Lutheran Confessional Subscription
Francis Pieper wrote this about confessional subscription in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) of his day: This same truth […]
Read moreFrancis Pieper wrote this about confessional subscription in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) of his day: This same truth […]
Read moreI’m continuing to read through the first volume of Francis Pieper’s Christian Dogmatics. His cavils against Calvinism can be frustrating […]
Read more“Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul’s peace and […]
Read moreToday is my first day back after a few weeks of summer vacation — and it was a good one. […]
Read moreIn his little work on Spiritual Desertion, Gisbertus Voetius mentioned the case of Francis Spira as an example of those […]
Read moreI came across this quote yesterday in two books. It’s in Volume 1 of Pieper’s Christian Dogmatics (190). Then I […]
Read moreI’m currently reading Spiritual Desertion by Gisbertus Voetius and Johannes Hoornbeeck. This seventeenth-century work includes a helpful historical introduction by […]
Read more“Angels are deployed by God particularly for the rescue and protection of believers. Calvin has no problem in admitting this, […]
Read moreBack in the 1920s, R. B. Kuiper observed that many people in the Reformed Church in America rejected the Reformed […]
Read moreThis week I’m spending some time going through R. B. Kuiper’s 1926 book, As To Being Reformed. It’s worthwhile because […]
Read more“Luther: ‘The lawmonger compels by threats and punishments; the preacher of grace persuades and incites men by setting forth the […]
Read moreIn chapter 4 of As To Being Reformed, R. B. Kuiper outlined what he saw as the perils facing the […]
Read more“Of late it has become customary in Christian Reformed circles to speak of Synodical interpretations of the Confessions, and these […]
Read moreI have written on the categorical distinction before. Here I introduced Schilder’s thoughts on it. Here you can find what […]
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