Long ago, St. Augustine of Hippo wrote a book commonly called "The City of God". In it he chronicled that: "we have learned that there is a city of God, and its Founder has inspired us with a love which makes us covet its citizenship. To this Founder of the holy city the citizens of the earthly city prefer their own gods, not knowing that He is the God of gods" - St. Augustine … [Read more...]
The Theology of the Cross in the Lives of (Bl.) Martin Luther & St. Francis
Martin Luther taught in his Heidelberg Disputation of 1518, that there were two ways of doing theology. The first was the 'theology of glory'. It meant using human reason to mix philosophy and theology into a clean system whereby God aided man in his natural striving for the good. It was a theology that made sense, and was optimistic about man's intellectual and moral … [Read more...]
The Father of Modern Missions – William Carey (Part 2)
"One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer. However the influence of the Holy Spirit may be set at nought, and run down by many, it will be found upon trial, that all means which we can use, without it, will be ineffectual. If a temple is raised for God in the heathen world, it will not be by might, nor by … [Read more...]
The Freedom of the Will: John Calvin & Justin Martyr & Martin Luther
St. Augustine of Hippo One of the fundamentally differing premises between Catholicism and Protestantism, was the doctrine of the human will. Where Catholics argued that the will was weakened by original sin, but free to do good or evil, Protestants argued that the will was free only to choose between sins; free only to do evil. Here's a quotation from John Calvin's "The … [Read more...]
The Alluring Call of Lutheran Anti-nomianism
"2 Cor 3, 5–6 Paul writes:"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves;but our sufficiency is of God, who also hath made us able ministers of the NewTestament; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but thespirit giveth life." The apostle speaks of this apostolic activity. Preachers of this Christian era must bear in mind … [Read more...]