The leading essay of Beyond Calvin is called "Metaphysics and Justification" (pp. 34-52). This is a lightly revised version of an article first published under the title, "Metaphysics and Justification in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Reformed Theology" in Calvin Theological Journal 46 (April, 2011): 29-47. If you are interested in reading only a few posts in this series, I
(Continued) When Fesko turns from Gaffin to summarize my work and the work of Evans, Fesko notes my effort to compare Calvin’s views with Luther, Melanchthon, and Osiander (21). Fesko also provides a summary of what he regards as the conclusions of my study. I’ll take each point in turn. 1. “First,” says Fesko, “Garcia rejects
You will quickly discover why I could not put this material into a traditional journal review. With my apologies for its length, I suggest you print this out, settle into a comfy chair, and read these notes in one hand while holding a glass of red in the other. (I recommend a quality Malbec.) And
I have been asked repeatedly in recent years if I intend to write in response to the publications by John Fesko, the Academic Dean of Westminster Seminary California in Escondido and a professor of theology there. One reason I have been asked if I intend to do so is rather straightforward: Fesko has written a
Professor Larry Hurtado of the University of Edinburgh is an eminent New Testament scholar known for his work on manuscripts, textual forms and transmission, early Christian symbols, and especially early Christian worship of Jesus in language traditionally reserved for the God of Israel. He agreed recently, sight unseen, to review N. T. Wright's enormous and long-expected
Piper channels Kilby channeling Lewis channeling, I suggest, Hopkins - in the course of which we happen upon a wonderful list of ten ways to revel righteously in the "strange glory of ordinary things." It's a notion deeply consonant with the aims of Wince+Sing. The first three read as follows: "1. At least once every day
The Folio Society is an elegant celebration of quality, meticulous book publication. Rich editions of great books - glued bindings appropriately elicit the publisher's anathema - is a weakness of mine, and so any product of the Society is a rare, almost intoxicating indulgence. The most recent Folio magazine arrived today. In the opening pages
Thank you for bearing with the hauntingly quiet corridors of Wince+Sing lately. Behind the scenes exciting developments are taking place, and the project as a whole is coming into place nicely. We are moving ever closer to our goal of providing and facilitating research and resources in theology, exegesis, and spirituality in the tradition of
Death despite medicine. That it is common, perhaps nearly universal, does little to numb the pain of it every time it happens. After a round, or two or five or twenty-five rounds, of professional medical attention, advanced medicines, treatments, operations, surgeries, and the like, our loved one dies. "Dies anyway," we might be inclined to
Laughter and weeping are both, to use Berger's term, "signals of transcendence" - punctuations in the story of human life that reveal our belief in Something beyond us. Christians teach that these punctuations expose that we are eschatological creatures who lean forward into life with an ineradicable and fundamental sense of expectation and longing for