Thanks to Laurence O’Donnell (Calvin Seminary PhD student in systematics) for the heads up regarding the new Bavinck Institute website. They are featuring Ron Gleason’s to-be-released bio of Bavinck himself and an online journal, The Bavinck Review. Well done!
Academic Stuff
Second and Third Thoughts on Edwards
Few figures are as electrifying and divisive in the study of American religious history as Jonathan Edwards. To many he is and can be only St Jonathan, the paradigm of theology, piety, and practice. To others the story is more complicated. It . . . Continue reading →
Hurtado: The Uniqueness of the Resurrection
Nice essay on the early Christian doctrine of the resurrection at Slate.com (HT: Jon Moersch).
News—Erskine College Officials Obtain TRO Against ARP Synod
The Aquila Report has news that the Erskine College has obtained a temporary (10-day) restraining order preventing the ARP Synod from implementing its plan for reorganizing the college and its board.
Iain's Rules for Writing Well
At Ref21. (HT: Durell Flood)
Reformation History Resource: Zwingli Online
Zwingli is the forgotten Reformer. Hated by the Lutherans as a “sacramentarian” moralist and not terribly favored by the mature Reformed Reformation, he’s the ugly step son of the Reformation. Here’s a blog (operated by whom?) which collects Zwingli resources. (HT: Jim West)
Physics Prof Busts Fake Schools
Most of them seem to be overseas but one hopes that when he’s done there, he’ll turn his attention to equally dubious schools (some of them religious in nature and some of them ostensibly Reformed) in the USA. He has more links . . . Continue reading →
Anselm on the Necessity of the Incarnation
Thanks to WSC MA (Historical Theology) student Jennifer Petrik for posting this bit from Cur Deus Homo? (Why the God-Man?)
Reuter Edition of Ursinus Online!
There is an amazing electronic text of Ursinus’ Opera online. Thanks to Sebastian Heck for pointing us to this amazing resource.
Was the Covenant of Works Gracious?
It is widely held in the modern period that it was. To deny that strikes many today as absurd, as impossible. The 16th and 17th century Reformed writers were not so troubled by that idea since they had much less difficulty than . . . Continue reading →
The Family of Jesus on the Kingdom of God
From Eusebius’ Historia Ecclesiae 3.19-20: But when this same Domitian had commanded that the descendants of David should be slain, an ancient tradition says that some of the heretics brought accusation against the descendants of Jude (said to have been a brother . . . Continue reading →
Happy Birthday St Augustine
Today is St Augustine’s birthday (354 AD). In that connection I should mention the upcoming publication of Simonetta Carr’s biography of Augustine for children. Few figures in Western history are as important as Augustine. He is one of the early church fathers . . . Continue reading →
Grammar Girl Helps with "Which" and "That"
Confused by when to use “which” and when to use “that”? Here’s the transcript from the latest Grammar Girl podcast. Here’s a freebie for Greek and Latin students. If you understand the difference between the nominative case and the accusative and dative . . . Continue reading →
Post-Reformation Bonanza
One of the great problems in the study of post-Reformation Reformed orthodoxy (scholasticism) is the relative unavailability of primary sources. There is the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts, to which Westminster Seminary California blessedly has a subscription (thanks to our donors!). . . . Continue reading →
Heidegger Now Available Online!
Special thanks to Wes White for pointing us to this most valuable resource: volume 1 of J. H. Heidegger (1633-98), Corpus theologiae christianae is now online. I’m downloading it now.
A Cultural Warrior’s Meditation for Reformation Day
A recent correspondent pointed me to a bulletinsert offered by the PCA Christian Education and Publications Committee. The theme of the insert is the “Reformation, Calvin, and Government.” There are two questions here. The first is historical, the second is pastoral or . . . Continue reading →
Pierre DuMoulin on the Knowledge of God
More great stuff at that other HB: the Heinrich Bullinger blog.
Old School Dutch Reformed On Two Covenants
Shane has it at the Reformed Reader.
Antonius Walaeus De Natura Dei (On the Nature of God)
Because, in our late modern, liquid, age, relational categories trump all others and because we’re given to nominalism now, it’s sometimes considered downright provocative to claim that God has a nature. The older Reformed writers, however, spoke this frequently. On the Heinrich . . . Continue reading →
Cautions About Using Google Books
From an essay in the Chronicles of Higher Education. (HT: John Bales)