By Jordan Cooper

ISBN-10: 1498224237

ISBN-13: 9781498224239

ISBN-10: 1498224253

ISBN-13: 9781498224253

because the 16th century, the Protestant culture has been divided. The Reformed and Lutheran reformations, even though either devoted to the doctrine of the sinners justification through religion on my own, cut up over Zwingli and Luther's confrontation over the character of the Lord's Supper. for the reason that that point, the Reformed and Lutheran traditions have built their very own theological convictions, and proceed to disagree with each other. it's incumbent upon scholars of the reformation, within the Lutheran and Reformed traditions, to come back to an knowing of what those variations are, and why they matter.

In The nice Divide: A Lutheran assessment of Reformed Theology, Jordan Cooper examines those transformations from a Lutheran point of view. whereas looking to aid each side come to a extra nuanced knowing of each other, and writing in an irenic tone, Cooper contends that those alterations do nonetheless subject. during the paintings, Cooper engages with Reformed writers, either modern and previous, and demonstrates that the Lutheran culture is extra in step with the lessons of Scripture than the Reformed.

"This booklet supplies what it can provide with no getting distracted, crushed, or muted with skills. Cooper speaks with readability and conviction and makes simple the genuine changes that exist among the Reformed and the Lutheran branches of Reformation religion. The ebook will be learn profitably by means of someone dedicated to biblical constancy and doctrinal integrity, yet specially through these confident that the variations among Wittenberg and Geneva are trivial and inconsequential, or reason for dismissive condemnations."
--Joel Biermann, Professor of Systematic Theology, Concordia Seminary

Jordan Cooper is pastor of religion Lutheran Church in Watseka, IL and host of the simply and Sinner podcast. he's the writer of Christification: A Lutheran method of Theosis (2014).

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