Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Calvin's Commentary on Joshua


http://books.google.com/books?id=qOeT6QmKXs8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=john+calvin+commentaries&hl=en&ei=P3WSTJSwA8SblgeRkvSmCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

Calvin's Commentary on Joshua is a commendable read. Sagacious, terse, grammatico-historically oriented, and--as expected--quite theocentric and covenantal.

Arminius was probably right--that Calvin alone was probably "heads and shoulders" above all previous church fathers, including Augustine.

Arminius's proposition is worth entertaining and examining more fully--a huge, but worthy task.

Many comment on Calvin through received tradition and secondary sources. It is far better to return to the sources--at fontes. Calvin is readable and lucid--for Theologians and Pastors, even serious Churchmen, he is not inaccessible.

We recently read some comments about the UK, to wit, that no one appreciates the biblical narrative--to do so invites ridicule. Rather overstated we suspect, but probably with some truth. Reading Calvin alongside an English Bible is edifying.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow neat! This is a really great site! I am wondering if anyone else has come across something
exactly the same in the past? Keep up the great work!

Reformation said...

Will finish Calvin on Joshua this weekend. Up through chapter 16.