Posted in Book Reviews, Daryl Hart, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Historical Theology, Pilgrim Praxis, Sola Ecclesia, Systematic Theology, Worship, tagged Calvinism, liturgy, Reformed on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Father God; Mother Church?
Daryl Hart’s provocative and penetrating collection of essays, Recovering Mother Kirk, is a profound read; it invites Christians into a way of life that at first sounds like an oxymoron (21-40) and secondly sounds like an evangelical swear word: high-church Calvinism.
Hart reaches out to evangelicals who, having grown fed up with the [...]
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Posted in Evangelicalism, tagged Anglican, Reformed on January 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Revd. Dr. Richard Turnbull, Principal of Wycliffe Hall at Oxford, spoke briefly at Reformed Seminary (Orlando) yesterday afternoon following a lecture on John’s Gospel given by Turnbull’s associate and Vice-Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Dr. Simon Vibert.
Hamstrung Evangelicalism
Turnbull, who in the middle of 2007 became enshrouded in controversial media attention over Wycliffe Hall’s alleged anti-intellectualism and [...]
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Reflecting on Touchstone Magazine’s recent forum discussion on the current state of evangelicalism (see Evangelicalism Today), Colin Hansen writing for Christianity Today asks, Do Evangelicals Have a Future? Only if they consistently set the robust, historic Christian faith in its necessary antithesis with the world can evangelicals keep from loosing their saltiness, he implies. Such [...]
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