Evening Prayer (Part 2)

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021) on “Theological Consequences of Q”: Dr. Dawson notes that an expansive and aggregative tradition emerges from this underlying, “original” sayings source, Q. Totally created apart from the canon. It allows for Q people, synagogue reform movement, pre-Pauline Christ cults, Pauline groups, and apocalyptic sects. Bizarre, fictional and entirely created.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge putzes again on mysticism. End it, already, Prof.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond exquisitely concludes his comments on Colossians 2.9 and begins Phil. 2.6-11. High Christology.

For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof notes comments on the views of the Reformed and Lutherans on the three uses of the law.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (0-100) Prof. Schaff repeats again that by Constantine, there are possibly 10-12 million Christians despite all the oppositions of the earlier ages.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff comments on the lead-up to the dust-up on universal jurisdiction. It started in Constantinople with the Patriarch using the title. This will be a story with a centuries’ long history.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff comments on the bizarre benefices to Romish Cardinals, Archdeacons, Bishops and Popes as boys and teen-agers. Even Calvin’s benefice as a Chaplain to Noyon Cathedral, an absentee position, gives money to Cranmer to study in Paris.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch comments on the gadfly Simon Grynaeus on his visit to England, March-Jan 1531, visiting OXBRIDGE and making contacts. Erasmus sends a commendatory letter for Grynaeus which opens doors. He reads the Censurae Determinations, a volume that Cranmer has a hand in. Grynaeus returns to Basel in Jun 1531 wondering how Henry’s marital issue might play helpfully in the Reformist cause. A contact is made between Cranmer and this gadfly.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff notes that Bishop Rienkens, an old Catholic, advocated for Bible reading by those in his Old Catholic diocese. This was radical for Romanists in the 1870s.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs 293-294 reverts to the “Bible and Tradition” for comments on God in creation.

Westminster Larger Catechism

Q. 163. What are the parts of a sacrament?
A. The parts of a sacrament are two; the one an outward and sensible sign, used according to Christ's own appointment; the other an inward and spiritual grace thereby signified.