What We Need to Learn from the Second-Century Apologists
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“The apologists affirmed: Christians are model citizens, respectful to Roman authorities, do good, and are not a threat to the empire.
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Two Charlies: Darwin vs. Hodge - An imagined interview with Charles Hodge
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“Hodge also saw that science low on the ladder of abstraction, based on observing and measuring, is not in conflict with Christian belief—but “science” high on the ladder, with faith in things unseen like macro-evolution, is. Here’s my pretend 1874 interview with Hodge about Darwin. Hodge’s own words form the answers.” - Olasky
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Now Thank We All Our God: Don’t Let 2020 Stop Your Thanksgiving
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“Now Thank We All Our God… rose to popularity at a strange time in European history, when it seemed there was little for which to be grateful. As the Thirty Years’ War raged through the interior of the continent, plague spread rapidly through communities in ways that now feel eerily familiar.” - TGC
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Sacred Desk or Sacred Cow? Perspective on the Pulpit (Part 1)
Since the days of the Reformation, Protestant churches have traditionally situated the pulpit front and center in the architecture of their meeting places. The purpose of the pulpit’s conspicuously elevated and prominent position is to symbolize the authority and centrality of God’s Word in the life and ministry of the gathered church. The question we want to raise in this brief article is whether such symbolism is always necessary or helpful in our day.
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Review of ‘An Introduction to John Owen’ by Crawford Gribben
Review of An Introduction to John Owen: A Christian Vision for Every Stage of Life by Crawford Gribben, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020, 190 pages, pbk.
Crawford Gribben is a professor at Queen’s University in Belfast and is well known as a scholar of Puritanism, specializing on eschatology. He has written a previous book on John Owen which has garnered him much praise.
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Is Anglicanism a distinctive middle way or via media between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism?
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“the conception of the Church of England as a half-way house between Rome and John Calvin’s Geneva (or Martin Luther’s Wittenberg) would have been incomprehensible to the English Reformers of the sixteenth century.” - Ref21
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George Herbert – Pastor and Poet
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“The gospel shines brightly through many of Herbert’s poems. We found a clear example of this in ‘The Collar.’” - Ref21
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Why Did John Calvin Write the “Institutes of Christian Religion”?
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“Calvin wrote his work to train readers in godliness, not to define Christianity as one religion by articulating a set of ethical and theological beliefs. For this reason, titling the book, Institution of Christian Religion conveys better the idea of Christian worship or godliness that Calvin intended to communicate through the title.” - Wyatt Graham
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The Reformation at 500: The Papal Bull (Part 2)
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“Since God has given us the papacy,” Pope Leo X stated dramatically, “let us enjoy it.”
There was one man standing in the way of such enjoyment, however. Leo had little regard for the priest in Wittenberg, Dr. Martin Luther, who he referred to as “a drunken German.”
“He will feel different when he is sober,” concluded the pope.
His ability to underestimate Luther could not have been more profound.
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