Month February 2007

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Operation Homecoming, Part 4

From Makoto Fujimura’s “Refractions” essay on a New York exhibit of letters from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Here Fujimura is reflecting on the declaration of Jesus that wars will happen: “In Jesus’ realism of ‘these things must happen,’ he…

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In Appreciation of Richard Muller

It is good to see John Tweeddale introducing the work of Richard Muller — a world-class scholar who has done much to rehabilitate a healthy understanding of Reformed theology after Calvin.  I read Muller’s works on post-Reformation Reformed dogmatics early…

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A Great Big Book

John Tweeddale, a PhD student at Edinburgh working on John Owen’s commentary on Hebrews, is doing the church a great service in helping us to understand Richard Muller’s magisterial work, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. (Tweeddale blogs at The Conventicle blog (dedicated…

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A Great Little Book

This book will be lost on some Ref21 correpondents, but I’ve just been given a copy of Eric W Gritsch’s book, The Wit of Martin Luther (Fortress), a superb study of the humour of the great Reformer.

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Stating the obvious

I am reading a book on preaching to `postmoderns’ for review. There is much about it that I’m enjoying, but I find myself once again frustrated by the evangelical generalizations about postmodernism so-called.

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Operation Homecoming, Part 3

From one of Makoto Fujimura’s “Refractions” essays, writing in response to the Amish school girl who tried to offer her life for her classmates, with the implications for artists: “Here, in a miracle nobody noticed, is a bugle call also…

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A view from the cab

(Editor’s note: due to complaints we have received, we are introducing a new certification scheme for our blogs, ranging from `G’ for `Godly’ and thus suitable for all to `M’ for those blogs which contain material offensive to the spiritually…