The Calvin v. Calvinists debate has rocked back and forth. Perhaps it could be better resolved by focusing less on doctrinal shifts and more on liturgical ones. In his The Worship of the English Puritans (Puritanism) , Horton Davies highlights the movement of English Puritans away from Calvin: . . . . Continue Reading »
2 Corinthians 5:16: From now on we recognize no man according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. It’s not too much to say that the truth expressed in our sermon text is the heart of Calvin’s understanding of the . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s remarkable how often de Lubacian themes come up in political discussions nowadays. Kahn: In calling citizens to sacrifice, “Political rhetoric affirms that in the life of the nation, we never die. We are assured of a kind of secular resurrection: he who believes in the nation shall . . . . Continue Reading »
As I suspect, it always comes back to baptism, infant baptism in particular. Kahn: “Liberalism has never produced an adequate explanation of the family, because we cannot understand children” without the framing assumptions of liberalism - its assumption that the individual is the . . . . Continue Reading »
Drawing on the work of James Scott, Richard Horsley ( Jesus in Context: Power, People, and Perfomance ) offers this remarkable description of first-century temple worship: “The ideology of the Temple and high priesthood, both being institutions of venerable antiquity, aimed to symbolize that . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s assume that the Eucharist makes a political difference. And let’s observe that the predominate Christian tradition of the US has been a-Eucharistic. Then we must ask, What political difference has that made? . . . . Continue Reading »
This quotation from Oyekan Owomoyela’s African Literatures: An Introduction , cited in a student paper, got me to wondering: “whatever was the official attitude to African cultures, the missionaries, in the British areas as well as in the French saw in everything African godless . . . . Continue Reading »
Isaiah 26:9: With my soul I have desired You in the night, yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,” Jesus said, . . . . Continue Reading »
Henri Lefebvre was a firm believer in the Marxist dictum that “the criticism of religion is the premise of all criticism,” though he dissented from Marx’s prior claim that the criticism of religion is essentially complete. He includes a vicious, sarcastic diatribe against the . . . . Continue Reading »
Encouragingly, the Mercersberg revival continues apace. Phillip Ross has recently released a new edition of Nevin’s classic on Eucharistic theology, The True Mystery of The Mystical Presence . Ross has updated Nevin’s language and clarified his obscurities, trying to make Nevin speak in . . . . Continue Reading »
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