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Campus ministry is one of the most formative training grounds for future church leaders. Don’t waste the opportunity.
The title of this book, Conservative in Theology, Liberal in Spirit, comes from a 1927 answer given to an American journalist, Charles Selden, who was enquiring whether or not the PCUSA missionaries in Thailand were fundamentalists. The answer given by the executive secretary of the PCUSA mission in Thailand, Paul Eakon, reads, “Mr. Selden, I should say that almost all of our Mission, both old and young, are conservative in Theology, and liberal in their spirit” (p. xxi). The book is an exposition of that quotation in many ways. Eakon, in the modernist-leaning camp, was very careful in what he...
Richard Burnett’s new biography of J. Gresham Machen tells the compelling story of Machen’s transformation “from a modernist to an anti-modernist” (p. 3) during his tenure as a student, and later as a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. According to Burnett, a close examination of Machen’s writings and personal correspondence makes it clear that, despite what previous biographers have insisted, Machen ought not to be regarded as a “die-hard defender of Old Princeton” (p. 289) who was determined—throughout the entirety of his tenure at Princeton—to march in lockstep with the heritage of Old Princeton Seminary. Instead, he ought to be...
Themelios readers who have already taken courses in church history have likely seen this discipline as a division of theology. Church history is frequently understood to be the study of great theologians, their controversies, and their epoch-making books. Consequently, teachers of church history today are often located within departments of systematic and historical theology, with some instructors teaching both disciplines. Such was the reviewer’s own exposure to church history half a century ago, and this pattern—if anything—has grown more prevalent. In the reviewer’s mind, this long-established pattern demonstrates church history’s vulnerability; it is one of the first disciplines to be...
Honor Thy Fathers is part historical retrieval and part present-day polemic. Following up on his more exegetically based book, Masculine Christianity, pastor and author Zachary Garris sets out to enlist historic Reformed theologians in a contemporary battle over the future of the PCA (and, more broadly, evangelicalism). A reader’s response to the book will largely be determined by where they sit in that contemporary battle—but no matter where you’re perched, you’ll have something to gain (and wrestle with) from this volume. Part 1 is titled “A Reformed Theology of Male Rule.” In three chapters, Garris assembles a wealth of quotations...