The Reformed Parsonage

The parsonage, an institution which has come to occupy a rather important place in the Christian Church and is part of our Reformed heritage, has its origins (as have many other practices in the church) in the earth-taking rejection by Martin Luther of the doctrine and the forms and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. Because of the ordinance established in Paradise that a man take a wife and that she be a helpmeet for him and because of his insistence on a return to the Bible, Martin Luther...