Hemmingsen on the Sabbath and Christian Festivals (13)
This post wraps up the series on Hemmingsen on the Sabbath and Christian festivals. In these four assertiones, he concludes with some remarks on change, continuity, and authority. Of special...
View Article“By the Mystery of Our Savior’s Fasting and Temptation”: The Collect for...
I missed last week (sorry!) but here is the Collect for this week (Invocavit Sunday) from the Order of Worship for the Reformed Church in the United States, to accompany the Gospel reading from Matthew...
View ArticleMelanchthon on the Church and the Word (1)
A new week; time for a new series. This one, which will last for a while, will be on Melanchthon’s treatise De ecclesia et autoritate verbi dei (“On the Church and the Authority of the Word of God”),...
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This is just a short one for today. In this passage, Melanchthon sketches how one ought to affirm the supreme authority of Scripture without going overboard. His concern for antiquity echoes Zanchi’s...
View ArticleMelanchthon on the Church and the Word (3)
In today’s post, Melanchthon begins to marshal patristic support for his understanding of the relative weight of various authorities in theology. Melanchthon’s high view of both Scripture and patristic...
View ArticleMelanchthon on the Church and the Word (4)
In today’s post, Melanchthon cites one more patristic source (Origen) as an example of how the church’s authority is rightly deployed. He then proceeds to sketch his understanding of the relation of...
View ArticleMelanchthon on the Church and the Word (5)
In today’s selection, Melanchthon affirms both that the church has never ceased to exist, from its establishment in the time of Genesis all the way up to the present, and that it nevertheless has often...
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Review of Aimee Byrd’s, Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Aimee Byrd, Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose (Zondervan, 2020).Aimee Byrd has written a book with a specific focus: as a member in a...
View ArticleMan and Woman: A Biblical Systematic Anthropology
Christian sex and gender conversations are back. They never really went away, but the past few weeks have seen a number of new essays and other contributions on the topic. Recently, Dr. Scott Swain...
View ArticleHemmingsen on the Sabbath and Christians Festivals (12)
In today’s theses, Hemmingsen discusses the very important topic of adiaphora, or things indifferent, for that is what undergirds his comments on “ceremonies.” What Zanchi does in the case of...
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