Long Before Luther: Tracing the Heart of the Gospel from Christ to the Reformation author_brooks-thomas the love of God

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Long Before Luther: Tracing the Heart of the Gospel from Christ to the Reformation author_brooks-thomas the love of GodWhere was the gospel before the Reformation? Contemporary evangelicals often struggle to answer that question. As a result, many Roman Catholics are quick to allege that the Reformation understanding of the gospel simply did not exist before the 1500s. They assert that key Reformation doctrines, like sola fide, were nonexistent in the first fifteen centuries of church history. Rather, they were invented by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and others. That