Warfield & Inspiration: The Sufficiency of Scripture
B.B. Warfield is well known for his writings on the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture. The rise in higher criticism and schools of thought that cast doubt upon the origins…
Amy Mantravadi
The Family Altar (3)
The family worship (see parts #1, #2) that Oliver Heywood envisioned contained three basic elements: reading scripture, singing Psalms, and prayer. To this we might add reading from works of…
The Family Altar (2)
In The Family Altar, the Puritan writer Oliver Heywood makes the case for family or household worship. We have already discussed Heywood’s belief that family worship is essential for the…
Classic Theism: Trinitarian Errors
“Let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me…” (Jeremiah 9:24a) That verse captures the goal of Trinitarian theology: to know the amazing God that we…
The Family Altar (1)
If there is one Christian book that everyone seems to be talking about this year, it is The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher. Subtitled “A Strategy for Christians in a…
Luther’s Theology: The Will’s Bondage
The Bondage of the Will is one of Martin Luther’s most important and enduring works. It represents his greatest defense of the doctrine of predestination and was written as a…
Luther’s Life: A Curse Upon Erasmus!
“Whenever I pray, I pray for a curse upon Erasmus.” That quote appears in Martin Luther’s Table Talk, the same place where he called the Prince of the Humanists “the…
Anne Bradstreet on Morality
“Many speak well, but few can do well.” Thus wrote Anne Bradstreet, America’s first poet and a witness to Puritan thought. In her “Meditations Divine and Moral,” she makes a…
Anne Bradstreet’s Doubts
One of the most interesting things about the Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet (see posts #1 & #2 in this series) is that she actually admitted to having doubts about her…
Anne Bradstreet on the English Civil War
Without a doubt, the political event that had the greatest impact on the life of Anne Bradstreet was the English Civil War that began in 1642 and effectively ended with…
A Bio of Anne Bradstreet
The persecution faced by many English Puritans caused some of them to seek out the New World, where they would be able to operate according to their own religious principles…