Evening Prayer

McNiell, John Thomas. The History and Character of Calvinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Dr. McNeil tells of the founding of Geneva Academy with its ground-breaking, funding, and slow building, but the hiring of Beza as Rector in 1559 (193). Greg Allison’s “Historical Theology:” Prof. Allison outlines Anselm’s honor and satisfaction view of the atonement with nice but brief quotes (395-396). On no! That’s so violent! Can’t we just shift over to the Exemplar and Government theories? These old dusty books and allusions to Anselm are so un-necessary in 2022! Get me a bib and rubber pacifier! Edward Cairns’s “Christianity Through the Centuries:” Prof. Cairns discusses the stand-off between Thomism with the wounded will accessing the sacramental gas-stations for salvation-by-the-installment-plan via the hierarchy and Augustine’s grace model. The Reformers followed Augustine but discovered justification by Christ alone by grace alone and double-imputation (306). History was changed. Millard Erickson’s “Christian Theology:” Prof. Erickson will discuss the Biblical teaching on the Trinity, the unity of God, the deity of the Three, Three-in-Oneness, economic views, dynamic Monarchianism, modalist Monarchianism, the Nicene formulation, the essential element in the Trinitarian discussion and the search for analogies (321). 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, Bulgaria, Ireland and areas unaffected by barbarian raids (257-258).