Pastoral Element There was much pastoral purpose too in Calvinʼs ministry. He sought to advise local and national churches. John Calvin sought to advise the Duke of Somerset under Edward VI, he sought to present him with a scheme of reform that would reform the English church. Unfortunately, Somerset died before the reforms could be …
Tag: Word of God
Preaching & the Presence of God!
For John Calvin this was a very important matter, it was for him the driving force of preaching. The word of God is not divorced from the very and dynamic presence of God. God he said, is in fact, in the preaching. Properly preached, he said, though coming through the agency of a man, it …
The Preservation of Scripture!
Now the majority of Protestant churches concur to a large degree with the once discredited epistemology of papal Rome. The modern textual critics have largely accepted the Roman Catholic view of the impurity of the original language texts of Scripture. Now instead of the Council of Trent asserting that the Latin Vulgate is the authentic …
On the Word Inerrancy!
Inerrancy: Meaning and Usage. Arthur Carl Piepkorn produced a terribly useful study of the history of this term back in 1965 ("What Does the Word Inerrancy Mean"? Sept 1965). He pointed out that the word was nowhere to be found in the Confessional literature of the dogmatic tradition of the Lutheran Church. A survey of …
