We must climb the things of this world, this evermore insane world, as we ascend to things higher.
Steven Wedgeworth
Keep your hand on the plow and hold on.
“Anglican-Sounding Stuff” at Dort
This post is going to be a bit short and imprecise. Still, friends encouraged me to plop this down in one easy-to-find spot, and so I hope it helps. My goal here is not to prove that the Dutch Reformed are really Anglicans. Neither am I commenting on later development...
One Month After the Roe Leak: Reflections on the Supreme Court’s Draft Opinion
With some distance from the initial SCOTUS leak, what are the most significant takeaways?
Calvin on the Church of England – Part 3
We could say that Calvin is Puritan in personal tastes and eventual goals but that he is Anglican in basic principles and ecclesiastical polity.
Calvin on the Church of England – Part 2
This post is Part 2 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 3 here. Earlier, I introduced Calvin's commentary on the 16th century Church of England. I pointed out how Calvin complimented the state of religion in England at the time, instructed the...
Calvin on the Church of England – Part 1
This post is Part 1 of a three part series. You can read Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. John Durel was a Franco-Anglican minister who became a key Reformed apologist for the Church of England after the restoration of the Stuart monarchy. Mostly forgotten today, Durel...
The Reformation Character of the 1662 BCP
The growing popularity of the International Edition of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer has brought many positive fruits with perhaps the greatest being a reuniting of Anglican worship to the Magisterial Reformation. The 1662 BCP does this chiefly through the content of...
Martin Luther on the Ministry of Shem
Throughout Martin Luther's Lectures on Genesis, he returns again and again to a surprising theme. Shem, the son of Noah, was a public leader over the ancient church and he even served as divine oracle for the patriarchs, mediating the word of God to them throughout...
Calvin Against Iconoclasm
In his biography of the great reformer John Calvin, Bruce Gordon repeatedly points out that Calvin opposed iconoclasm (see pgs. 283, 323-327 of Gordon's Calvin). On this point, Calvin differed from men with whom he was otherwise associated, such as Farel and Viret....
Charles Hodge, Wrong About Calvin and the Reformed Doctrine of Eucharistic Presence
After beating up on Nevin, it's only right that I turn some attention to Charles Hodge. While the main edge of his criticism of Nevin had to do with Nevin's peculiarly German view of human maturation into deity, he does also spend some time on the matter of the real...