Some of you may have seen this important article over at The Gospel Coalition about the decline and relocation of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) by Collin Hansen, who is a graduate of the school. Reformed Theological Seminary has been friends with TEDS for many years. Over the years, a number of our faculty have done their studies there before coming to RTS, and a number of our graduates have gone on to do doctoral work there. We wish TEDS all the best in this new stage of their institutional life. The last twenty years have been tough for accredited graduate theological education…RTS and the Current State of Theological Education
Some of you may have seen this important article over at The Gospel Coalition about the decline and relocation of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) by Collin Hansen, who is a graduate of the school. Reformed Theological Seminary has been friends with TEDS for many years. Over the years, a number of our faculty have done their studies there before coming to RTS, and a number of our graduates have gone on to do doctoral work there. We wish TEDS all the best in this new stage of their institutional life. The last twenty years have been tough for accredited graduate theological education…
Many of us are familiar with the inspiring story of the audacious German monk, Martin Luther, nailing his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. Lots of us know that one of his great concerns was the doctrine of justification by faith alone. And some of us know that this doctrine has been a hallmark of faithful evangelical preaching ever since. But we may not have ever appreciated just exactly how radical this truth is. Getting Ready to Hear a Radical Truth Justification by faith is one of the most stunning…
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (based Psalm 103/150), 1680 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty is one of the very best hymns (thinking of the combination of text and tune) written in the last three hundred fifty years, and it is no surprise that it is a favorite of our congregation. The text of the song is based on Psalms 103 and 150. In the Scottish Psalter and Church Hymnary of 1929, it finds itself aptly located in the section delineated “God: His Being, Works, Word.” The song’s author was Joachim Neander, the grandson of a…
This day in 1962 (July 5) the famous American neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr died. He wrote an important book Christ and Culture and in his work The Kingdom of God in America he criticized liberal social gospel teaching, describing its core message as: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.” Here’s a short bio: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Helmut_Richard_Niebuhr.aspx
My predecessor and friend Dr. Robert C. (Ric) Cannada, Jr., chancellor emeritus of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS), is spending a lot of time in Indonesia these days, expanding Christian education and fostering an amazing movement…
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,…
I want to commend to you the free RTS Mobile App. You can get it at Apple iTunes and it is now available on the Amazon App store for all Kindle devices! RTS Mobile, the official RTS App, is also available on Android and Windows Phones. We are…
Here’s some good pre-4th of July reading for you from Historian Thomas S. Kidd. Dr. Kidd is a professor at Baylor, an expert in early American history and is the author of a new biography of George Whitefield that is due out this autumn. Here…
Very soon, Banner of Truth Trust will be releasing a new commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith by Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington, DC Associate Professor of Church History, Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn. Here is my commendation of this…