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Calvin
“All The Ministers Shall Meet Together”
When Martin
Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on true repentance at the Wittenberg
Castle church in 1517, John Calvin was an eight-year-old French schoolboy. He
was first...
Calvin’s Theology of Pastoral Care
Christ likens the Church to a sheepfold in which God assembles his people, and compares himself to the door, since he is the only entrance way into the Church.
Invitation to a Pillar Fight
Preamble: Beyond the blue
horizon an even-keeled professorship goes into dry dock claiming that (1)
doctrine unites, (2) reason divides, and (3) bondage frees. I. Surveying
Our Rubble Let...
John Calvin on Death and Grief
It is difficult for many of us to imagine John Calvin doing something so human and vulnerable as grieving. Nor is it any easier...
John Calvin
Calvin Meets Voltaire – An Interview with Jennifer Powell McNutt
Editor’s note: Since we are not the first Christians or congregational leaders in the Reformed tradition to swim against strong cultural and intellectual currents,...
Theology
A Theology of the Ordinary
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life––your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life––and place it...
Theology
Is Theology Practical?
This address was delivered at Theology Matters’ first conference on Hilton Head Island, Feb. 19, 2020. I made an off-hand comment to Richard Burnett one...
Theology
On Reconciliation – Honoring the Work of Jesus Christ
Christ Jesus . . . has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. Eph. 2:...
Confessing the Faith
A Provocative Confession: Jesus as the Truth
The fact is confessing Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life has always been provocative. It’s always been contested. It’s...