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As it turns out, I was wrong about Chytraeus’ Catechism in English–it has been translated, by Richard Dinda (Repristination Press). I haven’t seen a copy yet, but he appears to have translated an earlier, shorter version of the catechism, so I’m going to press on for the time being with a later, more expansive version. […]
Correction/Retraction: In the original version of this post, it was assumed that Mark Noll’s summary of Michael Winship’s taxonomy was an accurate one, and both accordingly came in for some criticism. Dr. Winship has contacted the author to explain that this is not the case, and that Noll’s remarks about “Stuart Anglicanism” are entirely Noll’s […]
I’m planning to continue translating Chytraeus’ catechism for the time being, for a couple of reasons: 1) as far as I know, it hasn’t been translated into English previously, and, if it has, I’m sure it’s not widely available; 2) Chytraeus himself is something of an irenic figure, about which I hope to post something […]
Chytraeus continues his answer to the question about the chief heads of doctrine treated previously in Part 1: Ex his duobus fontibus, qui velut metae & normae sunt totius sacrae scripturae recte intelligendae, omnes reliqui doctrinae Theologicae loci nascuntur & emanant: & ad duo haec prima puerilis Catechismi nostri capita, videlicet Decalogum, & Symbolum fidei, […]
The Lutheran Chytraeus again. Quae sunt capita doctrinae Christianae praecipua? Duo. LEX DEI, seu praecepta Decalogi: & EVANGELION, seu promissio Grtiae DEI & vitae aeternae, propter Christum gratis donandae. What are the chief heads of Christian doctrine? Two. The Law of God, or the precepts of the Decalogue; and the Gospel, or the promise of […]
A pithy and useful definition of theology from the Catechism of the Lutheran David Chytraeus (1530-1600): Quid est theologia seu Doctrina Christiana? Theologia est doctrina de DEI essentia et voluntate ac beneficiis generi humano propter Christum meidatorem exhibitis, et cultibus ipsi vicissim debitis, patefacta in verbo Dei per Prophetas et Apostolos tradito, et illustribus testimoniis […]
The first-ever Convivium Calvinisticum was held last week and sponsored by the Reformed Irenics private online theology forum. While all of the writers for TCI are members of the Reformed Irenics, the two entities are distinct, and it should be made plain that the content posted at TCI are not at all necessarily the views of Reformed […]
Last week I referred to the “progressivist” strain in Greek cultural thinking, which was associated with Prometheus and which tracked a general advancement of mankind from his earliest days to the present. But there is another strain as well, the “primitivist” one, in which the history of mankind is described as a general decline over […]
Martin Luther’s ubiquitous criticisms of Aristotle were once considered to be, by such interpreters as Harnack and Barth for example, a wholesale attack on the natural capacity of the intellect to discern the truth from created realities, i.e., philosophically. More recent readers of Luther, such as Lohse, Gerrish, Zachman, et alia, have recognized this criticism […]
This post is something of a lark, apropos (maybe?) of some of Peter’s recent writings on nature and supernature, and also (maybe?) of Steven’s on Adam and evolution. There is a stream, which can be called progressivist, in the Greek mythic tradition in which man as originally constituted was lacking in particular gifts that allowed […]