The Law of the Gospel: A Review of Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology in a Time of Protests
Chris E. W. Green considers Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology and asks how we are to handle the troubling history of theology.
Chris E. W. Green considers Philip Cary’s The Meaning of Protestant Theology and asks how we are to handle the troubling history of theology.
The doctrine of vocation, emerging from Martin Luther’s theological genius and taken up by the other Reformers (and handed down to us today) has functioned to bring about the sanctification of ordinary life as Charles Taylor as others have rightfully noticed.[1] Where there was once a hierarchy in which churchly vocations (e.g., monks, priests) were […]
There are plenty of reasons why it’s a bad idea to write a book about ascending spiritual heights. The first is because that book has been written—by Plato (Symposium), Plotinus (Enneads), Pseudo-Dionysius (Mystical Theology), Dante (Divine Comedy), Bonaventure (The Mind’s Journey into God), Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae). There are many more, and they are weirder.