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Archive for April, 2009

Was Constantine a Blessing or a Curse for Christ’s Church?

Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Resolved:  The Emperor Constantine was a blessing for God’s people and an instrument for good in God’s plan for the nations to serve His Son, Jesus Christ as prophesied in Psalm 2.

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Beyond Tenebrae: Citizenship in a Republic of Letters

Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

[Hillsdale College, Convocation Address, April 16, 2009]
Bradley Birzer
President Arnn, colleagues, students, and guests, I thank you profoundly for asking me to speak.
Darkness
Today is Easter Thursday, 2009, and we have passed beyond, at least in this Christian liturgical season, the time of great darkness, the time known as Tenebrae, the hours after 3pm on Good Friday, [...]

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Eucatastrophe: A Maundy Thursday Mediation

Posted in Misc., Nature and Grace, Theology, Uncategorized on April 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »

O Happy Fault!  
I have been thinking about the fall.  What tragedy.  Adam had it all.  A pretty wife (who was naked all the time), an productive farm, and a good job (farmer, priest, king).  Adam never got sick, had no fear of death, and walked with God in familial communion.  He was the son [...]

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What’s New About the New Calvinists?

Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »

The world’s abuzz about the “New Calvinists” but are they really new? Are we not  talking about the same old “new light”, “new school”, Awakening, Revivalist, democratized, populist Calvinism that has been the dominated, (despite the efforts of Old Westminster, and really Old Princeton) the Reformed wing of evangelicalism for the last [...]

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Solution to the Notre Dame Problem

Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »

With Cardinal DiNardo’s denunciation of Notre Dame’s invitation to President Obama, Hillsdale College Associate Provost, David Whalen, had this solution to offer yesterday:
“Good for the Cardinal.
Call me a cynic, but all of this–and more–must have gone into the calculations at the University in considering whether to issue the invitation. None of this hurts them. In [...]

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