Category Reformation21

Mark Dever interviews Derek Thomas.

Presumably the blogosphere is already abuzz with warnings about The Golden Compass, a New Line Cinema production scheduled to open on December 7. The warnings are justified: the film is based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials, which is…

This is old news by now, but I wanted to share one more highlight from last week’s Reformation Hymn Festival. The children’s choir sang Martin Luther’s “All Glory be to God Alone.”  I’m not sure that I have heard this hymn…

Okay, it wasn’t a private lunch, but there weren’t all that many of us there, either.  Gov. Romney was in Greenville yesterday and I attended a Q & A forum with lunch.  I suppose winning the South Carolina primary is…

A substantial new collection of essays on Karl Barth is due out in the UK this January: Engaging with Barth: Contemporary Evangelical Critiques, edited by David Gibson & Daniel Strange (Nottingham: Apollos, January 2008) ISBN: 978-1-84474-245-5. It includes contributions from…

Today is All Saints Day, the super-bowl Sunday of sacred relics in the Roman Catholic Church.  Not many people realize that this is the reason why Reformation Day is the same as Halloween (All Hallows Eve).  Luther was specifically protesting…

Kelly Kapic and our own Justin Taylor have just edited John Owen’s classic work Communion with the Triune God.  It is everything that one can hope for in theology: Trinitarian, Gospel-centered, passionate, written by a prince among all theologians.  The…

Carl Trueman was Al Mohler’s guest yesterday on Mohler’s radio show. Here’s a description: At least one prominent evangelical has suggested that the Reformation is “over” and it is time for Protestants and Roman Catholics to reconcile. On today’s program,…

Some have been emailing asking where I’ve been.  Well, yesterday I was in Jackson, MS and guess what?  I saw Del emerging from a hairdresser’s salon, sans his trademark soul patch and ponytail.  Can it be that Reformed theology’s answer…

. . . that I found while mining his Commentary on John for something else entirely: “Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection” (Vol. 18, p. 84).