Let me begin by establishing the parameters of this little article. It is not an attack on the Textus Receptus or the Majority text from which the TR emerged. This article takes up a very specific historical issue, which can…
I’ve been preparing a talk on Luther and education for a conference this summer, and so have been reviewing Luther’s 1524 “To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany, That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools.” In examining this work,…
Joseph Alleine (1634-1668) Life Born at Devizes, Wiltshire, Joseph Alleine loved and served the Lord from childhood. A contemporary identified 1645 as the year of Alleine’s “setting forth in the Christian race.” From eleven years of age onward, “the whole…
Ressourcement: retrieving our past for present faithfulness –true history in The Letter to Diognetus Imperial Rome, especially in the first two hundred years of its existence, was “obsessed with time” and its place in the flow of history.[1] This obsession…
Rarely has one man stood up against so many opponents–or against so great an evil–for so long and with so little encouragement, before finally meeting with such a complete triumph, as William Wilberforce in his long battle against the…
Teaching history is probably one of the more depressing activities in which one can engage in the current climate. At an academic level, the discipline has been in self-destruct mode for some time, losing itself in a morass of hyperspecialised…
It should not escape the attention of the Christian disciple that some of the most profound spiritual mysteries are very often closely tied to time and history. Take the incarnation for example. Arguably the most weighty of spiritual realities, and…
