Buried in the back catalogue
Christian Focus Publications have often been the butt of my jokes and this post was originally going to be called ’15 Books CFP Don’t Want You to Know About’ but, having thought about it, even I realise that would be…
Category Reformation21
Preaching & Piety: Are we Donatists?
What does the holiness of the minister have to do with the efficacy of the preached Word? Are we falling into a Donatist error (from Donatus who re-baptized clergy who had lapsed in the Great Persecution, A.D. 303-305) by insisting…
Political Affections
Joshua Hordern. Political Affections. Civic Participation and Moral Theology. Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 312 pp. $99.00 How might theology contribute to reflection upon the recognized democratic deficit of western political societies? How…
Mr Contrarian (CRT) does the Ice Bucket Challenge
A council member from – ahem – The Gospel Coalition sent me this today. We here at Reformation21 nominate the entire Gospel Coalition, all 1,000,000+ of you. Carl Trueman’s Ice-Bucket challenge: Some observations are in order: 1. We know Carl…
Disability Theology and Flannery O’Connor
Timothy J. Basselin. Flannery O’Connor: Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013. xi +146 pp. $29.95 What does it mean to speak of disability? According to the World Health Organization, over 15% of the global…
Disability Theology and Flannery O’Connor
Timothy J. Basselin. Flannery O’Connor: Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013. xi +146 pp. $29.95 What does it mean to speak of disability? According to the World Health Organization, over 15% of the global…
“Behold the blessèd Lamb of God”
L.M. (Eden) Behold the blessèd Lamb of God,Who for the world poured out his blood;He died and suffered on the treeThat men the grace of God might see. Behold the bleeding Sacrifice –Salvation at unmeasured price.He came to this dark…
Pushback on the pushback
Over at First Things Peter Leithart recently posted some comments on Gijsbert van den Brink’s article in the July issue of the International Journal of Systematic Theology. Therein, van den Brink addresses recent lack of enthusiasm in academic theology for “social…
Banner of Truth kindling
The Banner of Truth is entering the sphere of the digital reader! A first ten volumes have been released as ebooks, combining a mix of classics with more modern treatments. Among the ancients you will find Bunyan, Owen, Spurgeon and…
Cape Cod Reformed Conference
My friend Pastor James La Belle recently e-mailed me letting me know that the Presbyterian Church of Cape Cod is once again hosting its annual Cape Cod Reformed Conference in West Barnstable, Massachusetts on November 7-9, 2014. The keynote speaker…