3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (553+ words) The Living Church A 17th-Century Apologist for Our Times Please email comments to email protected. Tomlin situates Pascal within a period of profound upheaval. “The shape of Pascal’s century,” he writes, “was formed out of three cultural earthquakes of the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (306+ words) As Jack Franicevich has demonstrated through a close reading of the canons of both churches, neither bishop violated any canon or rubric of the church to which he or she belongs. That matters, because it means the dispute is not…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (353+ words) The Book of Common Prayer is a profound resource and represents a rich religious heritage. Its influence runs throughout English literature and poetry. It has sparked and resolved debates and led to martyrdoms. Most importantly, the prayer book provides Christians…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (229+ words) Torrance’s picture of anxious rule following corresponds best to the first tier in Irenaeus’s moral theology. In AH 2.6.1, Irenaeus connects the fear of God experienced by all creatures with the awe-filled fear that all citizens of Rome have for their…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (258+ words) I had the privilege of leading contemporary worship at a Bible camp in Canada this summer. It had been almost a quarter century since I had done so and it was a bit of a stretch. We might note, to…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (483+ words) The Living Church A New Standard for Introductions to Early Christian Thought Please email comments to email protected. The book is not necessarily designed to be read straight through. There is no single, overarching historical narrative, but instead several individual,…...