Evening Prayer

For Theology Proper (locus 2), Prof. Reymond hits a grand-slam homerun as he opens up the eternal decrees of God. It’s simply glorious. The first several paragraphs would be well to be memorized by divinity student. Classical and Dr. Reymond at his finest. For Eschatology (locus 7), Prof. Berkhof notes that Christ’s second coming will be visible, sudden, personal, glorious, triumphant and final. He quotes the opposite views of the decadent Protestants with their amnesia and reductionism of the second coming being progressivism. ODCC: Victorinus (4th century): north African rhetorician, convert, and teacher at Rome who, apparently, was an influence on Augustine. Victorinus wrote poems and theological pieces. For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff offers a taxonomy of the Greek, Russian, and Oriental Orthodox Churches. For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff notes the close and life-long friendship between Melanchthon and Calvin, despite difference on the Bone-Munchy-Crunchy view. Latimer and Ridley both believed that Luther could not evade the transubstantiation issue—to wit, transubstantiation by different arguments and without Aristotle and Aquinas. For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch deals with Cranmer’s examinations of English Anabaptists. Munster is fresh on the minds of those on the Continent and England. For the Creeds of Christendom, Vol. 1, Prof. Schaff continues to discuss Agricola’s view of law and Gospel, tossing the law and making the Gospel law and Gospel. A serious and fruitless logomachy. 1994 CCC: our infallibilists, once again, far outshine the decadent Protestants on this portion of Christology. Westminster Confession of Faith 7.1: CHAPTER 7 Of God's Covenant with Man 1. The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.