In the very first “In this Issue” of Modern Reformation, Editor-in-Chief Michael Horton lamented that both popular culture and evangelicalism had pushed aside attentive and careful consideration of God, seeking instead entertainment, amusement, and fun. “So in this issue,” Dr. Horton wrote, “we will be raising thinking to the top of the agenda.” Indeed, not […]
September/October 2021 The publication of Modern Reformation magazine serves to connect the universal church in a fragmented world. I am grateful for this magazine as it has both challenged and encouraged me in my faith. Recently, a well-known member of a Reformed ministry stepped down in light of new convictions concerning baptism. Ann Hart’s article […]
The Protestant Reformation is justifiably known for recovering the biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone in Christ alone. But one further benefit of this movement was the translation of the Bible into contemporary languages making it accessible to all. We may perhaps take it for granted that we have several outstanding English versions today, […]
by Franciscus Junius translated by Ryan M. Hurd The following is a translation of Franciscus Junius’s De Providentia Dei, “God’s Providence,” a short disputation held while he was professor. Abstaining from further introduction about Junius himself, I will add a word regarding the translation below. I have made no effort to establish a critical text […]
The answer to this question depends—not surprisingly—on what we mean by “fundamentalism.” As a religious designation, the term is just over a century old. Yet it never had just one meaning, and over the decades, these principal meanings have changed. So, to avoid confusion, we need to stay alert to these various meanings and be […]
The University Library of Groningen in The Netherlands possesses a remarkable book previously owned by Martin Luther: a 1527 edition of the New Testament by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Erasmus’s New Testament, first published in 1516, contained the Greek text, Erasmus’s own translation into Latin, and his technical commentary, which justified the choices he had […]
Dr. Tamrat, thank you for taking the time to talk with us at Modern Reformation. Perhaps we can begin with the history and current state of the Ethiopian Church. For many centuries, Ethiopia considered itself a Christian nation; it is mentioned in the Old and New Testament more than forty times. So, there is historical […]
in October 2017, I was a newly minted PhD shopping a revised dissertation manuscript around to a handful of publishing houses. Not long after an evangelical house decided to take it on, I found out that my title—something involving the phrase “the evangelical mind”—would be the first part of the project to feel the editor’s […]
Cliffside, all I could ever see hidden in mist;I diatribe the great air unaware if up or downHolds my feet stone-sure, when rapture liftsA veil to magnificence surpassingly profound. And instantly, universe, glowing stars as at a grasp,Surging past a billion galaxies free-anchoredInto constant nothing—ducking, twisting, racing, splash!Into the deep, cave black abyss, adrift despair. […]
Beyond. In lightless, soundless space,The night is infinite and void,Except for possibility.Beginning has eluded us,And left us staring up at stars,Debating questions—“How,” then “Why?”Such musings perpendicularTo better lines of questioning—The greatest mystery, “What?”We ask ourselves, “What is? What isn’t?” Within the shadow womb, a flare,Explosion piercing nothingness,Emergent substance, color. Light.Cascades of energy expand,Traversing space in […]
My spiritual pilgrimage offers one microcosm of American evangelicalism’s basic story arc: from mainline pietism through fundamentalism to both neo-evangelicalism and confessional Protestantism. I was born into mainline pietism as a Methodist in rural Ohio. But when the denomination began sending pastors to our congregation who did not believe and preach the Bible, we shifted […]
Modern Reformation is pleased to welcome Larry Woiwode, poet laureate of North Dakota, as the new poetry editor. Larry is the author of the poetry collection Even Tide (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977) and a chapbook, Land of Sunlit Ice (NDSU Press, 2016). His poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Harpers, The New Yorker, The […]
