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What was ordinary life like in Bible times? The Biblical writers largely take this for granted, but much profit and richness of understanding can be found in looking into this. Bible stories come more alive, the spiritual experiences of biblical … Continue reading →
Some teach the Bible obligates infants and young children to attend congregational worship. This new in-depth article by Fentiman shows: ‘There is No Divine Obligation for Infants or Young Children to Regularly attend an Adult Worship Service’ All the Old … Continue reading →
May one eat at a restaurant on the Lord’s Day? Fentiman in a new article defends that on any view of the Lord’s Day, even the most outwardly stringent, it may be moral to eat at a restaurant, from Scripture, … Continue reading →
When Reformed theologians did theological retrieval, they often drew from the detailed paradigms that had already been laid down by two opposite poles of philosophical theology in the Middle Ages: Aquinas and Duns Scotus. It has been hard to get … Continue reading →
Allan B. Wolter (†2006) was an American, Franciscan, John Duns Scotus (d. 1308) scholar and professor of philosophy. He provided a medium-level proof for God in the scholastic tradition from the existence (or possibility) of transient being, or change, which … Continue reading →
Rejoice! What amounts to a systematic theology of David Pareus (d. 1622), a German reformed divine, has been found appended to an old edition of Zacharias Ursinus’s Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism. It’s not precisely a systematic theology, but its … Continue reading →
If salvation is all of the Lord, how can faith be a condition for salvation? It is true some have erred in thinking man, by his free will, independent of God, contributes his own faith, or that the goodness of … Continue reading →
In the Lord making us born again by his Spirit (Jn. 3:3-8), are we passive or active therein? Classic reformed theology has answered: “Both”. We are passive in the first instant, but after that active, in repenting of our sins … Continue reading →
More exciting than the Olympics: Here are 60+ more Reformed scholastic, AI translated treatises, in English for the first time (for most of them). A few previously done, by Rutherford and Bavinck, have been added in for thoroughness. Several are … Continue reading →
Here are 50+ more Reformed scholastic (mostly) AI translations. The systematic theology by Hoornbeeck is especially a jewel, amongst all the others. A few translations have been contributed by Michael Lynch, a few by Matthew Daniels at Obedientia Mortis Christi, several by … Continue reading →