Saturday, April 30, 2005

what is reformed?

What does it mean to be reformed? The reason I ask is because we were going over some philosophy of ministry stuff at our leadership meeting in church, and it came up that we have to ascribe to the "basic tenets of the reformed faith". My first thought was that most of the people on the team probably didn't know much about the reformed faith. So I pose the question to my many readers.. but this is what I'm thinking about:

If you're debating with another evangelical, usually if you say you're reformed, you mean that you believe in predestination and TULIP, or at least TUIP.. But, historically, reformed means Protestant, as distinct from Roman Catholic; in other words, reformed means you hold to the 5 solas: sola scriptura, sola fide, sola grati, soli deo gloria, and sola ? (I always forget that one!).

Of course, in the early Reformation, there wasn't such theological splintering. But I thought it was worth asking. So which is it?

6 Comments:

Anonymous aggiesoonermom said...

Sola ? has always been my favorite.

10:09 AM  
Blogger michael said...

I can see this discussion is going to go far.

:)

11:40 AM  
Blogger BML said...

Well stated aggiesoonermom.

Leave it up to Mike to forget Christ Alone.

BML

3:10 PM  
Blogger michael said...

HAHAHA

you remember my old xanga id's expertise, right BML? making hard things easy and easy things hard!

4:03 PM  
Anonymous aggiesoonermom said...

Hey, Mister Smarty Master's Degree, I'm not the one who has a post called "Captain Underpants"! ;-)

11:34 PM  
Anonymous aggiesoonermom said...

Now that you've joined the Reformed blogring, you need a less spooky profile picture. Maybe a bunny rabbit or something.

BTW, have you noticed how well the Cardinals are doing? Perhaps you should give in and root for the good guys. heh, heh

10:17 PM  

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