In September 1896, Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield opened the academic year at Princeton Theological Seminary with an address titled “Christian Supernaturalism.” [1] His intent was to place his finger on the decisive issue of his generation with respect to Christianity and the…
The doctrine of the covenant of redemption (also known as “the pactum salutis” and “the counsel of peace”) is a beautiful doctrine. It concerns the eternal purpose of the blessed Trinity to communicate the bliss of his triune life to…
Franciscus Junius. The Mosaic Polity. Translated by Todd M. Rester. Edited by Andrew M. McGinnis. Sources in Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law. Grand Rapids: Christian’s Library Press, 2015. $14.95 Everybody knows that when the Protestant Reformers set out to…
Ever the reformer, Luther couldn’t resist using his last will and testament to take a final stab at perceived corruption and advance his vision for a better way. The final target of his reforming efforts, however, was not the contemporary…
Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman, eds. Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age. Nashville: B&H, 2015., xxiii + 397pp. US $44.99 Often overlooked in the recent conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has been the recovery of ecclesiology…
Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman, eds. Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age. Nashville: B&H, 2015., xxiii + 397pp. US $44.99 Often overlooked in the recent conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has been the recovery of ecclesiology…
A class of churchmen is emerging in Reformed circles that excites me. They are called Reformed catholics (or Reformed irenics), the term preferred by many of the great Protestant scholastics who didn’t care much for the term “Calvinist”. Reformed catholics…
This is the seventh post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China’s emerging Reformed community (see part 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and 6). Third Statement: Incarnation as the Assumption of a Body (Alone?) Despite his apparent anthropological dualism, our brother…
If a preacher had one sermon to preach to unbelievers he would likely preach something that follows the Apostolic pattern in the book of Acts. But what about when faced with the chance to give just one message to those…
I recently attended a college ministry event in which a number of students gave testimonies about how their lives have been impacted. As is so often the case, it was enormously encouraging and spoke of great saving fruit arising from…
