Finding God in the Shack: Seeking Truth in a Story of Evil and RedemptionBy Roger E. Olson160 p.IVP (February 2009) Roger Olson’s Finding God in the Shack (IVP Books, 2009) is an extended review and discussion of the theology articulated…
I remember a meeting several years ago with the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. He told me that the old WCC slogan, “Doctrine Divides, Service Unites,” had proven unworkable. “Actually,” he said, “it’s the other way around.…
A group of evangelical students at Erskine has recently launched a website to bring the attention of the proper church authorities to some important institutional issues there. Given Carl’s very legitimate concerns about websites, blogs and online semi-ecclesiastical petitions, I…
For many years Pravada was the primary propaganda tool of the Soviet Union. Now it is a cheerleader for Russian nationalism. It seems that Pravda has some observations about and scoldings for the U.S. It must be said, that like…
Kevin DeYoung, building on Willem Balke’s work in Calvin and the Anabaptist Radicals, looks at some of the parallels between Calvin and some of his heirs (the so-called Neo-Reformed) and the Emergent-friendly Anabaptists of today. He also offers some suggestions…
Now comes the payoff. Calvin offers a quick summary (3.4.24). This medieval Roman Catholic practice of confession is nothing but a “tyrannous law,” adding that it is “one promulgated in contempt of God” (3.4.24). Against it Calvin simply puts the…
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Carl Trueman is Professor of Church History and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Westminster Seminary. He also has forgotten more about being attacked and criticized than most of us will ever know. Over at Ref21 Dr. Trueman, one of…
Carl Trueman and David Garner recently interviewed Greg Beale. In the Fall of 2010 Dr. Beale will be coming to Westminster to teach New Testament. In the interview Dr. Beale comments on his theological heritage, his writings, postmodernism, the direction…
June 2 3.4.16-20 (1.641-647) Throughout this chapter, Calvin keeps bumping into the “power of the keys” in the medieval practice of forgiveness and, as we’re moving into in these chapters, satisfaction for sin.Hios fundamental point is that the keys are…
