As a follow-up to the last post, I just learned that The Society for the Study of Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism is starting up again. Anyone interested in being on the mailing list should contact Brock Bingaman at Loyola University Chicago: BBINGAM@LUC.EDU
A poetic inscription on the Lateran Baptistery in Rome gives a wonderful series of theological metaphors for baptism. John F. Baldovin notes that the inscription is “often attributed to the mid-fifth century pope, Sixtus III.” The inscription reads:
“Here is born in Spirit-soaked fertility/ a brood destined for another City,/ begotten by God’s blowing/ and borne [...]
“Indeed, as we have seen, since the Reformation the emphasis has been placed upon the meal, upon the act of communion and upon the real presence. All this is quite right, but the almost exclusive insistence upon these aspects has tended to rivet the attention of theologians in the tradition of the Reformation, on the [...]
Rev. Daniel R. Hyde, pastor of Oceanside United Reformed Church, keeps churning out good books. One I’ve been meaning to recommend for a while is God With Us: Knowing the Mystery of Who Jesus Is. Although not specifically about liturgy, Hyde reminds us of central truths about the One we worship and serve in the Liturgy.
I found [...]
This Christmas, consider supporting the King’s Meadow Endurance Team. George Grant is an advocate for substantive, classical Reformed liturgy, and they have exciting plans to expand into a full liberal arts college!
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Although this site continues to get steady traffic, I find myself too busy in my family and my studies to develop it as it could be. If anyone out there would like to contribute, either as a writer or an editor, let me know. The original vision was for this site to be a resource, [...]
I came across an exciting mission opportunity for academics. This organization sends Christian teachers into other countries, finding positions for them in secular universities. A quote on their home-page says it all:
“The university is a clear-cut fulcrum with which to move the world. Change the university and you change the world,”
declared Dr. Charles Malik, former [...]
A few months ago, there was a discussion here about the merits of Dom Gregory Dix’s The Shape of the Liturgy. I haven’t read Dix (I intend to, someday, out of a sense of duty), but there is a steady stream of search terms leading here (yes, we can see what you’re searching for) having to [...]
A friend of the Institute has started a new resource: Presbyterianbooks.com. Check it out!
There are some encouraging news updates at The Westminster Assembly Project. The project needs more volunteers. I’ve been typing out a copy of Stephen Marshall’s Sermon on Infant Baptism for the project. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we just all stopped debating for a while and helped get a critical edition of the Assembly’s minutes out? Though [...]
