John R. Muether
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The “Magna Carta” of Christian Liberty
The Christian…finds in the Bible the very Word of God. Let it not be said that dependence upon a book is a dead or an artificial thing. The Reformation of the sixteenth century was founded upon the authority of the Bible, yet it set the world aflame. Dependence upon a word of man would be […]
“John Calvin: A Pilgrim’s Life” by Herman J. Selderhuis
Long before Jack Kerouac, there was John Calvin. According to the Genevan Reformer, the Christian life was a sojourn, and we are always on the road. The metaphor of pilgrimage serves as a distinguishing feature of this fine new biography by Herman Selderhuis (church historian at the Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn in the Netherlands). Calvin was […]
“The Evangelical Left: Encountering Postconservative Evangelical Theology” by Millard J. Erickson
Evangelical presses continue to spill ink over postmodernism. Millard J. Erickson, Professor of Theology at Baylor University and Western Seminary in Portland, provides in this survey an otherwise undistinguished addition to that collection, were it not for one striking feature about it. Erickson’s focus is on the movement that is calling itself “post-conservative” evangelicalism. The […]
Review of Christianity Today’s Book Reviews
As “people of the Book,” American evangelicals have also been people of books. In order to take the Word of God seriously, they have taken seriously the words of others, recognizing the vital importance of stimulating reading in the development of godly minds. In 1956, Christianity Today was founded on the premise that conservative Protestantism […]
A Sixth Sola?
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. There is no salvation outside the Church. In the good old days of American religious warfare these were perhaps fighting words for many Protestants, as they smacked of the mysterious and repressive haughtiness of Catholic sacerdotalism. Today, claims of the Church’s exclusivity seem quaint and inconceivable, not least among Roman Catholics […]
