by Brett Williams | Mar 21, 2017 | Augustine, Culture, What We're Reading
Two cities, two peoples. Here So the people of God are physically within Babylon, and are also inhabitants of Babylon. There is friction between the two. The horizon of Babylon is this life, that of the members of the city of God, God’s eternity, and the coming of the...
by Brett Williams | Feb 23, 2017 | Resources, Textual Criticism
Peter Gurry (PhD Cambridge) offers a balanced, evangelical review of Anthony Le Donne’s book What Can We Know and How Can We Know It? It’s worth a look. Moreover, “the best explanation of many textual variants” in the Gospels is not “that there was no one...
by Brett Williams | Dec 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Christmas came early for me this year. After several years of desire, my parents bought me prints of two of my favorite paintings: “Quid veritas est?” and ” Last Supper,” both painted by my Russian realist, Nikolai Ge (1831-1894). Ge is...
by Brett Williams | Dec 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
In the latest Helm’s Deep – Modern Trinitarian fads vs. Augustine, Calvin The Trinity is used in another way as a ‘model’ of being human. Moderns have postulated what have always seemed to me to be extravagant ideas about the imago as relations...
by Brett Williams | Nov 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
John Witvliet, a scholar from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, presented an excellent paper entitled, “Protestant Suspicion of Liturgical Form: The Curious Case of Abraham Kuyper.” In his presentation, Witvliet explored Kuyper’s oft-changing and...
