The Calvinist International
Charles Hodge’s next reference to Schleiermacher comes, once again, less than a week after the last, and, once again, involves August Tholuck. In the conversation summarized here, Tholuck defends Schleiermacher as “strenuous” on behalf of “some” of the “peculiar doctrines” of the Reformed church, and relays his view that this gives Reformed churches their greater […]
An older article on Jonathan Edwards was passed along to me, and I thought it was worth sharing. Chris Armstrong’s Preacher in the Hands of an Angry Church is informative and engaging. Perhaps most noteworthy is the fact that Edwards was essentially fired from his church at the age of 46, and he never retained […]
Dr. Fred Sanders has a very helpful post on Jonathan Edwards and his most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Dr. Sanders gives some context: “Sinners” looms large in American memory. It is a sermon on hell that has seared itself into the conscience of the country and made people think […]
Discussions of human nature in its original state and the donum superadditum today seem arcane and a minor point at best. This was not the case, however, just one hundred years ago. When one reviews the great American systematic theologies from the Reformed tradition, he will find thorough discussions of anthropology, even (or perhaps especially) the […]