When Bellicosity is No Virtue and Other Beauties

It depends, of course, upon who is being or deemed “bellicose” doesn’t it? John Muether has a helpful meditation on this question in the latest issue of the Nicotine Theological Journal (“thus think, and smoke tobacco”—Ralph Erskine (1685-1752; in “Smoking Spiritualized“). The issue also contains a lovely address given by my friend and colleague, David VanDrunen on “Bearing One Another’s Burdens” (from the Westminster Seminary California Thirtieth Anniversary celebration). This issue also contains a helpfully provocative essay by Robert W. Patterson on the weakening of Presbyterian polity and the implications of such a development. There are other reasons to read this and every issue of the NTJ but these are few that occurred to me today as I finished NTJ 14.1 (Winter) 2010.

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    R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

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