Evening Prayer

McNiell, John Thomas. The History and Character of Calvinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Dr. McNeill outlines Calvin’s proactive involvement in public education and schools with graded curricula. Also, the plot of land is purchased for the Geneva Academy—with a nice view of the lake (193). Greg Allison’s “Historical Theology:” Prof. Allison outlines Anselm’s honor and satisfaction view of the atonement with nice but brief quotes (395). Edward Cairns’s “Christianity Through the Centuries:” Prof. Cairns comments on the rising middle class and burgher class that brings dissatisfaction with feudalizing ideas, Romanist controls, Romanist drainage of monies of rising nation-states, etc., as an economic factor in the Reformation (305). Millard Erickson’s “Christian Theology:” Erickson finishes his chapter on divine transcendence. We will forego further comment. Justo Gonzalez’s “History of Christianity: Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation:” Prof. Gonzalez further elaborates on Persia, Syria, India, Armenia, Alexandrian and Ethiopic Christianity (257).