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
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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 [...]
Earlier, I was wondering why priests in older rites face the altar, rather than the people. Now, consider the question of when he should eat. Should he eat first, or should he wait for the rest of the congregation to be served? The main argument I’ve heard for waiting is a slim appeal to 1 [...]
Question 2: did Calvin want to reinstate episcopacy?
Prompted by: “Later, when he [Calvin] had come to realize the fact that the episcopate made its appearance in the Church as a stable authority to succeed that of the apostles after their departure, there is no doubt that he wished to reconstitute in his churches a kind [...]
I’m trying to limit the time I spend blogging, but I thought I’d use this forum to pose questions raised by my studies.
Question 1 - what historical or theological reasons are there for the priest/presbyter to face the altar during the Eucharist?
Prompted by William D. Maxwell: “In the primitive Church, as in the Reformed churches [...]
Here an Orthodox lawyer responds to Doug Wilson’s short critique of Eastern Orthodoxy. I really don’t want to appear to join the throng of frothing-at-the-mouth Wilson-bashers, especially since he was my pastor and teacher for 4 years. However, in the interests of pure historical research, and of understanding our Eastern brothers (however much we may [...]
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 [...]
(Following are questions generated by my studies. As yet, they are unanswered. Feel free to answer them, or direct me to sources that will! Otherwise, they will stand as testimonies to my ignorance, and remind me to keep looking for clues … 
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1) Did Abraham Kuyper believe in baptismal regeneration? Leonard J. Vander Zee claims he [...]
