Evening Prayer

McNiell, John Thomas. The History and Character of Calvinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Dr. McNiell speaks of Calvin’s longstanding desire, along with Cranmer, for a pan-Protestant Council to settle and unify the Protestant efforts. Calvin wrote of such to Archbishop Parker in 1560 (200). Greg Allison’s “Historical Theology:” Prof. Allison, having finished with the Socinian view of the non-atonement, turns to Grotius’ governmental theory. The same in kind with Socinus but different in degree—God relaxing justice but maintained enough for governmental administration. Edward Cairns’s “Christianity Through the Centuries:” Prof. Cairns gives some of the backdrop to Luther and the German Reformation, including the heft discontent of Germany being fiscally shaken-down, a sign of false teachers, teaching for hire (312). He structures Luther and Lutheranism from its beginnings to 1555. Millard Erickson’s “Christian Theology:” Prof. Erickson discusses Elohim as a plurality of intensity or majesty. Yet, he strongly indicates support for indications of plurality of Persons in Genesis 1.26ff. and Isaiah 6.8 (328). Justo Gonzalez’s “History of Christianity: Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation:” Prof. Gonzalez’s describes Irish Christianity as it turns to Scotland, England, and, later, Continental operations, e.g., Columba (274).