Office Hours

Office Hours: Stephen Nichols On Christian Education In The Late Modern Age

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• R. Scott Clark

on March 21, 2016

One might not know it to look at them now but it was orthodox Christians who built some of the greatest educational institutions in the world. The universities in Paris and Oxford were founded by Christians who believed the historic Christian faith. . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: The Holy Spirit In Paul’s Epistles

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• R. Scott Clark

on April 4, 2016

When Reformed and Presbyterian Christians think of Paul we might think first of Paul as the New Testament theologian of grace, of salvation, of unconditional election but he might just easily be called the theologian of the Holy Spirit. Where we might . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: The Holy Spirit In Jesus’ Ministry

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• R. Scott Clark

on April 18, 2016

Scripture teaches and therefore all Christians confess that our Lord Jesus is true God and true man. As God the Son incarnate we understand that that he has been in communion with the God the Spirit from all eternity. It is one . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Mike Horton On Core Christianity

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• R. Scott Clark

on May 2, 2016 | 2 Comments

Our English word core is comes from the Latin word for heart. We use it to refer to that which is most central. The Christian faith has a core, essentials, without which one does not have a Christian faith but what are . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: The Spirit-Breathed Inerrant Scriptures

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• R. Scott Clark

on May 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

In the Nicene Creed (325, 381 AD) Christians everywhere confess that the Holy Spirit “spoke by the prophets.” Ancient Christianity was marked by the highest regard for the Scriptures as God’s Word, given by the Spirit through the prophets and apostles. Since . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours With Senator Ben Sasse

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• R. Scott Clark

on June 13, 2016 | 1 Comment

For Reformed Christians there has never been any question whether Christ is Lord over all things. When the Dutch theologian, pastor, and Prime Minister Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) declared in his 1898 Stone Lectures at Princeton that there is not one square inch . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Student To Pastor To Pastor-Teacher

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• R. Scott Clark

on July 11, 2016

Office Hours usually focuses on the process, i.e., on what the faculty says to the students and to others about what scripture says and what it means. That is as it should be because that is what we do at Westminster Seminary . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Chad Van Dixhoorn On The Westminster Assembly

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• R. Scott Clark

on July 25, 2016 | 4 Comments

If you are Reformed or on your way to becoming Reformed you have probably heard and possibly read the Westminster Confession of Faith and perhaps of the Westminster Shorter Catechism. If you’re more experienced you might even have some experience of the . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: German Influences On Charles Hodge’s Theology

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• R. Scott Clark

on August 8, 2016 | 1 Comment

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812 in order to train men for pastoral ministry in the Presbyterian Church. Within a century of her founding, however, those features that had helped to make old Princeton a bulwark of Reformed orthodoxy had been . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Pastoral Ministry And The Grace Of The Doctrines

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• R. Scott Clark

on August 22, 2016

Westminster Seminary California was founded more than 30 years ago principally to prepare men for pastoral ministry. The seminary educates students from all across the world to fulfill a variety of callings but they are still committed to that original vision because . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours With Steve Baugh: Hebrews 12:14 Might Not Mean What You Think It Does

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 5, 2016 | 3 Comments

Academic life at Westminster Seminary California does not happen only in the classroom. It happens in prayer, it happens in the chapel, it happens in casual hallway discussions, and when one faculty member walks out of his office and into a colleague’s . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Who Is Jesus?

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• R. Scott Clark

on September 19, 2016

Until very recently most people probably had some idea who they thought Jesus is. The Jews regarded him as a traitorous blasphemer. Muslims regard him as a failed prophet (who did not die nor was raised) who was succeeded by Mohammad. Liberal . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours Season 8: Reformation 500—Backgrounds

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• R. Scott Clark

on October 17, 2016

This is season 8 of Office Hours and we are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. In this episode we look  at the background to the Reformation in the medieval church, how the medieval church set the stage for the Reformation . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours Season 8: Reformation 500—Definitions

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• R. Scott Clark

on October 31, 2016 | 1 Comment

This is season 8 of Office Hours and we are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. This is part 2 of a three-part introduction to the Reformation. In part 1 we looked briefly at the background to the Reformation in the . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours Season 8: Reformation 500—How Martin Luther Became A Protestant

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• R. Scott Clark

on November 14, 2016

The medieval and late medieval Christian lived in a theological world in which salvation was merely possible and never certain either in this life or in death. It was never more uncertain than it was in the two centuries leading up the Reformation. Continue reading →

Office Hours Season 8: Godfrey On Luther (1)

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• R. Scott Clark

on November 28, 2016

At the turn of the 21st century there was a great deal of discussion about who were the most important figures in the last 1000 years. In 2017 we will celebrate the life and significance of one of those epochal figures: Martin . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Godfrey On Luther (2)

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• R. Scott Clark

on December 12, 2016 | 1 Comment

At the turn of the 21st century there was a great deal of discussion about who were the most important figures in the last 1000 years. In 2017 we will celebrate the life and significance of one of those epochal figures: Martin . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Campegius Vitringa

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• R. Scott Clark

on December 26, 2016

God’s people have been reading and studying His Word for a very long time but much of that work is lost to most of us because it remains untranslated from Latin (0r Greek). The Reformed tradition begins with a profound commitment to . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours Season 8: What’s In A Word? Sola Gratia

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• R. Scott Clark

on January 9, 2017

In confessional Protestant circles we use some short hand Latin phrases that we might not all understand, even though we use them frequently. Sola gratia is one of those. These expressions go back to the very beginning of the Reformation. Andreas Bodenstein . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Where Are They Now? How Ted Hamilton Became A Preacher

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• R. Scott Clark

on January 23, 2017

Perhaps you have seen on television or in the movies successful, wealthy professionals driving, surfing, and generally enjoying what looks like a magical life in Southern California. Television glitz aside, there is some reality to that portrait and one place it is . . . Continue reading →