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Richard E. Burnett is Executive Director of Theology Matters and E.J. Rice Professor of Reformed Theology at the Institute for Theological Education. He holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and is the author of Karl Barth's Theological Exegesis (Eerdmans).
Irenaeus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Chrysostom, Calvin: a remarkable continuity runs through the church's understanding of what pastors are for. Burnett gathers their voices into a single conversation about the care…
Burnett uses Eugene Peterson's lesser-known The Wisdom of Each Other to think about the church as a supernatural community. Peterson's old friend Gunnar shows up after forty years of silence,…
Calvin once wrote that he would gladly cross ten seas if it would help mend the church's torn body. Burnett puts that ferocity in conversation with Karl Barth, and asks…
Burnett's teacher George Lindbeck once told him the mainline church was dead and the only question was whether evangelicalism was the seven demons coming into the corpse. Twenty-five years later,…
Luther had a mistress, or thought he did, and he sometimes called her Reason. Burnett uses Luther's polemic to recover something the Reformers actually believed about reason: a gift of…
Why do Protestants have confessions of faith? Burnett's answer is short: not because we want to say more than the Bible says, but because we don't want to say less.…
After two decades of asserting that theology matters, Burnett asks the harder question: has it actually mattered? He surveys the major debates in the PCUSA over sexuality, the sanctity of…
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