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  • Augustus Hopkins Strong, Theologian

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    Today (August 3) is the birthday of baptist theologian Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836-1921), one of the most important American theologians of the nineteenth century. Strong was a man of contrasts: gregarious and popular, he nevertheless carried himself with an overstated dignity and reserve; always making witty remarks, he was never known to laugh out loud…

  • Horatius Bonar Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

    Horatius Bonar Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

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    Today (July 31) is the day in 1889 when Horatius Bonar died at the age of 81. Bonar (1808-1889), Scottish pastor and author, was from a long line of clergymen and was brother to the equally famous Andrew Bonar (1810-1892) with whom he is sometimes confused. Born in Edinburgh and educated there under Thomas Chalmers,…

  • William Burkitt: Observe and Learn Hence

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    William Burkitt was born this day (July 25) in 1650. Burkitt was a graduate of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and an Anglican minister. He was the author of the celebrated Expository Notes on the New Testament, published in two volumes about 1700. Later luminaries such as Matthew Henry and Charles Spurgeon recommended this work highly. Burkitt…

  • Christology is not Pneumatology (A.A. van Ruler)

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    In a recent issue of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Gijsbert van den Brink and Stephan Van Erp lament the lack of any contribution from 20th-century Dutch theologians to the rediscovery of trinitarian theology. In their article, “Ignoring God Triune? The Doctrine of the Trinity in Dutch Theology,” they say that “Apart from some…

  • Review: Re-Thinking Rahner’s Rule and Revelation

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    In the current issue of the International Journal of Systematic Theology, you can read my review of Dennis Jowers’ recent book on the Trinity, Karl Rahner’s Trinitarian Axiom: ‘The Economic Trinity is the Immanent Trinity and Vice Versa’ (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006). The book itself (and consequently the review) is not for the…

  • Holy Holy Holy

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    All Christians believe in the Trinity, but some Christians believe in the Trinity better than others. There are some Bible-believing Christians who have all the basic biblical materials for trinitarian theology stored in their minds, but who have never assembled those materials to make the doctrine of the Trinity. They believe there is only one…

  • Cyril of Alexandria

    Cyril of Alexandria

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    June 27 is the day Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444) is remembered in the Western churches. For many years, he wasn’t widely remembered in the Western churches at all, at least in English-language theological circles. For example, in the 48-volume set of patristic writings of the Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene periods issued in the nineteenth…

  • Alcuin’s Epitaph

    Alcuin’s Epitaph

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    Alcuin of York was born around 735 and died on this day, May 19, in the year 804. He got to write his own obituary, or rather epitaph, which goes like this: Hic, rogo, pauxillum veniens subsiste viator… Oops, I mean like this: Here, I beg thee, pause for a while, traveler, And ponder my…

  • Butler’s Analogy

    Butler’s Analogy

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    Joseph Butler (born this day, May 18, 1692; died in 1752) was the Bishop of Durham and a celebrated public intellectual. In fact, his greatest work, the Analogy of Religion (1736) was so famous in its own time and so influential for the next 150 years, that it is hard to explain how it could…

  • Posts About Today

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    While It Is Called Today (Explanatory post, March 2009) JANUARY January 1: Zwingli born, 1484. January 2: Therese of Lisieux born, 1873. January 3: E. Stanley Jones January 4 : Ussher January 5: Robert Morrison January 6: Spurgeon January 7: Athanasius on canon January 8: Jim Eliot killed January 9: Fillian January 10: Laud dies…

  • Gustaf Aulén, Lundensian Theologian

    Gustaf Aulén, Lundensian Theologian

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    Gustaf Aulén (born this day, May 15, 1879; died 1977) was the Lutheran bishop of Strängnäs, Sweden, and the leading figure in a loosely-defined movement within twentieth-century theology called the Lundensian Theology. The other major figures in the movement were Anders Nygren, Ragnar Bring, and, at a distance, Regin Prenter. The label Lundensian, which is…

  • Why Protestants Should Read Thomas Aquinas (2: Faith and Reason)

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    A second benefit of reading Thomas Aquinas (see my previous post for the first benefit) is that Thomas Aquinas knew how to use both faith and reason. Thinking Christians need to know how to do this. When people first read Thomas, some people consider him a rationalist (he can prove God’s existence using pure reason!),…