The Doctor’s Casebook: Dr Peter Rowe
Martin Luther: Personal Dilemma to Diet of Worms !
Hello and I pray the Lord’s blessing upon you today.
I am reading a book on the Reformation and it has given me some unexpected insights into the internal struggles of that great reformer, Martin Luther. One of the wonderful things about reading is that we can touch base with our own feelings in the experiences of others.
Before we look at Luther’s inner turmoil, let’s first take a whirlwind tour of what brought him to his crisis… a crisis that eventually had him stand before a Church Council at Worms (in Germany) – known as the Diet of Worms (hence our clever title) – and refuse to recant of his heretical view that salvation was by personal faith in Jesus Christ alone. As always, please forgive oversimplification for the sake of brevity.
The Doctor's Casebook series by dr. peter rowe PhD.,D.R. Phil,. M.Th.,B.Min
Just a short article for you this time, but it is nice and controversial. Here is something I am impatient to share with you and I sincerely hope you will feel strongly enough to write in with your views.
There has been certain paranoia in the ‘western’ churches including those in the UK about the threat of Islam to our religion, culture and safety. I have heard the expression ‘they are taking over’ so often it is becoming cliché.
Whereas, we all abhor the World Trade Centre incident and the Madrid and London train bombings and the dreadful carnage in Bali, we cannot blame an entire race or religion for this, any more than we can blame all Germans for the Holocaust. It would do us well to remember the atrocious acts in history committed by Christians, all in the name of God. The scars left by the Crusades – a cruel smear upon the history of Christian public relations – could be named as one of the root causes of today’s Christian/Muslim conflict. Of course, we could rightly argue that the conflict goes back to Isaac and Ishmael; but the church of Jesus Christ should know better!
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dr. peter rowe Ph.D., D.R.Phil., M.Th., B.Min.
It is such a joy to be working alongside Paul Anderson Walsh… at last! I look forward to getting to know you better and hopefully contributing something worthwhile towards a greater understanding of the whole counsel of God viewed through the eyes of Grace; God’s wonderful agape love.
First, let me say that I have, and always will, more questions than answers. Twenty-five years ago I knew almost everything, but now at 60 I know hardly anything at all; hence all the questions!
Years of service in Pentecostal churches has brought me to a place where I need to question where the movement is now and where it is going. I see things that need to be challenged. I believe the Pentecostal/Evangelical church is far from healthy and needs to re-evaluate everything from doctrine to methodologies to leadership structures.
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