Category: Reformation
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Christian Humanism – A Panacea for the Russian Condition?
In his editorial, In the Power of Murky Intuition, Autocratic Russia is Losing the Instinct of Self-Preservation (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/125354824/posts/4359682819 for my translation), Russian intellectual Aleksandr Tsipko addresses Russia’s propensity, because of its authoritarian power structure, to “eternally intrud[e] into the world of the unpredictable.” This tendency, he argues, is based on an autocratic leader’s irrational intuition,…
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One Holy Catholic Church – Not!
This post is the result of having just read two volumes that offer convincing arguments against the quasi-ecclesiastical organization (this nomenclature is mine and should not be attributed to the authors) called the Roman Catholic Church: A Primer On Roman Catholicism by John Gerstner; and, Evangelical Answers: A Critique of Current Roman Catholic Apologists by…
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Book Review: Melanchthon, The Quiet Reformer by Clyde Leonard Manschreck
Most of us who have an interest in the period of the Protestant Reformation have heard of Philip Melanchthon, but how many are aware that the surname Melanchthon is an ancient Greek translation, and a sort of cryptonym, for the German Schwarzterdt meaning ‘black earth,’ which was the surname with which he was born. [Note:…
The Dragon is Slain 