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Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Can Christians and churches be both catholic and Reformed? Can they commit not only to the ultimate authority of apostolic Scripture but also to receiving the Bible within the context of the apostolic church? This volume argues that to be Reformed means to go deeper into true catholicity rather than away from it. Michael Allen and Scott Swain offer a manifesto for a catholic and Reformed approach...

rules, or traditions, touching time and place of God’s worship, and touching order and comeliness in the same.… This kind of tradition, whether made by general Councils or particular Synods, we have care to maintain and observe.”6 In this book our wager is that Perkins was right: to be Reformed means to go deeper into true catholicity, not to move away from catholicity. A number of theological trends have arisen in recent decades, each of which celebrates or calls
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