• Hemmingsen on Mark 7

    It is significant that Christ not only healed a man, but that, in order for the man to be healed, others had to bring him to Christ.

  • Revisiting Martin Luther’s Philosophy

    Cooper’s defense of the scholastic method argues for seeing continuity, rather than disjuncture, between Luther and his successors.

  • Our Daily Bread: Hemmingsen on Grateful Faith

    Hemmingsen’s discussion contains a salutary reminder that we are to receive God’s good created gifts with gratitude and acknowledgment. If we do not, we are robbing God.

  • Calling upon the Lord: Herman Bavinck on the Creatureliness of Prayer

    Bavinck nudges the novice towards seeing prayer as built upon and expressing the order of being. When Christians pray, they do so by the Spirit; the very act that manifests our creatureliness is achieved only in relation to the Spirit’s enabling presence.

  • Hemmingsen on Three Kinds of Justice

    Christian justice, as Hemmingsen defines it, is “the obedience of Christ imputed to the one who believes.” The one who is just “evangelically,” or “according to the gospel,” is the one whose sins are forgiven and to whom the justice of the Son has been imputed.

  • The Lamentation of a Sinner by Katherine Parr: A Review by Rhys Laverty

    Devotional retrieval must accompany theological retrieval. To that end, New Whitchurch Press’ republication of The Lamentation of a Sinner is prescient.

  • Revisiting “The Shape Fallacy”: A Response to Ben Jefferies

    I am concerned with something bigger than any one late modern prayer book: how the Dixian shift to thinking of the prayer book in terms of “shape” has affected the virtues of the prayer book tradition.

  • Becoming Holy with Richard Hooker

    By teaching two kinds of righteousness, one imputed and one actual, Hooker makes room for us both to truly become holy and for our works to contribute to that holiness.

  • The Art of Protestant Learning

    One of the misguided but persistent assumptions about English reformers in the sixteenth century is that they rejected the study of ancient languages, rhetoric, grammar, philosophy, and poetry in their efforts to defend the supremacy of Scripture.

  • “Presbyterians” and the Making of an Informal Establishment (Pt. 2)

    So far, I have worked to argue that the English Reformed tradition had already become considerably less magisterial by the mid-seventeenth century. Next, I want to suggest that Cromwell’s move towards supporting a kind of multiple establishment had echoes in the early republic, first in the abortive attempts to create shared establishments that would support […]