Archive for August, 2006
A Few Conclusions
Now that I’ve hunkered down on about 2k pages of Mercersburg stuff, I’ve come to a few conclusions. They’re not definitive - and I hope the paper I’ll have to be writing in the next month will be a little more focused - but I’d like to share them…
1) Although I cannot claim to […]
Another “test”
Just for the fun of it; I guess it’s not a bad way to come out for an RCA guy….
You scored as Calvin. You are John Calvin. You have a Nestorian Christology and separate the Divinity and Humanity of Jesus. You believe only those who have faith are united to Christ, who is present […]
Read More..>>Nevin’s The Reformed Pastor
The Reformed Pastor
ed. Sam Hamstra Jr.
Pickwick Publications (Whipf and Stock)
ISBN: 1-59-752383-6
The Reformed Pastor is a collection of lectures offered by Nevin to his students. In them he presents a well-rounded picture of what a pastor is and what he (for in Nevin’s day it was always “he”) is not.
“What good can an unlearned man […]
Read More..>>Nevin’s Sermon Catholic Unity
It’s long for a sermon and continues on the theme of catholicity and Christian Unity….
“Christianity is the universal solvent, in which all opposites are required to give up their previous affinities, no matter how old and stubborn, and flow together in a new combination, pervaded with harmony only and light at every point.” (1)
“The Church […]
Nevin’s Antichrist
Found in the same little Wipf and Stock book. Antichrist is a short, but strong, argument suggesting that the the spirit of schism in the church is antichrist. He speaks specifically to an American audience - an audience that (judging by the current state of affairs in the US) refused to listen.
Has […]
Nevin’s Anxious Bench
The Principle of Protestantism: Notes & Quotes
Available in a handly little book by Wipf and Stock Publishers (ISBN: 1-57910-429-0), Nevin’s three great essays The Anxious Bench, Antichrist, and The Sermon: Catholic Unity all speak to problems equally as destructive within the 21st century church as they were to that of the 1840s.
In The […]
Philip Schaff: Christian Scholar and Ecumenical Prophet
Philip Schaff: Christian Scholar and Ecumenical Prophet
By George Schriver
Mercer University Press, (c) 1987
ISBN: 0-86-554234-1
If Philip Schaff was remotely the man Schriver presents him to be, he was exactly the kind of preacher/teacher/exegete/theologian/Christian that I wish I had as a mentor and hope to someday become.
Born in Switzerland on January 1, 1819, Schaff died in 1893. […]
John Williamson Nevin: American Theologian
John Williamson Nevin: American Theologian
By Richard E. Wentz
Oxford University Press, (c) 1997
ISBN: 0-19-598243-5
John Nevin was one of the two key figures in the Mercersburg movement. He was born in 1803 (Pennsylvania) and died in 1886.
The book is not the most readable, but seeks to present a sort-of theological biography of the man. Thus, […]
Today I Start…
It is official, today I start a week long study of Mercersburg Theology. Honesty demands I admit beginning the readings weeks ago, but today marks the “nose to the grindstone” period.
I normally find educational time emotionally demanding but otherwise relaxing and rejuvenating. this week may be an exception regarding the later […]
Things You May not Know about Me
I keep in touch with one friend from high school and she sent me this. Since everything else I want to write at this moment takes more brain-power than I currently have to give, it’s the extent of my posting for today!
Things you may not have known about me…..
Four jobs I have had in […]
