Evening Prayer (Part 2)

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge continued his discussion of Jacob Boehme and other mystics of the Reformation era.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond gloriously talks about Christ’s Pre-existence, His divinity in forgiving sins, and in answering world-wide prayers.

For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof notes talks about the Church’s power.  

ODCC: comments on Sixtus 6, martyred in Rome under Valerian, in 258, the same year as Cyprian in 258.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (0-100) Prof. Schaff continues discussing apocryphal comments allegedly made by Jesus.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff comments on Islamists’ polygamy, slavery and worship.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff gives Jacob Arminius’s tribute to John Calvin.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch comments on Henry’s personalization of the great matter with his ignorant dismissal of Bishop Fisher’s laudable objection with levirate law of Deut. 25. What is incomprehensible, however, is an apparently blind spot by Dr. Cranmer on an obvious objection by Bishop Fisher.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff continued his full-on assault on Vatican 1.

1994 CCC: the infallibilists and absolutists, nouns, verbal, grammar and all, tip-toe through some common utterances about the Trinity. Thank you, B16, but we have solid textbooks for this. Want some recommendations, old boy?

Westminster Larger Catechism 147:

Q. 147. What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?
A. The duties required in the tenth commandment are, such a full contentment with our own condition, and such a charitable frame of the whole soul toward our neighbor, as that all our inward motions and affections touching him, tend unto, and further all that good which is his.