Reformation21

I'm in the process of reading an excellent manuscript on Martin Luther, of which I hope to say more at a later time. Recently, I also finished reading an exceptionally fine study of the Westminster Standards by John Fesko. Both books have prompted me to reflect a bit on the benefits we receive from...

Today Zondervan Academic launches a new website that includes, among other things, a new theology blog entitled, Common Places, edited by Michael Allen and the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse. The first post describes our vision for the blog. Later today Fred Sanders takes a sledgehammer to the...

You will probably have seen the latest clip of Osteenian wisdom circulating on the interweb. A gleaming Victoria, cheered by the crowd and with husband Joel oozing agreement in the background, announces the following: I just want to encourage every one of us to realize when we obey God, we're not...

The Andrew Fuller Center at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has been re-jigging its output. Part of the result is a new, regular newsletter. More details are available here . Extra points are available for those who know why it is called, simply, Kettering .

Calvin thinks none too highly of persons who covet the lives of pigs and dogs. It seems to have been a considerable problem in his day; he refers in his comments on Genesis 3 to the "well-known complaints" of persons who consider the lot of "swine and dogs" ( porci et canes ) in life preferable to...

Christian Focus Publications have often been the butt of my jokes and this post was originally going to be called '15 Books CFP Don't Want You to Know About' but, having thought about it, even I realise that would be an unhelpful title for them. I am a huge fan of CFP. They produce masses of...

What does the holiness of the minister have to do with the efficacy of the preached Word? Are we falling into a Donatist error (from Donatus who re-baptized clergy who had lapsed in the Great Persecution, A.D. 303-305) by insisting that the holiness of the minister has some sort of causal...

A council member from - ahem - The Gospel Coalition sent me this today. We here at Reformation21 nominate the entire Gospel Coalition, all 1,000,000+ of you. Carl Trueman's Ice-Bucket challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7XUU6DWSjU Some observations are in order: 1. We know Carl is against...

L.M. (Eden) Behold the blessèd Lamb of God, Who for the world poured out his blood; He died and suffered on the tree That men the grace of God might see. Behold the bleeding Sacrifice - Salvation at unmeasured price. He came to this dark world below, God's greatest blessing to bestow. Behold the...

Over at First Things Peter Leithart recently posted some comments on Gijsbert van den Brink's article in the July issue of the International Journal of Systematic Theology . Therein, van den Brink addresses recent lack of enthusiasm in academic theology for "social trinitarianism," i.e., the belief...