Practica Prophetica

Gathered from a series of articles that first appeared in The Review and Herald in 1884, and then were later reprinted (with a few minor changes) in The Signs of the Times in 1888, this book covers some of the history of the Reformation up until the 1800’s with the aim of showing that the Reformation has been side-tracked by scholastic doctrinal disputes, and dividing over strained religious theories, and that the remedy for this is a message of moral renovation.

It was a moral renovation (through the forgiveness and cleansing of sin) that Luther sought and found, and which empowered the Reformation of the 16th century. But that was just a beginning.

The end of that Reformation, can only be a perfecting of that original work. And the perfection of moral renovation is credited to the work of the Third Angel’s Message:

Revelation 14
¹² …here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

And so the Third Angel’s Message finishes the work of the Reformation, not by introducing yet more strained ideas, but by bringing back moral renovation, and completing it in men and women. 51p

Contents

1. The Reformation Begins
   • Beginning of the Reformation
   • Justification by Faith
   • The Lord’s Supper
   • Fanaticism
   • A Difference of Opinion
2. Attempts at Unity
   • Melancthon Proposes Unity
   • Calvin Proposes Unity
   • The Interim: More Division
   • The Rise of Scholasticism
   • Controversy Over Good Works
   • Synergistical Controversy
   • Controversy Over the Human Mind
3. More Disputes
   • Reconciliation at Altenburg Fails
   • “Form of Concord” Brings Discord
   • Calvinism Brings in New Disputes
4. More Factions
   • All United Against the Anabaptists
   • England: Conformists and Non-Conformists
   • Controversy Over Bishops
   • Controversy Over Sabbath
   • Thomas Cartwright’s Extreme Views Divide
   • The Rise of Independents
5. Controversies
   • Philosophical Controversies
   • Liberty for Calvinists Troubles the Lutherans
   • Attempts to Bring Harmony
   • The Pietistical Controversy
   • Calvinist Controversy Over the “Divine Decrees”
6. Controversies and Revivals
   • Arminian Controversy
   • Controversy Between Episcopalians and Puritans
   • Tumult Over the Quakers
   • The Rise of Atheism
   • Trinitarian Controversy
   • The Wesleyan Revival
   • Second Advent Revival
   • A System of Morality Needed
7. A Moral Reformation
   • A Reformation Based on Morality
   • The Third Angel’s Message

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