In personal response to Derek’s question: by celebrating their wives with tangible expressions of matrimonial affection. But I hope it’s not a day too late to sound a cautionary note arising from a healthy Calvinist doctrine of total depravity: “Many a…
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…
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…
Bruce Metzger, George L. Collord Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, died on Tuesday.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
