Winter 2017
Volume 23, Number 1 · Four articles
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Church History
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Protestant Reformation
October 31, 1517 was meant to be a scholarly debate among theologians at the University of Wittenberg. McGlasson works back into the local controversy over indulgences, finds an early version of the modern prosperity gospel, and argues the first thesis still says the load-bearing thing.
Paul C. McGlasson27 min read -
Discipleship
If I were a Church School Teacher Again
Bruce Metzger spent his career as one of America's foremost biblical scholars but began as a Sunday School superintendent. These late-career reflections on what he would do if he had a classroom again are practical, simple, and clear-eyed about what religious instruction is actually for.
Bruce Metzger3 min read -
Discipleship
The Catechized Prodigal: When Covenant Children Lose Their Way
Proverbs uses contrast to teach: life or death, wisdom or folly, no comfortable middle. Hering brings the Proverbs' grammar of formation to bear on the painful experience of catechized children who walk away anyway, and finds the tradition has more to say than parents often imagine.
James P. Hering21 min read -
The Presbyterian Church
Surveying Presbyterian Beliefs
The PCUSA's own panel survey on theological reflection turns up some good news and considerable confusion. Bush walks through the data carefully, including how the survey's own categories made a coherent answer harder than it had to be, and what the responses tell us about where Presbyterians actually stand.
Michael D. Bush12 min read
