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 …
One Message, Really?
"With so much discussion about the need for unity in the church, one would think that more people would recognize the value of the A.V. to this end, but instead one hears only of using “the Bible of your choice,” which tends to lead to fragmentation in any group study, rather than to unity. The …
Red-Letter Bibles!
There are a good number of publishers that produce Bibles in which the word of Christ, that is, the words spoken by Christ while he was on this earth, are placed in red. Altogether apart from the issue of what in the gospel accounts are actually words spoken by Christ, the red-letter editions of the …
The Closing of the Canon of Scripture!
When the final apostle died or laid down his "apostolic pen," the giving of special revelation ceased. In 2Timothy 3:16-17 further attests to this fact when it claims that the completed Scripture (the 66 books of the Bible) thoroughly equips us "for every good work." By implication, then, there is and can be no extra-Biblical …
