A Warning Against the Synodal Path

by Alexander Garth

A Protestant pastor argues that the Catholic Church does not need to become Protestant too. Continue Reading »

13 May 2021

Illiberal Protestants

by Ramona Tausz

Today, conservative critics of liberalism tend to be Catholic. Pundits warn of “‘post-liberal’ ferment among a coterie of mostly Catholic writers,” or report on the “network of Catholic intellectuals” making “the case against liberalism.” “Mostly these new traditionalists are . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2020

A Protestant Apocalypse?

by Carl R. Trueman

I wonder whether we might see something even more significant than a second wave of COVID-19: a second ecclesiastical apocalypse. Continue Reading »

29 Aug 2020

Cheever's God

by Matthew Schmitz

Readers of John Cheever’s stories, most of which appeared in the New Yorker before being collected in a Pulitzer-winning book in 1978, regarded the author as “the Ovid of ­Ossining,” the artist who showed the riches and wonders of suburban life. Alert to the transcendent in the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2020

J. I. Packer: A Great Puritan

by Hans Boersma

Those who knew J. I. Packer had no doubt that his lifelong reading of the Puritans fertilized his heart and mind. Continue Reading »

21 Jul 2020

Protestants in Rome

by Joshua Kinlaw

Protestants are drawn to Rome, though we define ourselves against it. Strictly speaking, we do not go there on pilgrimage. Yet we have always visited Rome, at once attracted and repulsed. It began in 1510, when Martin Luther took the trip that triggered the Reformation. “Rome, once the holiest . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2020

Tobit or Not Tobit

by Jonathan Reimer

As Iain Provan observes in his recent book The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture, the Protestant reading of Scripture lies “in some disarray.” Historical-critical readers, intent on recovering original texts and authorial meanings, have undermined the ability of Scripture to . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

Letters

by Various

I don’t suppose it will be easy for Carl Trueman (“Turning Inward,” December 2019) and me to avoid talking past each other, but let’s give it a try. My book, The Meaning of Protestant Theology, is not an effort to engage with secondary literature. (Gerhard Forde? Never read him; don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020

Briefly Noted

by Moriah Speciale

In 1901, Rev. Maltbie Babcock wrote in a well-known hymn that God “shines in all that’s fair.” Like Calvin, Edwards, and Babcock before her, Marilynne Robinson presents in her writings a world suffused with theological significance. Robinson is known primarily as a novelist, but anyone who has . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020

Turning Inward

by Carl R. Trueman

The most immediate and pressing ecumenical question for Protestants is not their relationship to Rome but their relationship to one another. From the moment Luther refused to accept Zwingli’s memorialist view of the Lord’s Supper at Marburg in 1529, the history of Protestantism has followed the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2019