In his memoirs, Hans Küng describes giving a lecture at the time of Vatican II at which the church historians present sniggered. While he saw the Council as this great opportunity for real change, he considered the church historians’ reaction…
In his memoirs, Hans Küng describes giving a lecture at the time of Vatican II at which the church historians present sniggered. While he saw the Council as this great opportunity for real change, he considered the church historians’ reaction…
As recently as yesterday, Ref21 received an inquiry as to whether Paul Levy was historical or merely the literary construct of Second Temple Judaism as a means of explaining the reality and all-pervasiveness of evil. Hey, if it works for…
I enjoyed reading about the Carl and Mike love in at New Word Alive, 2 celebrity speakers hanging round together, it reminded me of when they first met you can watch it here Mike is the in the hat, somewhat taller now…
The recent spate of blog posts on various sites in response to Ligon Duncan’s “Bavinck vs. Nevin” post here on the Ref21 blog suggests that this is a discussion whose time has come. I can’t help but note, however, that…
Total church, pure church, simple church, gospel centred church, purpose driven church, everyday church, messy church, Spirit filled church, vintage church, mission shaped church. Doing church is the funky thing to publish books on but I think I’ve cracked something…
NOTE: Our guest blogger is Rev. Charlie Abbate, pastor of Cornerstone Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Ambler, Pennsylvania. “Well what’s going to happen to her?” I asked. “You know what’ll happen to her,” my wife answered back. “Then we’re going to…
In the last couple of days I’ve read through ‘John Stott – A portrait by his friends’, edited by Chris Wright and published by IVP. There are some fascinating insights into the man and it’s an excellent read. I profoundly…
News has reached us in the UK that just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Christian bookstore, there’s another festschrift in the water weighing in at 400 pages! This time it’s DA Carson’s turn. It’s…
In his introduction to the Psalter, Calvin discusses truly Reformed worship and contrasts it with the worship practices of the Roman church. In that context, he says the following: “Now this cannot be done unless we are taught to understand…
