Resources by Sebastian Heck - Modern Reformation

Reformation2Germany

Thinking back to the momentum that the Reformation generated in its early decades, who would have thought that this upcoming decade of quincentennial celebrations would take place in countries that are now all but bereft of the gospel? The Western European decline of almost all recognizable expressions of the Christian faith has become proverbial. In […]

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Thursday, 01 September, 2011 by Sebastian Heck
"Drawn to Freedom: Christian Faith Today in Conversation with the Heidelberg Catechism" by Eberhard Busch, translated by William H. Rader

Our time is not one generally characterized by ro-bust confessionalism or by an appreciation of historic Christian and Reformation creeds, let alone a penchant for formulating contemporary confessions in that same tradition. Thus we should be immediately grateful for theologians such as Eberhard Busch who take the time to initiate a "conversation" with such a […]

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Thursday, 01 September, 2011 by Sebastian Heck

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The Meaning of “God”

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Modernity, Pluralism, and Doubt Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Charles Taylor’s monumental A Secular Age was the simple observation that modern believers and unbelievers experience the world in much the same way. Whether raised by a homeschooling family who taught you to be a six-day creationist, or the child of an irreligious couple in San […]
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Whatever we believe the Scriptures say about legitimate grounds for divorce, the assumption that marital dissolution should not be common among those who claim to follow Christ and Biblical teaching is reasonable. The pertinent passages recognized in the New Testament at most allow for divorce and remarriage only for egregious violations of the marital covenant […]
Biblical Nonconformity

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Nonconformity is all the rage. Our culture applauds rebellion against social norms and encourages boldly standing apart. Sometimes this nonconformity is minor. It looks like fuchsia hair, living in a tiny house, eating only fruit and veggies. Other times nonconformity is something more extreme. The most immediate example is gender nonconformity. Biologically sexed males and […]
The Model for Christian Manhood: Introduction

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When I used to lead women’s ministry at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, I helped organize our yearly Women’s Retreats. The men, however, never had Men’s Retreats. They had Men’s Advances. Retreats, as they saw it, were for sissies. Nevermind that the larger church adopted the concept of retreat from Jesus’s example in the Gospels. […]

Reformation2Germany

"Drawn to Freedom: Christian Faith Today in Conversation with the Heidelberg Catechism" by Eberhard Busch, translated by William H. Rader