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Cruciformity: Paul and Us, the Table and the Cross

As Romans 8 builds to the crescendo that nothing “will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:39), Paul inserts a jarring Old Testament quotation: “for your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered” (Ps. 44:22). […]

Wednesday, 14 September 2022 by Joshua Pauling

Civilization, Confession, Persuasion – Part II

Monday, 12 September 2022 by Joseph Minich

In Part 1 of this essay, I argued that Christians have an interest in cultivating public sites of theological negotiation and persuasion in precisely those locations where a critical mass of human wondering suggests the need. The free appropriation of orthodoxy (“confession” is always a task in the present-tense) and knowing where maturity is demanded […]

Civilization, Confession, Persuasion – Part I

Monday, 05 September 2022 by Joseph Minich

“Whatever is not from faith is sin,” Paul wrote (Rom. 14:23). While speaking about secondary truths in context, implicit in the Protestant project is the conviction that Paul’s statement applies to primary truths as well. The conscience, due to the necessity of making individual judgments, straddles all classes of truth. And the wisdom of Paul […]

How Modern Was The Reformation?

Monday, 29 August 2022 by D. G. Hart

To hear some people talk, you would think that the birth of freedom, democracy, and the modern world started with the Protestant Reformation. In fact, the coincidence of faith and modernity has less to do with Martin Luther than with John Calvin, the reformer who had the audacity to question the rule of bishops and […]

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Renewing the Joy of Christian Reading

Why do you read? Do you read to learn, grow, and gain new knowledge? Do you read for pleasure, or does that feel like a luxury you can’t afford? Maybe with the call of ministries and theological studies, you feel like Christian nonfiction is the only option. Yet at the same time, you feel exhausted […]

Monday, 22 August, 2022 by Lara d’Entremont

Being Devoured for the Glory of God

One of my favorite writers in China is Shi Tiesheng. He summarized the human life in precisely three words: “loneliness, misery, and despair”. He says that whoever you are, if you live in this world and dare to think, you will find one thing to be sure—that life is doomed to be lonely. Whatever you […]

Monday, 15 August, 2022 by Simon Liu

Israel’s King Come to Save

“So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.’” John 12:13 The crowds had followed him to Jerusalem. Even more crowds had come out to exalt him as king while he entered. […]

Friday, 12 August, 2022 by Matt Boga

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Divine Impassibility and Our Suffering God

An important aspect of the Christian gospel that seeks to proclaim the love, mercy, and compassion of God is the affirmation of God’s identification and solidarity with human suffering. A suffering humanity needs a God who knows what it means to suffer. The church has traditionally met this need by emphasizing the passion and death […]

Monday, 06 August, 2007 by Peter D. Anders

The Incommunicable Attributes of God

As great Christian minds have scoured the Scriptures they have been able to discern a number of God’s attributes-that is, characteristics affirmed by God as belonging to his nature. These fall into two categories: communicable and incommunicable. The former are those attributes that humanity can share with God as his image bearers (e.g., holiness, relationality); […]

Monday, 16 July, 2007 by Michael S. Horton

Poetic Polemics

The name Ralph Erskine (1685- 1752) might not sound that familiar to modern ears but, in fact, this minister’s literary works were once so treasured that as late as 1879 they were still some of the best-selling religious books in London. (1) Most of Erskine’s published material consisted of his sermons, but his most popular […]

Thursday, 05 July, 2007 by Shane Rosenthal

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Volume 31; Issue 5 September 1, 2022

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This is a special issue of Modern Reformation. With it, we are wading into new waters that—to many today—may seem quite turbulent, even perilous: the relation of science to the Christian faith. As with all the issues of MR this year, we’re taking a historical approach rather than a theoretical one. In particular, we’re looking […]

Thursday, 01 September, 2022 by Joshua Schendel

The Importance of Being Written: Scribes at the Westminster Assembly

Specters haunt the history of church committees. Today’s disciplined clerks, as we know them, harken back to yesterday’s unseen scribes. Every reader of ecclesiastical documents and every lover of polity, decency, and good order remains in their debt. For without them, there would be no surviving record of church business. No committee—therefore no associated team […]

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Thursday, 01 September, 2022 by Zachary Purvis

Reading Genesis in the Reformation

Roughly half of American Protestants and a majority of self-identified evangelicals currently reject at least a portion (and in some cases, nearly all) of the modern scientific consensus about the age of the earth and the evolutionary development of life. There are myriad biblical and theological issues involved—not to mention broader social, cultural, and political […]

Thursday, 01 September, 2022 by Wesley Viner

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