Howard Sloan at the Heidelberg Reformation Association reviews the book.
Recovering the Reformed Confession
VanDrunen Reviews "With Heart and Mouth"
In the latest Ordained Servant. There are also essays by Bob Letham, John Fesko among others that look terrific. The main site for the OS is here. (HT: LO)
Martin Reviews YRR
At AH
New Confessional Presbyterian Journal Coming In Sept (Dv)
The latest CPJ should be available next month. This is a substantial journal that bridges the gap between the purely popular, the purely ecclesiastical, and the purely academic. In the spirit of another time, the CPJ is accessible, intelligent, unapologetically Reformed, and churchly (which is . . . Continue reading →
Princeton, Fuller, and WTS: Breaking the Pattern
Carl Trueman has a thoughtful essay on the struggle of confessional seminaries to fulfill the vocation to to serve the church faithfully , to meet the highest academic standards, and to avoid the pattern of decline into broad evangelicalism.
If You Want to Know About John Owen
Carl Trueman is your man. I know it’s unusual to see me flogging someone else’s book. That’s why you should pay attention when I do so. This is a really good book. Why? Because Carl is an excellent scholar who . . . Continue reading →
Once More: Lutheran or Reformed?
10. What is the difference between the law and the gospel?
Flash: Reformed Writer Uses Two Kingdoms
I’m working an essay on the history of covenant theology for a collection edited by Herman Selderhuis to be published by Brill in 2009. I just ran across something that I should have noticed, thought about or remembered years ago but didn’t. . . . Continue reading →
Recovering The Reformed Confession: the Table Of Contents
There have been a few requests to see the table of contents. Here it is:
Recovering the Reformed Confession: Available Now
It’s available now from The Bookstore at WSC. Here’s a sample chapter. Early comment on Recovering the Reformed Confession: At a time when “all that is solid melts in the air” and distinct colors fade to gray, R. Scott Clark reminds us . . . Continue reading →
Reformed and Evangelical Redux
Josh writes to ask how confessionally Reformed Christians should relate to contemporary (as distinct from it’s use as a synonym of “historic, confessional Protestant”) evangelicals?
They Aren't Really Addressing the Issue Yet-updated
Lee surveys some responses to this discussion about how Reformed folk should relate to contemporary evangelicalism. None of these responses really gets to the issue of definition. There’s a great body of secondary lit (and this list is very selective and omits some . . . Continue reading →
Lutheran or Reformed? You Make the Call!
This is why so much depends on the benefit of justification, and it is rightly denominated the article on which the church either stands or falls. For the fundamental question that arises in this connection is this: What is the way that . . . Continue reading →
Are Reformed "Evangelical" or "Evangelicals"?
Lee Irons raises the question of the relations between Reformed Christians and American evangelicals. Much of this discussion comes down to definitions and I don’t recall that Lee offered a definition. In the immortal words of President Nixon, ” let me say . . . Continue reading →
Recovering the Reformed Confession: The Interview
Thanks to the CTC guys for inviting me to play with them on the most recent CTC podcast to discuss Recovering the Reformed Confession. We had a wide-ranging discussion (because it’s a wide-ranging book) and it was good clean fun. This is . . . Continue reading →
Why the Focus on the Confessions?
Re-post from Jan 07 from the old HB: — Nancy and “William Twisse” (the first prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly lives!) have both written to the HB to ask why it focuses so much on the Reformed confessions. Nancy writes: I am . . . Continue reading →
Abraham, Moses, and Baptism
I’m in the midst of an interesting discussion of baptism with a friend, who has Baptist convictions but who understands Reformed theology better than many Reformed folks. He is quite sympathetic to historic and confessional Reformed theology. For example, he affirms that . . . Continue reading →
WCF in Tagalog
Thanks to Nollie!
Re-Publication of the Covenant of Works (1)
I’m so committed to the doctrine of republication that I’m republishing a series of posts from the old HB from Jan ’07 beginning with this one. — As Mike Horton acknowledges in his recent work on covenant theology, one of the more . . . Continue reading →
Calvin500: The Blog
David Hall has the inaugural post.