impact of the Reformation, in general. On second and third weeks of October, the hosts discuss the influence of the Radical Reformation, as well as how the theology of the Anabaptist and Pietist movements shaped the founders of the Enlightenment and helped create what is known as Protestant liberalism today.
Across evangelicalism, however, the focus has gradually shifted to the here and now, rather than on God and his story of redemption, which culminated in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. That is the topic in “Christianity and Evangelicalism”.
The month culminates in a program commemorating the 500th anniversary of Luther’s nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses. But who was Luther, really, and what were the problems in the church of his day that he was seeking to address? The hosts will read and discuss excerpts from the Ninety-Five Theses and will also interact with Luther’s account of his own conversion to a theology rooted in the work of Christ alone, received through faith alone, all by grace alone, to the glory of God alone.
