If Augustine considers sex something that man cannot enjoy sinlessly, where does that leave music?
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The (Anglican) Church Aggressive
By the 1850s significant theological and ecclesiastical battle lines had been drawn the between sympathizers of the Tractarian Movement and the Low Church party in the Episcopal Church in the United States. Although not every devotee of the Tractarians could qualify...
Technology Ex Nihilo
Technology hardly ever emerges ex nihilio. In fact, it’s usually by accident.
The Philosophical Absurdity of the Incarnation: Luther, Augustine, and Auden
In Martin Luther's Disputation concerning the Passage: "The Word Was Made Flesh" (1539) we find the following thesis (2): In theologia verum est, verbum esse carnem factum, in philosophia simpliciter impossibile et absurdum.In theology it is true that the Word was...
Theological Prolegomena and the Three Forms of the Word of God
Is it high time we reorganized Reformed theological prolegomena?
“Such is the Breath of Kings”: Shakespeare’s Richard II and COVID Restrictions
Bad rulers thoughtlessly breathe decrees, ignorant that their subjects do not have a breath to spare.
Jonathan Edwards and the Southern Presbyterians
Jonathan Edwards was indicted for falling away from Calvin’s views on the Lord’s Supper.
Free to Be or Free to Believe? What the Battle for Baptist Identity Tells Us About Religious Liberty
The Baptist idea of “soul competency” has been distorted, and with it our whole notion of religious liberty.
“In Order Flesh by Flesh to Free”: A Fifth-Century Hymn (1)
For Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, I think I'm going to change things up slightly for "Melanchthon Monday." For the next several weeks, I want to turn our attention to one of the two surviving hymns from the hand of the fifth century biblical epic poet Sedulius....
The Church Calendar As Word Ministry
How can evangelicals reconcile the church calendar with an emphasis on the ministry of the Word?