The Baby, the Bathwater, The Reformation and Mum

Of course the Reformation was a glorious triumph and a much needed return to the Biblical Gospel, but are there ways in which we have thrown out the baby with the bath water?

Jones and Wilson (Reformed Christians) seem right to suggest that any talk of genuine Church authority immediately makes Protestants think of abuses, inquisitions and popes. In an era of thousands of splintered denominations and when anyone can set up a church in their own home, worry about Church authority is like lonely orphans stubbornly avoiding Mum, they say. Mum (Mother Church) has been thrown out with the bathwater; baby sits alone.

Jones, Douglas, and Wilson, Douglas, Angels in the Architecture: a Protestant Vision for Middle Earth (Moscow, Canon Press, 1998), p93.