Saturday, April 7, 2012

A lovely little play on words

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"prayers are vainly cast upon the air unless hope [(spes)] be added, from which we quietly watch [(expectemus)] for God as from a watch...

One sings anyway

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"whereas Watts and Wesley and Cowper's Olney collaborator John Newton are uttering their hymns as it were from the pulpit, Cowper i...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Sources of the full text of the Nijmegen Declaration/Nijmegen Statement of 1968 (17 December 1968) entitled "Freedom for Theology"

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,  17 December 1968 Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 17 December 1968 New York times,  17 December 1968 [London] Tim...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Stealing from churches

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"in almost every case where [twentieth-century evangelical] theology has provided guidance for broader intellectual work, that theology...

In necessariis, parum ab Evangelicalismo

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"much of what is distinctive about American evangelicalism is not essential to Christianity."      Mark A. Noll, The scandal o...

"The tendency of American evangelicals, when confronted with a problem, is to act. For the sake of Christian thinking, that tendency must be suppressed."

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     Mark A. Noll, The scandal of the evangelical mind (Grand Rapids, MI:  William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994), 243.           ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The source of a sentence Zacharias Ursinus attributes to Justin Martyr

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Ursinus :  Quemadmodum Justinus ait, Crede & ubique praesentem esse λόγον secundum substantiam, & singulari modo existere in prop...
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