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Another book review linked to…..

Alan Davey is a Welsh missionary in France, he once proclaimed his amazement at me being Presbyterian saying to my friend ‘Levy wasn’t clever enough to be a Presbyterian’.  However, Alan has written a class book review which made me laugh…

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The catholic Luther: two resources

I thought I might interrupt Ref21’s ongoing series on John Wesley’s view of Christ’s descent into hell by mentioning a couple of resources related to another uncontroversial theologian: Martin Luther. These two books have very different foci–one concerns Luther’s understanding…

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John Henry Newman: A Biography

Ian Ker. John Henry Newman: A Biography. 1988. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Due to his beatification by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, there is a renewed interest in the life and thought of John Henry Newman. Among Protestants especially…

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Still Dissenting to the Descent

I have greatly appreciated the interaction on this blog regarding the descent clause in the Apostles’ Creed: “he descended into hell.”  For the sake of late comers, this began with my post explaining how the church I serve omits this…

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Freedom is a joke. Specifically, a satirical joke

The recent terrorist attack in Paris highlights perhaps the great political dilemma of the current age, that of Western freedoms being used to destroy Western freedoms.  But perhaps just as importantly, its target was perfectly chosen.  Democracy requires more than…

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Shoehorning

It may have been ever thus, but there seem to be an increasing number of books – often from the fields of biblical or systematic theology – that present themselves as having discovered or provided the overarching theme of the…