As much as Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has come under criticism, Stephen J. Nichols argues that it has had at least one salutary effect: "Prior to The Da Vinci Code, you would have been hard-pressed to find many conversant with the Nicene Creed, but now nearly fifty million readers, not to mention masses […]
Friday, 05 September, 2008 by Michael Vendsel
"I know that it is pretty much an old saw that images are the books of the uneducated… But … the prophets totally condemn the notion, taken as axiomatic by the papists, that images stand in place of books." (Institutes, Book 1, Chapter 11, Section 5) With these words, John Calvin expresses what has been […]
Thursday, 03 May, 2007 by Michael Vendsel
Growing up in a Baptist home while attending a Presbyterian church, I heard quite a few discussions about covenant theology. Nearly every time, though, the focus of the discussion was on the legitimacy of paedobaptism. This happened often enough that I naturally associated the two subjects; whenever covenant theology came up, I assumed paedobaptism was […]
Wednesday, 02 May, 2007 by Michael Vendsel
Scott Oliphint's Reasons for Faith is an attempt to address several of the problems in contemporary philosophy of religion and demonstrate that "Reformed thought, centrally set forth in [Cornelius] Van Til's works… has already broached virtually every discussion now in play." His perspective is broader, though, than simply Van Til (in fact, Van Til is […]
Wednesday, 02 May, 2007 by Michael Vendsel