Category Reformation21

One of the many books I enjoyed reading this summer was Original Sin, by Alan Jacobs.  The book included this gem of a quotation from novelist Rebecca West: “If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on…

Many of you may already know of this, but in case you don’t . . . The folks at Christianity Today put out a wonderful bulletin insert called Glimpses of Christian History.  It’s a four-page, full color piece they put…

Katie Galli at CT interviews Kevin DeYoung about his recent book (co-authored with Ted Kluck), Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion.

Interesting interview here with Thabiti Anyabwile.

Keith Mathison of Ligonier has put together a blog post linking to the primary documents in the debate between Charles Hodge and John Williamson Nevin on the Lord’s Supper, resulting from Nevin’s 1846 book, The Mystical Presence.

After three months on sabbatical, I am back to blogging again.  I start with a quote from Time magazine’s Joel Stein, who made a guest appearance with the improv troupe at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church.  The group’s leader explained that…

Timothy George, writing at Christian History, writes: “2009 is a good time to look again at Calvin’s theology and its relationship to the Baptist movement. Here are five theological principles Baptists can learn from Calvin.” (No, paedobaptism isn’t one of…

In this five-hundredth anniversary of Calvin’s birth, booksellers have flooded the marketplace with all things John Calvin. Of all the books published in this anniversary year, the one that stands head-and-shoulders above the rest is Bruce Gordon’s Calvin. In fact, it is…