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The Soul of Christian Education
This post is based on Colin’s talk at Saint Mary’s College, delivered on the 75th anniversary of the Collegiate Seminar department. I’ll never forget the first time I heard anyone use the term “big data.” I was at a faculty retreat with my department, Collegiate Seminar at Saint Mary’s College, and I had no…
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October 11 – Zwingli: The Warrior of the Reformation
At the same time as Luther was stirring the pot in Germany, another young man was coming to very similar conclusions independently! His name was Ulrich Zwingli, and he was an avid reader of Erasmus. Reading Erasmus convinced him that he was not to look to the Virgin Mary or the saints for salvation, but…
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WATCH: What is Masculinity?
In this video, Dr. Alastair Roberts reflects with Brad Belschner on how misguided many modern Christian approaches to masculinity are, urging us to put on or perform manliness in a way that encourages stereotypes. Rather, we discover what it means to be manly (or womanly) in the course of fulfilling the duties God has called…
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WATCH: The Challenges of Gender in the 21st Century
Progressives today are determined to reconstruct the concept of gender wholly on individual preferences. Conservatives, meanwhile, struggle mightily for models by which to meaningfully live out gender roles that were second nature to most of their ancestors. How have changes in technology and society conspired to make something as basic as gender such an enigma…
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Ad Fontes Volume II
Volume II, Issue 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 2 OF AD FONTES Tertullian famously asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” The relationship between faith and reason, between the Holy Scriptures and natural revelation, and between Christian doctrine and non-Christian philosophy, has been the subject of immense debate within the Christian tradition. Unfortunately, the…
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September 25th: The Peace of Augsburg
As Roland Bainton writes in Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, “In the sixteenth century people did not commonly agree to differ.”[1] Political and religious disagreements often ended in violence. Remember Luther going into hiding at the Wartburg castle? It wasn’t because he was worried that his Scriptural interpretation would be questioned, or that there would…
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September 21st: Commemorating Luther’s Translation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]September 21, 1522: Luther’s Translation of the NT Published Rome’s Censure of Scripture The council of Trent (1545-1563), in its 4th session, stated: “But if any one receive not, as sacred and canonical, the said books entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and…
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People of the Promise – Buy Your Copy Today!
As we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, many Protestants, whether in the pews, the pulpit, or the academy, are apt to feel a bit uncertain about just how enthusiastically they can celebrate the Protestant doctrine of the church. After all, isn’t this doctrine the weakest link in Protestant theology, as modern-day Catholic apologists…
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JESUS AND PACIFISM: A CORRESPONDENCE (PT. II)
MYLES WERNTZ AND ANDREW FULFORD Following the publication of Andrew Fulford’s Jesus and Pacifism: An Exegetical and Historical Examination, Dr. Myles Werntz contacted Fulford with the proposal that the two of them undertake a correspondence on the subject. Dr. Werntz is the T.B. Maston Chair of Christian Ethics at Logsdon Seminary at Hardin-Simmons University. A…
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