Looking for good anti-Reformation books

[Potato1237]

Honestly, this might sound like a snide remark and I don’t mean it to sound that way…but the Catechism of the Catholic Church is the best anti-reformation book in existence, imo. It gives us such a definitive understanding of true Christianity, which as result leads to proper rebuttals of these modern reformed ideas.

But another one I keep hearing about is called “Faith of the Early Fathers”. It’s a 3 volume set by Jurgens on the early church. The reader can compare the early Church to the reformed Church and do the math from there. If reformed folks saw how truly Catholic the early Church was, it would call into serious question their own soteriology.

I must say, John Piper disagrees, and with all due respect, he is foolish for disagreeing.
He claims we are in a better position to know Christ than the church fathers. He also makes an intellectually dishonest statement claiming that the fathers did not have the new testement. This is relating to your comment on people from reformed theology, sometimes, certain people twist things to convince themselves that their theology is correct.

 

[Lenten_ashes]

I must say, John Piper disagrees, and with all due respect, he is foolish for disagreeing.
He claims we are in a better position to know Christ than the church fathers. He also makes an intellectually dishonest statement claiming that the fathers did not have the new testement. This is relating to your comment on people from reformed theology, sometimes, certain people twist things to convince themselves that their theology is correct.

LOL, the Fathers quote scripture(NT as well) over and over and over again. And anybody with a high school education and knowledge of the gospels can read their work and discern just how scripturally literate they actually were.

Piper should do himself a favor and remove his foggy, reformed glasses and objectively start reading some of this stuff. I’m only somewhat familiar with him so I don’t know the extent of his anti-Catholic vitriol.

 

[Potato1237]

LOL, the Fathers quote scripture(NT as well) over and over and over again. And anybody with a high school education and knowledge of the gospels can read their work and discern just how scripturally literate they actually were.

Piper should do himself a favor and remove his foggy, reformed glasses and objectively start reading some of this stuff. I’m only somewhat familiar with him so I don’t know the extent of his anti-Catholic vitriol.

In terms of anti Catholicism, he is not quite as rabid as Jack chick or James White, but he certainly makes false and ill informed claims about what the Church believes. (See video: John Piper and the Pope.)

The icing on the cake is the bizarre theology he essentially created called “Christian hedonism”. He also claims that putting the authority of man over scripture is “dangerous”.

 

[simspt]

As we are “celebrating” 499 years of Protestantism, I figured I need to read up on the subject so I can better argue the Catholic position on why the Reformation was bad for Christianity as a whole. While the Church needed to be reformed, there was no need for a full blown revolution and I feel as if the Reformation has done more harm than good to the western world. Are there any good books out there that highlights this view point or do I need to eventually write one myself?

Alister E. McGrath, Reformation Thought: An Introduction, 4th edition (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,
2012). McGrath surveys Reformation views on justification, predestination, scripture,
sacraments, church. In other words, the focus is not on individuals but on
theological themes. He prefaces this analysis with a sizable and excellent study of the
roots of the Reformation. Simple, clear.

Carter Lindberg, The Reformation Theologians: An Introduction to the Theology of the Early Modern
Period, The Great Theologians (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002). An excellent collection of
brief essays surveying the key Reformation theologians and Reformation theologies.
This is a good complement to McGrath’s study since it focuses more on individuals
than themes.

Alister E. McGrath, Iustitia Dei: A History of the Doctrine of Justification, 2nd ed. (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Donald K. McKim, ed., The Westminster Handbook

good bibliography on the reformation

dspace2.creighton.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10504/84484/Reform1.pdf?sequence=1

Some more good ones from called to communion website

Catholic Perspectives of Protestantism

The Catholic Controversy: St. Francis De Sales’ Defense of the Faith, by St. Francis De Sales
The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism, by Louis Bouyer
How the Reformation Happened, by Hilaire Belloc
Three Reformers, by Jacques Maritain
One and Holy, by Karl Adam
Symbolism: Exposition of the Doctrinal Differences between Catholics and Protestants
as Evidenced by Their Symbolical Writings, by Johann Adam Möhler

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