Evening Prayer (Part 2)

For Systematic Theology (locus 2), Prof. Hodge is discussing Rome’s claims for unwritten verities and the impossibilities of such.

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond introduces the Christology of Hebrews.

For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof is still dealing with infant baptism, the sign and seal for infants under both administrations of the same covenant of grace.

ODCC: Origen (185-254): a fertile and productive writer: Hexapla, scholia on Exodus and almost all the books of the Bible, homilies and more.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff is, with wobbles and certitudes, rebutting the Tubingen, Hegelian, Peter v. Paul tirades. We surmise that Schaff is nonetheless influenced by “progressivism.”  

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff introduces Charlemagne (768-814).

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff cites Calvin as the ghost-writer for Nicholas Cop’s inaugural sermon as Rector of the Sorbonne—citing Rome as having nothing about faith, love of God, remission of sins, grace, justification and the NT, but who pervert and undermine the church. The sermon calls for no tolerance for heresies and abuses. This is 10 Oct 1533. If so, Calvin’s a meagre 24-year old.

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch discusses Sir George Elyot’s “Pasquinade,” a genre of satire.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff tries to explain Luther, Melancthon and the “stern Calvin.” We’ve been here before, Prof, move along.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #350-356 explains man, angels and creation (minus angel veneration) in ways that rise above the modern Protestant palaver.

Westminster Larger Catechism 177:

Q. 177. Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper differ?
A. The sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper differ, in that baptism is to be administered but once, with water, to be a sign and seal of our regeneration and ingrafting into Christ, and that even to infants; whereas the Lord's supper is to be administered often, in the elements of bread and wine, to represent and exhibit Christ as spiritual nourishment to the soul, and to confirm our continuance and growth in him, and that only to such as are of years and ability to examine themselves.