Evening Prayer

McNiell, John Thomas. The History and Character of Calvinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Discusses the political dimension of Geneva and the influence of the Consistory in tightening up regs on prostitution, adultery and other capital offenses as well (189). Greg Allison’s “Historical Theology:” Prof. Allison elaborates on Origen’s theme of the ransom of Christ paid to the Devil, another of Origen fancies (392). In time, the church would sift through his scholarly endeavors and would castigate such. This from the man who literally made himself a eunuch for Christ (Mt.19.12). Edward Cairns’s “Christianity Through the Centuries:” Prof. Cairns offers varied hermeneutical grids for interpreting the Reformation: the classical Protestant, Roman Catholic, Enlightenment views like Voltaire, Marxists, and political historians (302). Millard Erickson’s “Christian Theology:” Erickson offers another sleepy review of divine transcendence with a quick rehash of Kirkegaard’s “nonspatial model” of divine transcendence (315). Shaking the watch to see if it’s working. No exegesis like Reymond, no confessions, no liturgy, no hymns, and little church history. He’s flying solo ops. Justo Gonzalez’s “History of Christianity: Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation:” Prof. Gonzalez notes that Christianity expanded beyond the boundaries of the Roman Empire. He focuses on Syria, Tatian, the Diatessaron and Agbarus’s letter to Jesus (253).