The Calvinist International
Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart has written an essay on the Pauline terms “spirit,” (πνευμα) “soul,” (ψυχη), and “flesh” (σαρξ), maintaining that modern readers are greatly (or perhaps completely) hindered in their understanding of them. He lays blame on a kind of “Protestant biblical scholarship” that is allegedly weighed down with all sorts of […]
While we are on the subject of Hemmingsen, his final summary in response in the Enchiridion theologicum (Classis III, caput III on the Apostles’ Creed) to the question Sed quid commodi nobis ex Chrsiti resurrectione accedit? (“But what advantage accrues to us from Christ’s resurrection?”) is a wonderful statement of the power and significance of the resurrection […]
So says Calvin, in his comments on Peter’s words in Acts 1.21, after noting the requirement that anyone who would claim an apostolic office must have seen by autopsy (in the Greek sense of αὐτοψία, “seeing with one’s own eyes”) the risen Jesus: He nameth the resurrection, not because they must bear witness thereof alone; but […]
Today is the 451st anniversary of John Calvin’s death. In his biography of the Reformer, T.H.L. Parker quotes the prayer with which he concluded his sixty-fifth lecture on Ezekiel, one of the last times he taught in public. He envisions the Christian as already on the “threshold” of the inheritance; the mansion itself awaits, assured […]
A moving passage from Cyril of Alexandria on Romans 6:5 (“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his”) and the hope of the resurrection: Emmanuel gave up his soul for us; he died in the flesh. We also were buried […]
Giving a mixed review of Bavinck on natural law and the two kingdoms, David VanDrunen recently wrote, Though a complete account is more complex, a good general argument can be made, I believe, that his defense of the natural law and the two kingdoms categories belongs to the orthodox Bavinck and his advocacy of themes […]