A Man for Our Time

At last, a worthy biography of the first confessional Reformed theologian to have truly grappled with modernity

The Classical (Thomistic) Doctrine of God

Dodds’ work is excellent exposition of the classical doctrine of God, answering the everyday questions of believers. It is unfortunately let down by beginning the development of monotheism with Abraham rather than Adam.

Martin Luther and Tax: A Protestant Perspective on Redistributive Taxation

The redistributive grammar of Luther’s theology of the Lord’s Supper underlies his vision for poor relief and, thus, implicates redistributive taxation.

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.

Inhabiting the Places of Promise: Martin Luther’s Teaching on the Three Institutions

Reflection on the institutions, on the shape of the divine promises to care for human life as revealed in Scripture, brings to light that to which our hearts cling in social and political life.

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.

Without Excuse: Presuppositionalism and the Historic Christian Faith

Incorporating philosophy, historical theology, and Scripture, our latest collection features essays on the doctrine of natural revelation.

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.