The Calvinist International
The topic of the Trinity has been #trending in recent months, and its proper understanding has been a matter of dispute. Disputes about the Trinity are nothing new, of course, and the Trinitarian theology of this site’s namesake has itself often been the subject of controversy. Calvin himself, in turn, was involved in Trinitarian debates […]
I return once more (with apologies) to “Traditio Deformis,” one aspect of which was treated previously here. This post too treats a rather technical matter having to do with translation. Prof. Hart wishes to make much of the fact that Romans 9.22 is expressed in the form of a condition. He writes: “And so, what […]
The Davenant Latin Institute has now publicly launched, the initial response has been very encouraging. So far we have over 40 students enrolled, and we expect that number to grow. This has been particularly exciting in light of the fact that nearly all of the promotion has been online and online “word of mouth.” This […]
The next installment of Gasparo Contarini’s De Iustificatione. In this passage, Contarini continues his discussion of the various senses in which “faith” (fides) can be taken. Here he discusses it in the sense of fiducia, “faithfulness” (in reference to God) or “trust” (in reference to man), and he connects the latter sense to “hope” (spes). Translation But […]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 To illustrate the differences between the (merely) human types of justice he first discussed and the “Christian justice” that befits the sons of God, Contarini constructs a simile that points up the differences between rustic manners, which Contarini ironically calls the “urbanity” of rural areas, and those that are […]
The other day I was reading through parts of the eighteenth Topic, or Locus, of Francis Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology–specifically, the 34th question on “The Political Government of the Church”–and came across a paragraph that seemed important in the argument but that I simply could not get to compute (operator error, perhaps?). I’m not sure how […]