Morning Prayer & the Litany

For Psalm 19, Prof. Calvin discussing the pure and enduring Canon.

ISBE on the dating of Exodus: Prof. R. K. Harrison begins a discussion of Egyptian evidences for a 13^th century exodus.

For Genesis 3.9-15: Prof. Keil helpfully comments on how the creation itself is dragged into judgment, e.g., Romans 8.21-22, the groaning of creation for redemption.

For Judges 1.1-7, Prof. Keil addresses the first foray by Judah and Simeon against the Canaanites.

For Isaiah 7.17-25, Prof. Henry comments on more divine judgments.

ISBE on Mark: Dr. R. P. Martin offers an explanation for the shorter ending at 16.8, ending on a note of reverence and fear over the resurrection Christ.

For Mathew 5.29ff., Prof. Jamieson comments on the text to pluck the eye out or cut off the hand rather than to be cast into hell with them. He is going to the heart of the issue—the inward and spiritual intents and applications of the moral law on the 6^th and 7^th commandments.

For Romans 3.21-31, Prof. Hodge focused on “propitiation” or “hilasteriov.”

For Revelation 17.7-12, Prof. Henry discusses the Fall of Babylon. The term “Babylon” is open to manifold applications.

EDT on the theological liberalism, so called: Henry Fosdick is one front man and pitcher: theological words, categories and confessions are incomprehensible to moderns and those things must be adapted to modernity. Or, a warm invitation to the academics to be Scripture twisters.

In the Global Anglican, Philip Keen gets wonky with statistics to evaluate the 5 Anglican churches re: preaching the “whole counsel of God.”

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021) on “Theological Consequences of Q”: Dr. Dawson notes that the 2DH-theory is a product of its times. He cites W.H. Farmer, to wit, who “drank deeply of the cup of salvation by the cult of scientism” and who founded the “Oxford School of Synoptic Criticism.

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge talked about heterodox Quakers, essentially mystics in contrast to orthodox Quakers.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond continues his detailed exegesis of Romans 1.3-4 on the human and divine nature of the God-man.

For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof focused on the ministry to the sick and poor as a necessary work of the church.

ODCC: Anglicanism: comments on the Non-Jurors, Deism, Evangelical revivals, the Oxford movement and the “considerable infiltration” in the late 19^th-early 20^th century of “liberal theology.”  

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (0-100) Prof. Schaff continues to expound the “hallucination” or “vision” theory of the resurrection.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff spouts his spiel about the superiority of historians in his age.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff offers a balanced, critical and salutary encomium of Calvin by Prof. William Cunningham (1805-1861), church historian at New College, Edinburgh University.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch notes more disbursements of benefices, quid pro quo, “payment for results.” Barlow gets the rich benefice of the Deanery of Westbury-on-Trym from Ghinnuci, the Italian champion of Henry’s cause in Rome and colleague of Dr. Cranmer in Rome in 1530. Cardinal Campeggio, the double-dealer and absentee Italian Bishop of Salisbury, awards the royal protégé, Old Hugh Latimer, a rich benefice on West Kington in Wiltshire on 14 Jan 1531 (50).

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff brings his discussion on Vatican 1 to an end.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists give an exquisite section on the Trinity with an excellent quote from Gregory of Nazianzus.