20 years on from his landmark book on Calvin’s view of the supper, Keith Mathison asks: has it been reclaimed?
Church History
Calvin and the Resignification of the World: Creation, Incarnation, and the Problem of Political Theology in the 1559 Institutes: A Review
Calvin’s theology exists not in the abstract, but in material, contextual and embodied forms that ebb and flow.
In Darkness, Light: Francis of Assisi, Proto-Reformer
How did Francis of Assissi anticipate, yet differ from, the Protestant Reformers?
Bacchanalomania
A new book vastly overstates parallels between the Eucharist and the Dionysus cult
What If There’d Been A Spanish Reformation Council?
How did the Spanish Reformers approach their patristic and medieval heritage?
Discovering Calvin’s Ecclesiology
What did the great Reformer believe about the Church?
Those Misunderstood Anabaptists
The Anabaptists are much malgined in Reformation history. But who were they, really?
Let’s Get Medieval
Why it’s worth studying the Church in medieval England.
Why Protestants Read Aristotle’s Ethics
In the Reformation, the Philosopher was used by the Reformers just as much as by Roman Catholics.
Identity and the Life of the Mind: The Eternal Value of Boethius
Boethius provides powerful resources for contemplating how knowledge relates to identity formation in the Christian life.