Archive for August 2024
Podcast Repost: What is Reformed Catholicity? Matthew Barrett and Ronni Kurtz
Despite its polemic again the Roman church, the theological structures which emerged in the Swiss Reformation stood firmly on the traditional teaching of he church. This was achieved through a deliberate appropriation of the early church and a good deal of the medieval church. The Swiss reformers were grounded on historical continuity.” These words by…
Read MoreThe Liberality of Liberal Education
There used to be a distinction that signaled the difference between study for the sake of acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for some specific line of work or trade and a higher form of study that was undertaken because it was thought worthy in itself. I am speaking, of course, of the traditional division…
Read MoreTheologians of Comfort or the Cross?
We definitely live in a time when people enjoy many creature comforts. I can remember a time when new cars were not automatically equipped with air conditioning. It was a luxury add-on. In fact, my first car didn’t come with air conditioning unless you count the 4-40 system I had: 4 windows and 40 miles…
Read MorePodcast Throwback: What was the Reformation debate over the Lord’s Supper really about? Matthew Barrett and Samuel Bierig
In episode 4 of this mini-series, Samuel Bierig asks Matthew Barrett, author of newly released book The Reformation as Renewal (Zondervan Academic), about the intense divisions over the Lord’s Supper during the Reformation and whether there is more than meets the eye. As Barrett moves below the surface he shows that at the root of the…
Read MoreWho Decides Which Books Are “Great”?
If you were a student of Socrates, you would find the education meant wandering around having conversations about justice, truth, piety, and so forth. No laptops. No pedagogical techniques. Just a mentor, a group of peers, and great questions. If you look a little closer at the records that his student Plato kept for us,…
Read MoreMichael Horton invites you to his lecture this November
What is the significance of sola scriptura for the reformers and the church today? Did the reformers create this emphasis or were they retrieving the ancient church’s view of Scritpure? Has the modern church misunderstood this emphasis? These topics are the focus of Michael Horton’s lecture to be delivered November 19, 2024 in San Deigo,…
Read MoreMichael Horton invites you to his lecture this November
What is the significance of sola scriptura for the reformers and the church today? Did the reformers create this emphasis or were they retrieving the ancient church’s view of Scritpure? Has the modern church misunderstood this emphasis? These topics are the focus of Michael Horton’s lecture to be delivered November 19, 2024 in San Deigo,…
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