Not a scuttling underbelly

Unlike the scuttling basements of many a blog page, the comments section of Christ the Truth is its most redeeming feature.  For those who only get the RSS feed you are missing out. I thought I’d give you excerpts from some of Paul Blackham’s comments which would otherwise languish in the blog’s underbelly. Jesus – [...]

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A conversation between Calvin and Barth on revelation

CALVIN:  Above all we must recognize that God stoops to reveal Himself. BARTH:  Above all we must recognize that God stoops to reveal Himself. CALVIN:  No but it’s a stooping revelation. BARTH:  Yes but it’s a stooping revelation. CALVIN:  But what we see is God in His condescension. BARTH:  Amen!  We see God in His [...]

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Calvin on Christ the object of OT faith

This is Calvin’s preface to the French Bible.  He wrote it a year after his conversion!  It’s full of some wonderful things but I’ll just quote him on the promises and then the patterns of Christ in the OT. Notice that Calvin considered the Old Testament saints to have consciously understood these promises and patterns.  [...]

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Calvin – theologian of union with Christ

Here’s 5 minutes with Lane Tipton.  Or just read the summary quotes below.  Good stuff. ht Bobby. “In the contemporary setting today… there is a tendency to emphasize the forensic element of the gospel as being perhaps the whole gospel, such that justification begins to eclipse the very Person of Christ Himself.” [Instead Calvin's theology [...]

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Christ our Fountain of Blessing

“We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ (Acts 4:12). We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is of him (1 Corinthians 1:30). If we [...]

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Calvin on the proper and the accidental office of the gospel

Last week Dave Kirkman helped me to distinguish between what Luther called God’s ‘alien work’ and His ‘proper work’. Death is the alien work.  Life through death is gospel and God’s proper work.  But it’s extremely important not to view death and life as equivalents in God’s eyes.  One is the alien work, transformed by [...]

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Might…

Hilarious! From Tony Reinke .  

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The classical reformed position

In this comment on another blog Mo has claimed that classical reformed theologians were not interested in identifying which Person of the trinity is talking in the OT. When it comes to appearances of the LORD and when it comes to the Angel of the LORD, that couldn’t be further from the truth. I could [...]

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Calvin on Christ in OT

The excellent Marc Lloyd has posted the juciest quotation on Christ the Mediator of all revelation.  It’s from Ronald Wallace’s book Calvin’s Doctrine of Word and Sacrament.  Here he is summarizing Calvin’s view especially of christocentric revelation in the OT. The Mediator of all revelation between God and man in the Old Testament is the Word of God, the [...]

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Assurance in the Reformed Tradition

Over at White to Harvest there are some very stimulating discussions of election and assurance going on – see here and the comments here.   But just to stick up for the reformed tradition, here are (very selective!) quotations from three of the greats.  Not to say that these are consistently followed by each theologian or their [...]

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