Welcome to the podcast, Think Bibbically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host, Sean McDow, a speaker, author, and apologetics professor at Talbot Theological Seminary, Biola University.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, professor of Christian ethics, also at Talbot School of Theology at viola University.

We're here with Professor Alan Gomes today.

Dr. Gomes is professor of historical theology at Talbot.

Has been for some time.

He's a specialist on the Reformation. In fact, we tease him

at Talbot about spending his academic career studying dead theologians, which he does not deny.

No, I don't. But this, proud of it. This is a big year for the Reformation.

It's the 500th anniversary of the Reformation when Luther nailed the 95 theses to the

door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany.

And Alan, we're delighted you can come be with us to help us explore for our listeners

a bit further some of the legacies of the Reformation, some which we've held on to pretty well and maybe others that we've held

on to not so well.

So first, tell us what are some of the most common misconceptions that you think people have about the Protestant

reformation?

Well, I think that one of the most common misconceptions is that the Protestant Reformation was fundamentally a kind of

revolution.

In other words, they turned everything upside down.

Actually, the Protestant Reformation made only a couple of course corrections but they're very important

course corrections.

So on the one hand we don't want to overstate the differences.

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