The Good and Bad of Retrieval Theology
By elevating Thomas to almost canonical status, well-intentioned retrieval theologians may well have opened a floodgate that won’t be shut before many have abandoned Protestantism.
By elevating Thomas to almost canonical status, well-intentioned retrieval theologians may well have opened a floodgate that won’t be shut before many have abandoned Protestantism.
Calvin’s letters verify the notion of a communion of the saints that exists beyond the walls of the local church.
To be Protestant is to be catholic. But not Roman.
Neo-Calvinism was first a theological movement that tried to articulate a vision for what it could look like to be a Calvinist in the modern, ever-changing world of the 20th century and beyond.
Far from affirming the bare memorialism 19th-century Baptists would come to embrace, Haykin argues that Christ, by the Holy Spirit, is present to the faith of the recipients of each ordinance.