
Calvin contra Rome on Scripture (Introduction)
I intend to offer, over the next several weeks, a four part series on Calvin’s response to Rome’s doctrine of Scripture as discovered in the fourth session of the Council…

I intend to offer, over the next several weeks, a four part series on Calvin’s response to Rome’s doctrine of Scripture as discovered in the fourth session of the Council…

The sixteenth-century papacy never succeeded in setting fire to Martin Luther, much to its chagrin. Support from a string of Saxon princes and political events in the Holy Roman Empire…

So wrote Luther to Erasmus in his Bondage of the Will. Few if any phrases from Luther have been more misunderstood. One regularly sees Luther’s words invoked to emphasize the…

In scholastic theological discourse, ‘moral suasion’ and ‘physical influence’ represent two different ways of getting someone to do something. If my goal were, say, getting my four-year-old daughter to the…

We tend, perhaps, to think of divine love as something akin to, albeit much greater than, human love. We tend, in other words, to assume that God’s sentiments towards us…

The details of the story are fairly well known: Noah’s descendants, still within Noah’s lifetime (by Calvin’s reckoning), pooled their various talents and employed their common tongue towards the end…

Our local veterinary clinic — where our dog, for reasons I’d rather not relate, is not welcome — has a letter board on their grounds which typically displays humorous messages…

Despite its premature appearance on Mark Jones’s Top Ten List Of Books That Will Never Make A Top Ten List, tomorrow marks the official release of Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland:…

The flood waters having receded, and Noah and family having disembarked from the ark, it was back to business as usual on earth in a number of discernable ways. Thus…

Noah’s first deed upon exiting the ark — at least as recorded in Scripture — was to build an altar and offer unto God sacrifices from the “clean” animals and…