Modern Reformation

Sports offer a window into how human beings come to adore something and form lasting habits of devotion and commitment. There is much to learn from the cultus of sports.

The dogmatic truth is this: it really and truly is extremely fitting for us to display what is in God in physical ways taken from the material world and suited or open to the sensory powers of human persons.

In Junius’s thoughtand in Reformed scholastic theology generallymoral perfection cannot be understood comprehensively without its relation to the beatific vision.

The contemporary rendition of the dispute over God's sovereignty and human freedom being carried out by Paul Helm, Richard Muller, Antoine Vos is not new. And yet, it is recomposed, and as such very instructive.

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With alarming acceleration, even so-called moderates - or more idiosyncratic proponents of a third way approach - are hitching their wagon to one of the main teams both politically and culturally.

Humanity, in general, very often fails to recognize its limits. Instead of accepting God’s providence and his sovereign control in all things, we have sought to wrest it from his hand.

Perhaps the English I am a Christian and the Latin Christianus sum are both suggestive, but in opposite directionsthe English towards an individual identity-choice, the Latin towards something deeper, more primal.

Just as life, relationships, work, and possessions are gifts from God so also is the power to enjoy it all. The power to enjoy itself is the more fundamental gift of God that unlocks the enjoyment of all else that God has given you.

It was because of this sure hope that I left my new home not only in tears but with joy. In the months since, on days when my heart aches to be back in Tanzania, I hold fast to that hope of eternity.

Throughout the twentieth century, a number of historians have proposed that the period of systematization which followed the Protestant Reformation, was one of theological collapse.

We should remember that Jesus’ yoke is easy and that we should go to him for rest (Mt. 11:2830).

This is a major new work and an important aid to Christians, particularly those who minister in Muslim contexts.

The problem of evil poses a formidable challenge to the rationality of the Christian worldview.

In the past fifty years, we’ve seen a considerable resurgence of interest in Reformed literature. Part of this surge has been an interest in the work of the English Puritans.

"The reality of emptiness seems to resonate. Sometimes I feel as if there is a bottomless pit inside of me that no amount of entertainment, affirmation, or accumulation can fill."

As Christians race to understand the culture as it seemingly falls apart around them, there are few better authorsor better booksto read right now than Timothy Keller's "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering."

Jordan Cooper’s new book "Prologomena" is a welcome and long-overdue contribution to today’s confessional Lutheran theology.