Saints and Sinners Unplugged is a podcast hosted by Ken Jones, whom you know from the White Horse Inn radio show, Aldo Leon, Jose Prado, and David Menendez. Each of these men is a pastor of a congregation in the Miami metro area. As they say on their website, the podcast “exists to exists to provide Gospel conversations to a modern church desperately in need of returning to the basic message of grace through Jesus Christ, our Salvior.” In these two episodes we discussed the relevance of Heidelberg Catechism for Christian life in 2021. In episode 1 we talked about the background and origins of the catechism and some related titles. See the resources below for more on this. In the second episode we discussed the most significant themes in the Reformed Reformation that appeared in the Heidelberg, especially the covenant of grace, the distinction between law and gospel, and the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. We even got the question the republication of the covenant of works.
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- The Ecumenical Creeds
- The Reformed Confessions
- The Heidelberg Catechism
- Recovering the Reformed Confession (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008).
- Introduction To The Heidelberg Catechism
- Olevianus: The Reformed Retain The Distinction Between Law And Gospel
- Resources On the Distinction Between Law and Gospel
- Resources For Those Beginning To Study Covenant Theology
- Resources On The Unity Of The Covenant Of Grace
- Caspar Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant: The Double Benefit of Christ. Rutherford Studies in Historical Theology, ed. David F. Wright (Edinburgh: Rutherford House, 2005). Reprinted 2008 by Reformation Heritage Books in the Historical-Theological Studies series.
- Caspar Olevianus, An Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed, trans. Lyle Bierma, Classic Reformed Theology Vol. 2 (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2010).
- “God the Son and the Covenant of Grace: Caspar Olevianus On Eternal Generation, and the Substance of the Covenant of Grace,” in Credo Magazine volume 10.4 (November 29, 2020).
- “Law and Gospel in Early Reformed Orthodoxy: Hermeneutical Conservatism in Olevianus’ Commentary on Romans,” in Jordan J. Ballor, David S. Sytsma and Jason Zuidema editors, Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Muller on the Maturation of a Theological Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2013).
- “The Reception of Paul in Heidelberg: The Pauline Commentaries of Caspar Olevianus”in ed. R. Ward Holder, A Companion to Paul in the Reformation (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 297–318.
- “Olevianus and the Old Perspective on Paul: A Preliminary Report,” The Confessional Presbyterian 4 (2008): 15–26.
- Caspar Olevianus, Firm Foundation: An Aid To Interpreting the Heidelberg Catechism, trans. Lyle Bierma (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995).
- Zacharias Ursinus, Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, trans. G. Williard (Cincinnati: Elm Street Publishing, 1888).
- Catecismo de Heidelberg
- [with Dr. Joel Beeke], “Ursinus, Oxford and the Westminster Divines,” The Westminster Confession into the 21st Century: Essays in Remembrance of the 350th Anniversary of the Publication of the Westminster Confession of Faith, 3 vol. ed. Ligon Duncan (Ross-Shire, Scotland: Mentor, 2003), 2.1–32.
- “The Catholic-Calvinist Trinitarianism of Caspar Olevian,” Westminster Theological Journal 61 (1999): 15–39.
- “The Authority of Reason in the Later Reformation: Scholasticism in Caspar Olevian and Antoine de La Faye,” Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment, ed., Carl Trueman and R. Scott Clark (Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, 1999), 111–26.
R. Scott Clark
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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Hi Dr Clark and Greetings:
Katekisimu ya Heidelberg Utangulizi
SIKUYA BWANA YA KWANZA (1)
1. Je! Ni raha gani pekee katika maisha na katika kifo?
Kwamba mimi, na mwili na roho, maishani na mauti, sio wangu, lakini ni wa mwokozi wangu mwaminifuYesu Kristo, ambaye kwa damu yake ya thamani ameridhika kabisa kwa dhambi zangu zote, na alinikomboa kutoka kwa nguvu zote ya shetani; na kwa hivyo inanihifadhi kwamba bila mapenzi ya baba yangu Mbinguni hakuna hata nywele inayo weza kuanguka kutoka kichwa changu, kwa kweli, kwamba vitu vyote lazima vifanye kazi pamoja kwa wokovu wangu. Kwa hivyo, kwa Roho wake Mtakatifu, Yeye pia anan hakikishia uzima wa milele, na hunifanya niwe tayari kwa moyo wote na kuwa tayari kutoka sasa kuishi kwake.
Warumi 14:7-8 , 1Wakorinto 6:19 , 1Wakorinto 3:23 , 1Petro 1:18-19 , 1Yohana 1:7; 2:2 , 1Yohana 3:8 , Yohana 6:39 , Mathayo 10:29-30 ,. Luka 21:18, Warumi 8:28, 2Wakorinto 1:21-22, Waefeso 1:13-14, Warumi 8:16, Warumi 8:1
This is from a new translation of the Heidelberg Catechism in Swahili, completed by two pastors ministering in Three Forms of Unity churches in Kenya.
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