The Quest for the Historical Beowulf

2007’s movie version of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf can best be summed up as “creative.” The CGI graphics and 3-D presentation were impressive and a genuine step forward in filmmaking, but the most noticeable aspect of Beowulf is its pronounced departure from the original work. This is not simply the alteration of one [...]

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Equal Ultimacy

Well since Remy linked to me I figure I’d better earn my keep. I can’t have him introducing all of his super hip friends to my site only to then let them all down with blather and droning.
Divine simplicity basically says that all of God’s attributes are all of God. God is all [...]

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Global Warming Come Back!

This is just too good:
But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here.  The total amount of [...]

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Nicholas Ridley and the Fathers Against Transubstantiation

In his fine Brief Declaration, Bishop Ridley begins citing the church fathers for support that the doctrine did not exist in the early church. He begins with Origen, and moves on to Chrysostom, Theodoret, Tertullian, Augustine, and Gelasius. He also briefly mentions Hilary, Ambrose, Basil, and Nazianzen.
He quotes Chrysostom’s 11 homily on Matthew [...]

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Calvin’s Commentary on Isaiah 5:7

Truly the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel.Hitherto he spoke figuratively; now he shows what is the design of this song. Formerly he had threatened judgment against the Jews; now he shows that they are not only guilty, but are also held to be convicted persons; for they could not be [...]

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Richard Pratt

So I sat in on Richard Pratt’s Joshua-Esther class tonight. I’ve already had it with another professor, but WOW. That guy is something else.
He said that the Christian faith is imperialistic, and Jesus is the new emperor. I think that’s basically his gospel.
We spent a good hour on the holy war, and [...]

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Edward Reynolds and the Grounding of Faith in the Free Offer

While going through that on which faith is grounded, Reynolds lists the free love of God, the example of other sinners saved, and then the free offer. He writes:
Because there is a generality and unlimitedness in the invitation unto Christ, “Come unto me, all that are weary.– Let every one that will, come.” There [...]

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Wrestling With God

Jacob encounters God as a friend at Bethel (Gen. 28:10- 22). He encounters God a second time at Peniel as an opponent (Gen. 32:24-32).

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New Old Posts

So I went and dug up my old old old blogger for the purpose of retrieving valuable resource material.  I have copied over most of the church history quotes that I had blogged, and I will likely add a few more in the coming days.  Sorry for the overload of new posts, but it is [...]

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Calvin on Unrepentant Covenant Children

It is certainly true that when children of believers reach the age of discernment [and have never repented or believed] they will have alienated themselves from God and destroyed utterly the truth of baptism. But this is not to say that our Lord has not elected them and separated them from others in order to [...]

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