Anselm’s Humility & Faith

Anselm’s great humility is, itself, humbling. His notion of faith seeking understanding is fundamental.

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The Best Yet

The scholastic theologians after the Reformation produced the best prolegomena to be found. Are you at all familiar with it?

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Knowledge of God?

A glimpse of the discussion about how our language and knowledge relates to God’s knowledge of himself. I think you’ll dig it.

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Reformed Catholicism – 2

Protestantism, at its best, is not a revolt against tradition, as such. We participate in the great conversation, but weigh it all in the balance of the Scripture.

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Reformed Doctrine, Medieval Mold

How is one to teach theology in the schools? This was a serious question that, after the Reformation, needed to be answered. The answer, in large part, was found in the Middle Ages.

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Summary of the Discussion

A summary of the discussion so far. I’ve been working with Tim Troutman on the biblical data for the Roman Catholic hierarchy – check out the comments!

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The Breadth and Breakdown of Orthodoxy

The breadth of Reformed orthodoxy is really quite startling, but it went out with a whimper.

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Calvin and Turretin on Scripture

Referral to an article on the doctrine of Scripture in John Calvin and Francis Turretin in the Western Reformed Seminary Journal

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The Debates of High Orthodoxy

The Reformed orthodox did battle both with other confessional forms of Christianity and with themselves. Here are some of the issues.

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Early Reformed Systematization

Reformed Protestants (more than Lutherans), in the first generation, pressed toward the development of a theological system founded specifically upon the Bible.

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