Slavery and the Bible
My bread and butter course at Baylor University is the “America to 1877” survey class. The most troubling issue I cover in the class is slavery. What especially piques the…
Thomas Kidd
Slavery and the Bible
My bread and butter course at Baylor University is the “America to 1877” survey class. The most troubling issue I cover in the class is slavery. What especially piques the…
Edwards the Exegete
Jonathan Edwards, the great pastor-theologian of Northampton, Massachusetts, is best known for his writings on revival and religious experience, and his defense of orthodox Calvinism in the face of “Enlightenment”…
Edwards the Exegete
Jonathan Edwards, the great pastor-theologian of Northampton, Massachusetts, is best known for his writings on revival and religious experience, and his defense of orthodox Calvinism in the face of “Enlightenment”…
The Real John Knox
If you ever go to see the John Knox statue at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, you won’t come away with warm and fuzzy feelings. Knox, in statue and in Scottish…
The Real John Knox
If you ever go to see the John Knox statue at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, you won’t come away with warm and fuzzy feelings. Knox, in statue and in Scottish…
Edwards and Interpreting Providence
Like many eighteenth-century Reformed pastors, Jonathan Edwards was confident in his ability to discern God’s purposes in earthly events. For example, during a 1736 drought, he explained that God was…