34 articles from 30 issues, 1995 to 2025
Reprinted from a 1950 volume, this essay insists the Bible's whole message reduces to one staggering claim: God has spoken. The author argues that making this book truly known to people of our time is not merely a religious task but the supreme cultural one.
Bullinger's Decades sat alongside Calvin's Institutes as a foundational statement of Reformed theology in the sixteenth century. Slemmons offers Bullinger's own short summary in English for the first time, a fifty-article distillation of what every Christian should know.
John Leith spent his career teaching Reformed theology and rarely tried to summarize it. Republished from a new collection of his writings, this essay is his bold attempt to name what is most basic about the tradition: a theology of the catholic church, anchored in Scripture and confession.
Bruce Metzger's previously unpublished 1984 Princeton address on the theological stakes of inclusive language in Bible translation, published here for the first time. Translation always trades against itself, Metzger argues, and the trades around gender language are no exception.
Does the Bible belong to the church or the church to the Bible? McConnell traces the Reformation principle of sola Scriptura from a time when most believers had no copy of the text to one in which everyone has free access and somehow no longer has time to read it.
'Here I stand, I can do no other' is one of the most famous lines in Christian history, and Luther probably never said it. Thompson untangles three things popular memory has gotten wrong about the Diet of Worms, and recovers what Luther actually meant by Christian conscience.
Why do so many church members hold beliefs the Bible does not teach? Sue Cyre argues that doctrine, apologetics and a Christian worldview all rest on the reality of truth, and shows how postmodern ideas, from Rob Bell to the Supreme Court, deny it.
How did the New Testament come to be a single collection of twenty-seven books, distinct from everything else early Christians read? F. F. Bruce examines what historical research can show about the canon's emergence, alongside the historic Christian belief that the Spirit who inspired the books also gathered them.
Metzger walks through the influences that quietly shaped the New Testament canon: which books circulated, which got read aloud in worship, which got cited as Scripture by the Fathers. The story is one of the most important developments in early Christian thought, and history is largely silent about it.
Bart Ehrman and Dan Brown have made the New Testament canon a contested question again, presenting it as a top-down decree imposed on the early church. Hobson goes back to the actual history and shows that councils didn't decide the canon; they recognized what had already become Scripture by use.
How do we know the Bible we hold is the Bible that was written? Josh McDowell sets out ten ways Scripture stands apart from other books, traces how the Old and New Testament texts were copied and kept, and asks what inspiration means.
Sola Scriptura, Solus Christus, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Soli Deo Gloria: the five Solas were the Reformers' refusal to compromise. Poteet examines what's been lost when contemporary liberalism quietly trims them, and how the church might restore the lines the Reformers thought load-bearing.
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