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Tabletalk Magazine, August 2004: A Defining Era: The History of the Church in the Fourth Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

The August 2004 issue of Tabletalk examines the history of the church in the fourth century. Contributors include R. C. Sproul, John D. Hannah, Richard Gamble, George Grant, Ken Jones, Gene Edward Veith, and R. C. Sproul Jr.

The Weekend By Sinclair B. Ferguson “The Greatest of All Protestant Heresies”? Let us begin with a church history exam question. Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621) was a figure not to be taken lightly. He was Pope Clement VIII’s personal theologian and one of the most able figures in the Counter-Reformation movement within sixteenth-century Roman Catholicism. On one occasion, he wrote: “The greatest of all Protestant heresies is———.” Complete, explain, and discuss Bellarmine’s statement. How
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