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Peter Gay on medieval science
It is a common misconception that the medieval Christians were unconcerned with all scientific inquiry. Peter Gay, in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (New York: Norton, 1986), corrects … more →
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Peter Gay on medieval science
Ryan Martin wrote 3 months ago: It is a common misconception that the medieval Christians were unconcerned with all scientific inqui … more →
Why you space out during prayer, Bible reading, and corporate worship
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Ryan Martin wrote 5 months ago: As a Christian, John Owen argued, you have a responsibility to be on alert against the noetic affect … more →
A relevant word about 335 years old
Ryan Martin wrote 5 months ago: While reading some John Owen recently I thought that the following remark was particularly “re … more →
Qualifying remarks on the importance of devotions in sanctification
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Ryan Martin wrote 5 months ago: This is the kind of piece that begs misunderstanding, so allow me to begin by saying that I myself m … more →
How I became a "Calvinist" (and it wasn't because of Piper or MacArthur)
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Ryan Martin wrote 5 months ago: In some respects, I should not call myself a Calvinist. The real Calvinists would get upset. Who can … more →
Jonathan Edwards: Preach on Hell
Ryan Martin wrote 6 months ago: Again, Jonathan Edwards, in his Distinguishing Marks: If there be really a hell of such dreadful, an … more →
Dan Brown on pastoral prayer
Ryan Martin wrote 6 months ago: The seminary I attend recently started a blog, and I want to highlight a helpful post by the practic … more →
After the races, or the theater, or a concert, or a dinner, or still lower employments
Ryan Martin wrote 7 months ago: Vladimir Kharlamov observes, Theology in the fourth century, perhaps like sports today, appears to h … more →
The use of the law in evangelism
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Ryan Martin wrote 7 months ago: Doug Moo gives this thought-provoking perspective on the use of the law in evangelism: . . . the pop … more →
All Christians should strive after an increase of knowledge; and none should content themselves without some clear and distinct understanding in this point
Ryan Martin wrote 8 months ago: How important is the doctrine of justification of faith alone? How much should the average Christian … more →
Is justification dependent upon perseverance?
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Ryan Martin wrote 8 months ago: Jonathan Edwards is here specifically addressing the question of whether justifying faith is a perse … more →
Calvin on the right use of the Lord's Supper
Ryan Martin wrote 8 months ago: Calvin wrote in his treatise on the Lord’s Supper, Let us come to the . . . right use, which c … more →
Receiving Christ in all his offices
Ryan Martin wrote 9 months ago: Jonathan Edwards believed that, while justification was through faith alone, a necessary fruit of fa … more →
Delighted in by true saints
Ryan Martin wrote 9 months ago: Jonathan Edwards, in his “Controversies” notebook on justification: This grace of God ma … more →
Faith, the expression of our receiving Christ
Ryan Martin wrote 9 months ago: Is faith virtuous in itself? Is faith a work that whereby we gain or earn an interest in Christ? Jon … more →
Indifferentism
Ryan Martin wrote 9 months ago: If you spend any time around Central Baptist Theological Seminary, you are bound to hear the word … more →
Doctrine Without Scripture?
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R. Scott Clark wrote 10 months ago: It appears that Mike Bird has offered some criticisms of our May 2004 faculty Statement on Justifica … more →
Thanksgiving Prayer
Ryan Martin wrote 12 months ago: Today at our family’s feast I read this prayer I had stumbled upon in the Book of Common Praye … more →
Jonathan Edwards's argument that God's foreknowledge determines that future volitions of men are necessary
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Ryan Martin wrote 1 year ago: What follows is my summary of the 12th section of the 2d part of Jonathan Edwards’s Freedom of … more →
