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• “Now Thank We All Our God”: the story behind the hymn

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 547
  I think of Martin Rinkart every thanksgiving; his gift of this hymn is simply stunning given the circumstances in which it was written. Read it all--KSH .
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• How to Study Theology - Martin Luther

  
  Emeth Aletheia — Authority: 136
  How to Study Theology - Martin LutherThis is the way taught by holy King David (and doubtlessly used also by all the patriarchs and prophets) in Psalm 119. There you will find three rules, amply presented throughout the whole psalm: prayer (oratio), meditation (meditatio), and testing (tentatio).If, however, you feel ...
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• Featured: PATRON SAINTS FOR POSTMODERNS by Chris Armstrong [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  “Stories to Guide Us” A Review of Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future. By Chris Armstrong. Reviewed by Austen Sandifer-Williams . Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future. By Chris ...
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• Brief Review: AUGUSTINE AND THE JEWS by Paula Fredriksen [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  A Brief Review of Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism . Paula Fredriksen Hardback: Doubleday, 2008. Buy now:  [ ChristianBook.com ] Reviewed by James Spinti. This review originally appeared on James’s blog: http://anebooks.blogspot.com/ It is reprinted here with the ...
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• Brief Review: AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO by Henry Chadwick [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  A Brief Review of Augustine of Hippo: A Life . Henry Chadwick. Hardback: Oxford UP,  2009. Buy now: [ ChristianBook.com ] Reviewed by Chris Smith. Twenty-eight years after its completion, Oxford University Press has finally brought Henry Chadwick’s introductory biography of Augustine to print.  ...
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• Book Bargains… Especially for ERB readers!!! [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  In our continuing effort to fund the publication and free distribution of The Englewood Review, we are going to be collaborating more intentionally with Christian Book Distributors. Primarily, we will be offering you the opportunity to buy bargain books from CBD that we think of are interest. Buying books this way ...
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• Reviewed Elsewhere [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  ERB Editor Chris Smith Reviews Nora Gallagher’s THE SACRED MEAL http://weblog.englewoodcc.com/?p=72 The “Ancient Practices” series from Thomas Nelson – with its deep historical rooting and careful theological attentiveness – is rapidly becoming one of my favorite ongoing series of books. Thus, I was ...
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• Church History in Four Minutes & Quaker Dance Party

  
  zoecarnate — Authority: 521
  It isn’t perfect, but it’s fun: This church produced the video below; the story is told here and here . HT: Liturgy NZ And I discovered video below via Martin Kelley ’s Convergent Friends Ning network (Ning networks are awesome!); Jon Watts is a spoken word artist and multipreneur; his music ...
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• Are you suffering for the real Jesus?

  
  Persecuted Church Weblog — Authority: 134
  You probably didn’t notice, but we recently removed reference to an imprisoned pastor on our websites when we learned that he and the group that he was a part of denied that Jesus is and has always been truly God. Denying the Trinity, they claim that only God the Father is truly and eternally God. Sadly but truly, ...
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• In All Things Give Thanks

  
  The Upward Call — Authority: 501
  Once, again, I am participating in Rebeccas month of thanksgiving, and today, I am thankful for the works of the Reformers, in particular Luther and Calvin.Every Tuesday, I try to write something about what Im learning about in my church history reading, and at the moment, I am reading about the life and theology of ...
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• WHAT IS AN EVANGELICAL ARMINIAN?

  
  Classical Arminianism — Authority: 127
  Calvinist Michael Hortons article, "Evangelical Arminians: Option or Oxymoron?", written in 1992 and still promoted on The White Horse Inn website (as of November 22, 2009), suggests that the words evangelical and Arminian cannot be used in connection with one another. Let us investigate the article as it stands ...
  3 days ago

• Unto the Darkness which is Beyond Light

  
  Blog by-the-Sea — Authority: 126
  " Unto this Darkness which is beyond Light we pray that we may come, and may attain unto vision through the loss of sight and knowledge, and that in ceasing thus to see or to know we may learn to know that which is beyond all perception and understanding (for this emptying of our faculties is true sight and ...
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• St. Gregory Nazianzen: "I went up into the Mount . . . and entered away from matter and material things"

  
  Blog by-the-Sea — Authority: 126
  "What is this that has happened to me, Ofriends, and initiates, and fellow-lovers of the truth? I wasrunning to lay hold on God, and thus I went up into the Mount, and drewaside the curtain of the Cloud, and entered away from matter andmaterial things, and as far as I could I withdrew within myself. And then when I ...
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• An Appreciation of the Family Niebuhr

  
  Levellers — Authority: 415
  UPDATE:  For some reason I felt like reposting this appreciation of the Niebuhrs before writing the next section of my biblical case for Christian pacifism.  I know, I know. A pacifist is not supposed to have good things to say about the ardent opponent of Christian pacifism, Reinhold Niebuhr.  And someone ...
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• Emperor Titus on the Capture of Jerusalem

  
  Sola Dei Gloria — Authority: 482
  As a history buff, I found this translation fascinating. Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus (A.D. 40-81) – Sole Emperor of the Roman Empire 79-81. Comment by Emperor Titus on the Capture of Jerusalem: Emperor Titus Vespasianus – Flavius Philostratus II (c.170-244/249): The Life of Apollonius – ...
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• Life is real

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 141
  After a business meeting in Boston last week, I had two extra hours before I needed to head to the airport. I decided to visit a few historical sites on foot by following Boston’s “Freedom Trail.” At one end of the trail is the “Old North Church,” from which the patriots displayed two lanterns to give ...
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• Calvin on Justification

  
  Pastor's Perspective — Authority: 112
  In the last couple of days I have been reading about the reformation debate between Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto (Bishop of Carpentras in southern France) and John Calvin .  Following Calvin’s banishment from Geneva in April of 1538, Cardinal Sadoleto wrote a letter (March, 1539) to the Genevans with the intent of ...
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• New Book on John Wesley and Methodism

  
  RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY — Authority: 127
  Randall Stephens Cambridge University Press has a marvelous series called the Cambridge Companions to Religion . Of particular interest to readers of this blog will be: Dana Evan Kaplan, ed., The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism (2005); Stephen J. Stein, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards ...
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• Shroud of Turin Seems to Call Jesus a Nazarene Per a Vatican Scholar

  
  Church of God News — Authority: 432
  COGwriterSome text on the Shroud of Turin has been claimed to have been translated: Death certificate is imprinted on the Shroud of Turin, says Vatican scholarThe Times – Nov 20, 2009A Vatican scholar claims to have deciphered the “death certificate” imprinted on the Shroud of Turin, or Holy Shroud, a linen ...
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• Amy Henry—Idle Hands: Some Puritan Advice for the Unemployed

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 547
  Reformer and forefather of much Puritan theology, Martin Luther, in his doctrine of vocation, taught that God gave each individual an occupational "calling." Mans vocation was not seen as impersonal and random, but as from a loving and personal God who bestowed each individual with natural talents and desires for a ...
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