Evening Prayer

McNiell, John Thomas. The History and Character of Calvinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Dr. McNeill describes Psalter developments, a school of music in Geneva, a school for children, and a higher institution to train seminaries and civil servants. Calvin was in that game as a supporter (192). Greg Allison’s “Historical Theology:” Prof. Allison outlines the comprehensive benefits of Christ’s atoning work: propitiation, expiation, reconciliation, strong hints at double imputation, demonstration of God’s love to sinners, and remission of sin with eternal life and an escape from death. Christ is the Offerer and Offering and He offers Himself to God for His people (394). Edward Cairns’s “Christianity Through the Centuries:” Prof. Cairns warns against dismissing the economic, political, intellectual and moral influences in the Reformation (304). Millard Erickson’s “Christian Theology:” nothing is notable as Prof. Erickson closes the section on divine transcendence. The Prof. prefers solo-ops with few references to the voices of the past. We soldier on. Justo Gonzalez’s “History of Christianity: Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation:” Prof. Gonzalez traces Christian developments in Persia, Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Coptic Christianity in Ethiopia (256).