Tag Archives: john calvin

Review: Morality after Calvin

Posted on July 24, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Summers, Kirk.  Morality After Calvin.  New York: Oxford, 2017. Kirk Summers documents and illustrates the problems facing the Genevan church after Calvin’s death, as illustrated in Theodore Beza’s Cato. While Beza will defend natural law, he has no interest in constructing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, Church History | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Outline: Book 2, Calvin’s Institutes

Posted on June 17, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Book 1. Summary of argument so far:  Doctrine of the Knowledge of God –> Man’s problem –> Ten Commandments –> Old and New Covenants  –> Person of the Mediator. BOOK 2: THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE REDEEMER IN CHRIST, FIRST … Continue reading →

Posted in Church History, theology | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Review: Calvin and the Calvinists (Paul Helm)

Posted on May 20, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Overview:  early summary of the Calvin vs the Calvinists debate but excluding the Barth factor. Application for today:  Good early rebuttal against some Federal Visionists who sometimes tend to pit Calvin against Calvinists. This is an early response to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, Church History, theology | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Speak ye not of Calvin

Posted on December 17, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

I’ve read through the Institutes 3 times.  It’s good, I guess.  I just don’t really resonate towards Calvin.  And until 1800, that was more or less the impression in the Reformed world.  So why are people so concerned to tag … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

On the mediator, some sources

Posted on November 6, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

My sources come from an old debate at Lane Keister’s blog.  The main Reformed guy in the debate has since apostasized, so I am not using his name–and in any case, I “internalized” these sources and made them my own … Continue reading →

Posted in Scholasticism | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Review of Frame’s Western Philosophy

Posted on December 30, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

This review is dedicated to Kevin Johnson. I won’t give a whole review of each thinker in this book.  I’ve done some of that here. https://patristicevangelism.wordpress.com/category/john-frame-2/ What new material can a survey of Philosophy cover? I was wrong.  Frame’s text … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, Philosophy | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Frame: Early Modern Thought

Posted on December 28, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

This is the densest chapter so far and represents the thrust of the book.  Frame’s text is lighter on early and medieval thought and more weighted towards the modern era.  Not a criticism.  Just an observation. Thesis: The two renaissance … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

Torrance: Theology in Reconstruction

Posted on December 24, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

Torrance advances the argument that theological knowledge and its communication must make use of the thought-currents and speech in the world. He makes the claim that Homoousion as the basic logical economy which governs theological grammar in accordance with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, theology | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Reading thinkers, not individual books

Posted on December 22, 2015 by J. B. Aitken

You will often see it suggested that one is better served by reading the corpus of major thinkers rather than simply individual books.  I think there is some wisdom to that.  So here is my reading list for 2016, Deo … Continue reading →

Posted in Autobiography | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment