Neuhaus versus Wright
`The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor.’ So goes a line from Mark Knopfler’s `Ode to Sonny Liston.’ Well, two heavyweight bruisers of more recent vintage are engaged in a slugfest over at First Things: N…
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Gagnon on the Heidelberg Catechism
Robert Gagnon, who knows first-hand the loving tolerance and respect for dissident scholarship of certain circles, has chimed in very helpfully on the Heidelberg Catechism issue here.
Gagnon on the Heidelberg Catechism
Robert Gagnon, who knows first-hand the loving tolerance and respect for dissident scholarship of certain circles, has chimed in very helpfully on the Heidelberg Catechism issue here.
I hate to agree with Jack Rogers……
but I do think the PCUSA dropping of the explicit reference to homosexuality in Heidelberg Catechism 87 does represent a better translation of the original German than the 1967 gloss/addition. Of course, we can have our suspicions about why the…
I hate to agree with Jack Rogers……
but I do think the PCUSA dropping of the explicit reference to homosexuality in Heidelberg Catechism 87 does represent a better translation of the original German than the 1967 gloss/addition. Of course, we can have our suspicions about why the…
Anglicans not doing the Lambeth walk
`Any evening, any day, any time you’re Lambeth way, you’ll find ’em all doin’ the Lambeth walk!’ So goes the old song my granny taught me; but not any more, apparently. According to The Daily Torygraph, some bishops will be…
Anglicans not doing the Lambeth walk
`Any evening, any day, any time you’re Lambeth way, you’ll find ’em all doin’ the Lambeth walk!’ So goes the old song my granny taught me; but not any more, apparently. According to The Daily Torygraph, some bishops will be…
Death of a Church Historian
Sorry to disappoint all my ‘friends’ out there. This is not my demise but that of one of the greatest church historians Britain ever produced, a man whose erudite writings opened up the world of the early church for many…
Death of a Church Historian
Sorry to disappoint all my ‘friends’ out there. This is not my demise but that of one of the greatest church historians Britain ever produced, a man whose erudite writings opened up the world of the early church for many…
Summer Reading
Del’s asked about summer reading. Here’s mine: Theology: Johannes Vanderkemp, The Heidelberg Catechism; David F Wells, The Courage to be Protestant. Two books on my passions: Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics. After Emil…