J. Jeffrey Tyler

There are many markers of our ecumenical age, from official dialogue among Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed to a US President of Protestant faith honoring graduates of the University of Notre Dame. In such a promising and cooperative time dare we look back to the Reformation era, when things first fell apart, when dogmatism, intolerance, and violence shattered Christian unity? Should Calvin and historic Reformed voices be heralded again, voices that excoriated idolatrous images, warped worship, and other "abominations of…