24 Jul 2017
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
Will we need a Mediator even after the perfection brought about to God's people after the Resurrection and the Last Judgment? In an interpretation of 1 Cor. 15.24 ("Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority...
Read more → 21 Jul 2017
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
It is well known (at least, I think it is) that a prominent strand of the exegesis of Matt. 16.18 ("And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it," ESV) makes the "rock" not Peter himself, nor the apostles in general, nor even...
Read more → 18 Jul 2017
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
Everyone knows that Martin Luther hated reason and thereby destroyed Europe, culture, kittens, and organic farming. After all, he once called "holy reason" a "mangy, leprous whore." Again, "reason is the devil’s prostitute and can do nothing else but slander and dishonor what God does and says." So,...
Read more → 14 Jul 2017
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
A friend notes that John Henry Newman says this in An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine: Calvinism, again, in various distinct countries, has become Socinianism, and Calvin himself seems to have denied our Lord's Eternal Sonship and ridiculed the Nicene Creed. My initial impulse upon...
Read more → 12 Jul 2017
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
In the final edition of his Loci communes, Philip Melanchthon offers nine proofs for the existence of God in the locus De creatione, as B.B. Warfield long ago noted in "Calvin's Doctrine of God" (see n. 41). Some of these will seem standard fare; the sixth proof will perhaps surprise. The nine proofs...
Read more → 11 Jul 2017
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
Ok, I was kidding about that whole Shedd thing. I'll get to him, but via one of his footnotes I was led to a work of Augustus Toplady in which he discusses the question of infant salvation. Toplady is most famous now not for, e.g., his dispute with John Wesley or his translation of Zanchi on predestination...
Read more → 08 Jul 2017
Posted by Andrew Fulford and Peter Escalante 
Since Jay Adams and no doubt earlier, the Christian world has been arguing amongst itself over the relationship between its faith and the modern science of psychology. And this is not only a disciplinary division issue, for the modern field of inquiry has experienced a history of its own, with influential...
Read more → 07 Jul 2017
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
I said in my initial post that limbo, with respect to those dying in infancy, "does not reckon seriously enough with the grace of God, the character of the atonement, or the relation of sacraments to the application of redemption." This remark has wider applicability that merely to that bit of postmortem...
Read more → 05 Jul 2017
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
In my last post, I noted that A.A. Hodge "is much more forthrightly assertive [about the salvation of all who die in infancy] than he is [in his commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith]." While the topic does not arise in his Outlines of Theology, as I mentioned before, it does come up several...
Read more → 02 Jul 2017
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
Since my time reading Dallas Willard in my early 20s, I’ve been interested in the practice of meditation. My diligence in the discipline has waxed and waned throughout my life, with periods where it had deep effect and others where I came up dry. Yet, my growing appreciation for Thomistic psychology...
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