Is the Lord’s Supper for all covenant children? In recent years, Reformed communities have nursed a simmering argument about this, with an increasing minority claiming that the traditional Reformed perspective betrays the logic of its own sacramental theology. In spite of a few articulate voices in the “paedocommunion” camp,1 however, most major Reformed denominations have […]
Continue reading →Of all the solas of the Reformation, critics from both within and without the Reformed tradition have most hesitated and argued over sola Scriptura. With good reason. Depending on how you define it, you can quite handily make the case that either not a single soul in the whole, holy catholic church actually believes sola […]
Continue reading →Why did New England Puritanism ultimately fail in its “errand to the wilderness”? Almost as early as the advent of the second generation of Puritans, one can already find first generation Puritans lamenting the corruption and near dissolution of their beloved “city on a hill.” An aged William Bradford manually supplemented his earlier, optimistic record […]
Continue reading →“Keep the main thing the main thing,”1 Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert intone to no probable disagreement in their amply-titled book What Is the Mission of the Church?: Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission. Literally everyone wants to keep the main thing the main thing. The real disagreement comes when one […]
Continue reading →Why did Jesus teach in parables? Was the purpose to reveal or to conceal the truth? Sorting through the available biblical data helps open up the mystery.
Continue reading →How do the arts fit into missions, evangelism, and worship? Is there such a thing as incarnational evangelism through the arts and culture?
Continue reading →In Romans 1:16, Paul says, “I am not ashamed of the gospel.” Did he mainly mean that he wasn’t embarrassed? Is this Greco-Roman rhetoric or Hebraic hope?
Continue reading →The book of Job has regularly posed a problem for Christians in nearly every generation because it presents, quite starkly, the suffering of a “blameless” man for no reason ever explained to him, by a God who seems far more interested in winning a bet with Satan and browbeating Job with odes to His own […]
Continue reading →Calvin emphasized religious knowledge as the foundation of the Reformation of the church. But have his theological heirs misunderstood his assumptions?
Continue reading →What’s the difference between the Islamic and historic Christian doctrines of revelation? Is the Islamic doctrine properly called bibliolatry? If so, what does that say about the Reformed doctrine of the Bible that increasingly looks like the Islamic doctrine of the Qur’an?
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