Recent Scholarship The Puritans: Church and State 9 Sep 2016September 28, 2017 During the early seventeenth century the group known as the Puritans left England and settled the area of New England, there setting up their colony. They would do this due…
Recent Scholarship… Rereading the Faith for Today – Gnostic Tendencies and Defending Against Them 31 Aug 2016October 2, 2017 In his book The Everlasting Man G.K. Chesterton asserts that “the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.” Chesterton is here referencing the…
Recent Scholarship… Two or Three Uses? – The Law in Luther & Calvin 30 Aug 2016October 2, 2017 Within the realm of Christian theology there are many fiercely debated topics. One such topic is the question of the how the Law is to be understood in the Christian faith,…
Recent Scholarship A Continuing Orthodoxy: A [Fairly Short] PCA History 23 Aug 2016August 23, 2016 oots of the PCA In telling the story of the Presbyterian Church in America there are a number of different places one can start. One could begin with the Reformation.…
Recent Scholarship… Gnosticism: Heresy or Paganism? 11 Aug 2016July 31, 2017 In his book The Great Heresies, Hilaire Belloc defines a heresy a sort of thing which takes a system of thought and - rather than depart wholesale from the previously…
Book Reviews… What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? 9 Mar 2016September 25, 2017 For those who hold the Bible to be the authoritative Word of God, one of the more relevant questions of the day is "What does the Bible really teach about…
Recent Scholarship “All of this, of course, is rank speculation” – or, 3 Main Problems with Modern Scholarship’s Account of the Early Church 9 Mar 2016October 25, 2017 When the average Christian take up their Bible and reads, the assumption is generally made that what is being read is the inspired word of God. Yet in popular contemporary…