An early draft of my recent review of Thomas Albert Howard’s brilliant monograph on European perceptions of American religion contained a paragraph which I simply could not fold in to the whole in an elegant manner. As a result, I…
It seems that apologies for absence are de rigeur on Reformation21 at the moment. I am not sure whether I should follow suit, because nasturtiums have been cast against me. First of all, I was not in the seventeenth century…
This past weekend the church that I pastor held its third annual Southern New England Reformation Conference with guest speaker Dr. Joel Beeke. The Lord was with us in a powerful way as Dr. Beeke expounded the vital subject of…
iii. Nevertheless, they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins; and, for a time, continue therein: whereby…
Although I try to hold on to the delusion that I am still young, rapid technological changes serve as a perpetual reminder of my real age. I have found myself shaking my head with the cliché, “Kids these days…” With the…
New Testament scholar par excellence Dr. Michael Kruger reviews Rob Bell’s latest book here. If the words “shooting fish in a barrel” come to mind, the reader would be correct! All kidding aside, Kruger is spot-on, careful, and, as always,…
ii. This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; upon the efficacy of the merit and…
I found this letter in David Calhoun’s magisterial 2 volume biography of Princeton Seminary. It’s the kind of book to turn to when you’re slightly miserable. Calhoun writes.. ‘The children were Dr Hodge’s pride and joy. ”His study had two…
Rob Bell, What We Talk About When We Talk About God (New York: HarperOne, 2013), 240 pp., $16.00 “Detheologizing” Christianity For those who have read Rob Bell’s other books (such as Love Wins and Velvet Elvis), the tone, disposition, and…
Last month we began to consider the mode of “persuasion” as a central aspect of our defense of Christianity. We ended our previous article with the affirmation that the Word of God must be our foundation in apologetics. That’s where…
