New Vatican File
After a brief hiatus, we have resumed the Vatican Files series. The latest entry by our brother concerns purgatory. It is a helpful overview of this doctrine and what it means for Christianity. Enjoy!
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The Vatican Files no. 5
One of the prerogatives of the teaching office of the Pope is to hold the cathedra Petri (Peter’s chair). St. Peter’s basilica hosts the relics of a chair that tradition traces back to the apostle Peter (though, like most relics,…
The Vatican Files no. 5
One of the prerogatives of the teaching office of the Pope is to hold the cathedra Petri (Peter’s chair). St. Peter’s basilica hosts the relics of a chair that tradition traces back to the apostle Peter (though, like most relics,…
Trueman on Throwing Books
Click here for the audio of Dr. Trueman’s (excellent) lecture on the King James Bible, given at Westminster Seminary’s Library yesterday. The title alone should whet your appetite: “Throwing the Book at His Enemies: King James I and His Bible”
Zwischen den Zeiten: D G Hart on the OPC and dialectical identities
Reflections on Between the Times: the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Transition, 1945-1990 (Willow Grove: OPC) This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. To mark the occasion, well-known scholarly historian, Reformed pundit and OPC…
Zwischen den Zeiten: D G Hart on the OPC and dialectical identities
Reflections on Between the Times: the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Transition, 1945-1990 (Willow Grove: OPC) This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. To mark the occasion, well-known scholarly historian, Reformed pundit and OPC…
Modern Debate Over Ancient Texts
[Editor’s Note: This is the first post Rev. Wynne wrote in response to Dr. Evans, which was inadvertently removed last week. We repost it here in its entirety.] Dr. Evans has recently graced this forum with some thought provoking comments…
ANE in an AC World
I want to thank Dr. Evans for his extended and thoughtful response to my recent post on Scripture and the ancient Near East. In that post, I expressed my concern that his appeals to ANE data for reading Genesis 1…
Ancient Texts and their Modern Appropriation
There have been a number of responses to my recent Ref21 posts on creation and confessional hermeneutic. Some have been little more than disappointing expressions of the old “slippery slope” and “camel’s nose under the edge of the tent” argument,…
We’re living in the Twilight Zone
Yesterday I went out for coffee with a new guy in our church. He was asking about what I’d been reading and, for some unknown reason, I started to talk to him about the whole James Macdonald/ TD Jakes gate.…