We maintain to start with that, when God raised up Luther and others, who held forth a torch to light us into the way of salvation on on whose ministry our churches are founded and built, those heads of doctrine in which . . . Continue reading →
Academic Stuff
Engaging with Barth
Is a very promising volume (containing essays by WSC’s own Mike Horton and WSC alumnus Ryan Glomsrud).
First Virtual Online Library of Medieval Works
Thanks to WSC student D. J. Goodwiler for pointing me to this Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts hosted at UCLA (HT: Biblical Studies and Technological Tools).
And Now a Book Burning?
Edward Feser has a strange story about a 4-volume encyclopedia on Christian Civilization published by Wiley-Blackwell has been recalled and is to be destroyed despite the fact that, according “to the encyclopedia’s editor, George Thomas Kurian, the set had been copy-edited, fact-checked, . . . Continue reading →
Providence Christian College Names New President
Congratulations to Dr J. Derek Halvorson and welcome to Southern California!(HT: Dominic Aquila)
Alan Jacobs Remembering W. H. Auden
In Books and Culture.
Why Did Arminianism "Win"?
Sometime back Howard wrote to ask, “How and when did Arminianism become the predominate view?” That’s a good question. First, we should distinguish between Jacob Arminius (James Hermanzoon) and the Arminians (or the Remonstrants). Relative to the conclusions Arminian/Remonstrant theology later reached, Arminius . . . Continue reading →
Open Theism and Socinianism
Martin explains the connection.
On Replying to Moralists (2)
Part 1 When I say “moralists” I mean primarily the doctrine that God justifies the sanctified because they are sanctified or that we are justified by grace and cooperation with grace. This is the bottom line of the NPP. Justification is re-defined . . . Continue reading →
The Old Perspective on Paul
Most modern NT study of Paul tends to be myopic. The “history of exegesis” tends to go back to the 1970s and occasionally a little farther. This isn’t my assessment, it’s Tom Wright’s. I agree with him. I tried recently to do . . . Continue reading →
On Writing Well
At Justin Taylor’s BTW.
Arius and Prov 8
Todd has an excellent introduction.
Early Reformed Orthodoxy on the Eternally Begotten Son
Here’s a nice summary by Donald John MacLean.
Technology and Text
Alan Jacobs blogs on this topic and has, as always, an interesting post about what e-texts can and can’t do.
The Author of the Belgic Confession on Justification
Wes Bredenhof is surveying Guido (Guy) de Bres’ 1555 reply to Rome, The Staff of the Christian Faith. This is an interesting document as it’s mostly a series of patristic quotations showing how the Reformation agreed with the early fathers—thereby subverting the . . . Continue reading →
An Anabaptist Doctrine of Revelation
Dan’s at it again. He’s been reading sources.
Clark and Schilder on "The Categorical Distinction"
Wes has some helpful source material on this topic. He begins with a survey on my chapter on the distinction between theology as God knows it (theologia archetypa) and theology as it is revealed to us (theologia ectypa). In the second half of . . . Continue reading →
Trueman on Luther as Pastoral Revolutionary
Thanks to the Reformed Fellowship (HT: Confessional Outhouse)
Of Remonstrants and Rationalists
Bavinck had some interesting things to say.
Neo-Barthians v Neo-Orthodox
This is a really interesting piece by Erskine College prof. William B. Evans at Ref21. Barth’s dialectical method makes him inherently difficult. He can always be quoted on two sides of an issue. I also agree with Evans that, in the end, . . . Continue reading →