Scripta Didactica Et Polemica, Volumen V (Ioannis Calvini Opera Omnia, #4)
This valuable contribution to the debate about the relation of religion to the modern city fills an important gap in the historiography of early nineteenth-century religious life. Although there is some evidence that strict doctrine led to a more restricted response to urban problems, extensive local and personal variations mean that simple generalizations should be avoided. Ian J.Shaw argues against earlier prejudiced views and shows that high Calvinists played a vigorous and successful part in...
This text sets out to address the question of what Church Elders are for and what the job of a Session is in the modern church. It seeks to provide clear baseline thinking about the Eldership and applies the key ideas of teamwork and leadership to the Session. It looks at common problems, how to manage the Session team, and how to gain ground. Elders, and others engaged in Christian leadership, are encouraged to read this book as a text and to use it as the basis for individual activity and grou...
Throughout history, millions have lived and died without hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite vigorous missionary efforts, large populations of the world today have never been evangelized. And now religious pluralism has set up shop on the high street. The question 'Who can be saved?' forces itself on the minds of Christians like never before. There are big questions requiring thoughtful care. In this intriguing study, Terrance L. Tiessen reassesses the questions of salvation and the role...
Called by Triune Grace (Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture)
by Jonathan Hoglund
The Brightest Mirror of God's Works (Princeton Theological Monograph, #236)
by Nico Vorster
Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714 (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
by Dewey D Wallace
Dewey Wallace tells the story of several prominent English Calvinist actors and thinkers in the first generations after the beginning of the Restoration. In the midst of conflicts between Church and Dissent and the intellectual challenges of the dawning age of Enlightenment, these five individuals and groups dealt with deism, anti-Trinitarianism, and scoffing atheism - usually understood as godlessness - by choosing different emphases in their defense and promotion of Calvinist piety and theolog...
A revealing new portrait of John Calvin that captures his human complexity and the sixteenth-century world in which he fought his personal and theological battles During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation-as exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the Protestant Reformation. Calvin's vision of...