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In the field of Reformation studies, Professor Brad Gregory is somebody for whom I have immense respect. Those outside the discipline of history are possibly unaware of the ravages which postmodernism brought in its wake, making all narratives negotiable and fuelling a rise in interest in all...

The former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling (he of the white hair and black eyebrows), has written a memoir of his time at No.11 Downing Street. It's called Back from the Brink and provides a fascinating insight into the economic and political troubles the Labour government...

The former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling (he of the white hair and black eyebrows), has written a memoir of his time at No.11 Downing Street. It's called Back from the Brink and provides a fascinating insight into the economic and political troubles the Labour government...

New Cardinals for the next Conclave Opening the Pontifical Yearbook is not an easy task. This thick book of more than 2350 pages contains all sorts of information about who's who in the Vatican and what happens there. Despite the practical problems of handling this tome, it is nonetheless a mine of...

New Cardinals for the next Conclave Opening the Pontifical Yearbook is not an easy task. This thick book of more than 2350 pages contains all sorts of information about who's who in the Vatican and what happens there. Despite the practical problems of handling this tome, it is nonetheless a mine of...

So far, as we have pointed to some highlights of Walter Marshall's justly lauded book, "Gospel Mystery of Sanctification," we have learned the following from him about growth in grace in the Christian life: 1. Those who have been saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone properly and...

In our first highlight from Walter Marshall's " Gospel Mystery " we saw no antipathy to the ideas of the believer's duty or to the believer's aspiration to holiness or to the believer's endeavor to obey the moral law. Marshall says, to repeat, in his "first direction: "That we may acceptably...

John Murray famously commended Walter Marshall's "Gospel Mystery of Sanctification" as the best book ever written on the subject. Recently, however, some sound divines have become suspcious of the work, in part because of who is citing it and because of dubious appeals to its authority. However,...

Editor's Note: In the coming months, reformation21 will be reprinting some of our classic articles. This month's selection comes from January 2002. Shortly before college I read Mortimer Adler's little classic How to Read a Book . That may sound like an odd title. After all, how could somebody read...

Editor's Note: In the coming months, reformation21 will be reprinting some of our classic articles. This month's selection comes from January 2002. Shortly before college I read Mortimer Adler's little classic How to Read a Book . That may sound like an odd title. After all, how could somebody read...