Views During The Time of the Reformation (3): Views on the Church

THE TIME OF THE REFORMATION VIEWS ON THE CHURCH FORMAL PRINCIPLE (continued) THE TIME OF THE REFORMATION VIEWS ON THE CHURCH FORMAL PRINCIPLE (continued) In our preceding article we remarked that the main principles of the Reformation are usually to be considered to be two, namely the formal and the material principle. When we speak of the formal principle we mean that the Reformers acknowledged only one source of authority: the Holy Scriptures. Maintaining this principle they stood...