From Makoto Fujimura’s “Refractions” essay on a New York exhibit of letters from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here Fujimura is reflecting on the declaration of Jesus that wars will happen: “In Jesus’ realism of ‘these things must happen,’ he…
It is good to see John Tweeddale introducing the work of Richard Muller — a world-class scholar who has done much to rehabilitate a healthy understanding of Reformed theology after Calvin. I read Muller’s works on post-Reformation Reformed dogmatics early…
Bruce Metzger, George L. Collord Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, died on Tuesday.
John Tweeddale, a PhD student at Edinburgh working on John Owen’s commentary on Hebrews, is doing the church a great service in helping us to understand Richard Muller’s magisterial work, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. (Tweeddale blogs at The Conventicle blog (dedicated…
This book will be lost on some Ref21 correpondents, but I’ve just been given a copy of Eric W Gritsch’s book, The Wit of Martin Luther (Fortress), a superb study of the humour of the great Reformer.
I am reading a book on preaching to `postmoderns’ for review. There is much about it that I’m enjoying, but I find myself once again frustrated by the evangelical generalizations about postmodernism so-called.
From one of Makoto Fujimura’s “Refractions” essays, writing in response to the Amish school girl who tried to offer her life for her classmates, with the implications for artists: “Here, in a miracle nobody noticed, is a bugle call also…
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One of our readers, Peter Whyte, sent in this link to some P T Forsyth material on the web (and what looks like an interesting theology site all round). Here is the link: https://ptforsythfiles.blogspot.com/
If one sign of a great theologian is his ability to sieze hold of the imagination of his readers witha single line, to disturb them, to fascinate them, to make them think, then Forsyth ranks near the top. Here’s a few…
