The Oneness of God Christian praise of the Trinity is praise of the one God. The oneness of God is intrinsic to the first and greatest commandment of the Old and New Testaments. Moses proclaims God’s oneness and calls Israel to acknowledge God’s singular worth by loving him with all their heart, soul, and might […]
Heinrich Bullinger’s “Decades”: Excerpts from the OHRT
Below is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology , by Bruce Gordon. Dr. Gordon is Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School and is the author of Calvin and John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. Bullinger’s theme is clearly established in the opening words of the first […]
Martin Bucer’s “Kingdom of Christ”: Excerpts from the OHRT
Below is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology , by Scott Amos. Dr. Amos is Professor of History at the University of Lynchburg. De Regno Christi was not written as a theological treatise in the same sense as the works discussed elsewhere in the present volume, but rather as a call […]
Neither angel nor animal: the place of emotions in human being and wellbeing
Review: The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology, by Matthew A. LaPine “What is man?” (Ps 8:4). The psalmist’s question is not after a definition, much less a metaphysical description of human beings. His question expresses wonder at humankind’s place in the cosmos. Made “a little lower than the angels,” as the Septuagint has […]
“Reformed Theology in the Context of the Reformation(s)”: Excerpts from the OHRT
Below is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology , by Carl Trueman. Dr. Trueman received his PhD in Church History from the University of Aberdeen. He is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College. The origins of the major confessional division between Luther and the Reformed lie in […]
“Reformed Theology and Medieval Theology”: Excerpts from the OHRT
Below is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology , by Christopher Cleveland. Dr. Cleveland received his Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, where he studied under Professor John Webster. His research focuses on the relationship between medieval and Reformed thought. He is the author of Thomism in John Owen. Reformed theology […]
