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Written By: Mark on December 30, 2009 No Comment
Calvin’s Contemporaries: Bullinger, Musculus & Vermigli

In this second section of Richard Muller’s, Christ and the Decree, he investigates three influential reformers who were contemporaries of John Calvin: Bullinger, Musculus, and Vermigli.  Unlike the Lutheran tradition, of whom Martin Luther was the source, the Reformed tradition had many influences apart of John Calvin.  Since this is the [...]

Written By: Mark on December 17, 2009 10 Comments
Advent Thoughts #2: Destruction

From looking at Water as the first metaphor Peter employs to speak of cataclysmic return of Christ, we saw that the destruction of Noah’s day was not an annihilation, but we were left with a question: what sort of flood-destruction is coming on the Day of the Lord? Is it a complete annhilation, [...]

Written By: Mark on December 16, 2009 One Comment
Christ and the Decree: Calvin

Richard Muller’s Christ and the Decree is an historical account of the development of theological thought from the Reformation through to the Post-Reformation, more precisely, of Christology and Predestination from Calvin to Perkins. I’m reading this with a [...]

Written By: Mark on December 15, 2009 No Comment
Pilgrim’s Podcast #22: Ryan Smartt, Chaplaincy at Scots College, and Leadership in Life

Well, we’re back on the Poddy after a short hiatus sitting exams.  Oh, and a well-deserved holiday of course! But we’ve been scheming the next year’s Pilgrim’s Podcast plan of action! Exciting.

This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Smartt, who is the head of Christian studies at

Written By: Mark on December 14, 2009 No Comment
Advent Thoughts #1: Water

One of the things which I used to believe was that when the Lord Jesus returns, the present physical universe would cease to exist. That it would be obliterated! And this all prior to the new creation forming out of nothing, ex nihilo as per the Genesis account of creation. I fair while [...]

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