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Reforming Advent: 'Kris Kringle'
For students of history a fundamental law of the discipline seems to be that history is simply doomed to repeat itself. As we’ve looked at Advent traditions throughout the previous posts we’ve gone...
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Luther on Christ Our Righteousness
The famous verse of the Reformation was Jeremiah 23:6, specifically the naming of God’s people “The LORD our Righteousness”. Many in the years since, have located salvation within (Wesley) or made it...
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Chemnitz and Justification
In the Lutheran Church there’s a Traditional phrase: If it weren’t for the second Martin, the first Martin would never have been heard. This second Martin after Luther was Martin Chemnitz, the great...
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Luther's Ecclesiology in the Genesis Commentary
From the little I’ve read so far, I’ve seen that Luther’s ecclesiology was what one might call functional. The Church was neither an invisibile platonic form as the Reformed taught that each peculiar...
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St. Augustine the Monergist on Grace and Free Will
So what’s Monergism anyway? According to my alma mater (wikipedia): “Monergism describes the position in Christian theology of those who believe that God, through the Holy Spirit, works to bring about...
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Civic v. Spiritual Righteousness and the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-1662
In our society when something tragic or extreme happens – like the shooting in Colorado – it is portrayed as an horrific exception to the rule of the normative goodness of human beings. By comparison,...
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Has God Promised Employment?
[on: “give us this day our daily bread”] “Behold, thus God wishes to indicate to us how He cares for us in all our need, and faithfully provides also for our temporal support. And although He...
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Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans and the Unfair Gospel of Christian Bible
“We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore that we are justified by faith only is a...
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