Deformed Lutheranism and Unreformed Rome Commemorating the Reformation Together
Rev. Angus Stewart critiques the 2017 joint Lutheran-Catholic commemoration of the Reformation's 500th anniversary, arguing that modern Lutheranism has departed from its confessional roots on justification by faith alone while Rome remains unreformed in its false doctrines. Stewart contrasts the biblical gospel of the Reformation with contemporary ecumenical compromises and the persistent errors of Roman Catholicism that Luther opposed.
Rev. Angus Stewart published in the Belfast News Letter, 29 January, 2016 The title of an article in the News Letter (23 January, 2016) on the joint Lutheran and Roman Catholic “commemoration” of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 requires the change of the first letter of its first word. Instead of “Reformation brings churches together,” it is the “deformation” of Lutheranism that unites them with Rome in common prayers. Rome still holds the theology against which Martin...