Archive - Exploring Church History

Douglas Sweeney on Theology in Time and Space

As the church gathers Sunday after Sunday, and as it scatters throughout each week, what effect does theology have on the people?

Mar 21 •

David Barshinger

February 2024

January 2024

James Eglinton’s Modern and Orthodox Bavinck

In Bavinck: A Critical Biography (Baker Academic, 2020), James Eglinton gives us a nuanced Herman Bavinck, one who resists previous biographical…

Jan 13 •

David Barshinger

November 2022

Thomas Kidd on Thomas Jefferson, a Man of Contradictions

In a day when the founding fathers of the United States either are elevated with paeans of praise or have fallen from grace among the woke, it’s hard to…

Nov 5, 2022 •

David Barshinger

May 2022

Thomas Chalmers and the Need for a New Affection

Jonathan Edwards is perhaps the Christian theologian who has spoken in greatest detail about the affections—with his theology of the affections captured…

May 9, 2022 •

David Barshinger

February 2022

Gregory of Nazianzus on Jesus as God in Human Flesh

The incarnation should never cease to amaze us.

Feb 22, 2022 •

David Barshinger

January 2022

John Calvin’s Brief Definition of Christianity

In studying Paul’s epistles to the Thessalonians, John Calvin sheds light on the basics of Christianity.

Jan 3, 2022 •

David Barshinger

December 2021

Stephen Charnock and What God’s Power Tells Us about the Incarnation

In the Puritan Stephen Charnock’s magnum opus, The Existence and Attributes of God (1682), he devotes his tenth discourse (of fourteen lengthy…

Dec 23, 2021 •

David Barshinger

November 2021

Allen C. Guelzo on Robert E. Lee

Mention the name Robert E.

Nov 17, 2021 •

David Barshinger

October 2021

Basil the Great on the Holy Spirit

Athanasius’s On the Incarnation is a classic work of Christian literature—one that deserves to be read by all believers.

Oct 14, 2021 •

David Barshinger

September 2021

Stephen Charnock on God’s Delight in Answering Prayer

The Puritan Stephen Charnock (1628–1680) is perhaps best remembered for his two-volume magnum opus The Existence and Attributes of God, which contains…

Sep 27, 2021 •

David Barshinger

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