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- [The Wizard of Aquino and the Future of Protestant Retrieval](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-wizard-of-aquino-and-the-future-of-protestant-retrieval/) - 1. Anxiety in the Land of the Living Is theological retrieval dangerous? At least, is it dangerous for Protestants? With the growth of the modern retrieval movement amongst Protestants, it’s bound to be asked ad nauseam with every “conversion” to Rome or Protestant-lite group. In other words, does reading too much Thomas, or fill-in-the-blank patron
- [Is Baptism a Seal? John Gill and Baptist Sacramentalism](https://thelondonlyceum.com/is-baptism-a-seal/) - Sometimes Baptists get accused of having a deficient sacramentology. Admittedly, this is true of some Baptists. As Baptists have engaged with the broader Reformed tradition, the discussion has historically focused on the subjects of baptism (believers only or also the infants of believers) and the mode of baptism (immersion or sprinkling/pouring). But as Michael Haykin
- [Jonathan Edwards Studies is at a Dead End](https://thelondonlyceum.com/jonathan-edwards-studies-is-at-a-dead-end/) - This is not an article on Jonathan Edwards’ culpability as a slaveholder. Nor is this article about all of Edwards scholarship—studies on Edwards’ exegesis and pastoral ministry are, by and large, still going strong. However, a series of factors over the last few years have conspired to severely decrease the interest in reading and writing
- [Reflections on the Life and Ministry of John Gill](https://thelondonlyceum.com/reflections-on-the-life-and-ministry-of-john-gill/) - I was introduced to John Gill (1697–1771) in 2015. Since then, I’ve dedicated my studies to retrieving his life and ministry. From my formative MDiv days to now writing my dissertation on him, I’ve read most of his works and as much of the secondary literature on his life and thought that I have been
- [The Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East: A Classical Dispensationalist Perspective](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-biblical-covenants-and-the-conflict-in-the-middle-east-a-classical-dispensationalist-perspective/) - Editor's Note: This article is part of our Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East series, in which we bring together scholars with differing views on the relationship between the Biblical covenants and examine how their views affect the current conflict in the Middle East. Be sure to check out the book reviews
- [Divine Jealousy as Covenant Concern: Vanhoozer's Theodramatic Impassibility, Actus Purus, and The Middle East Conflict](https://thelondonlyceum.com/divine-jealousy-as-covenant-concern-vanhoozers-theodramatic-impassibility-actus-purus-and-the-middle-east-conflict/) - Editor's Note: This article is part of our Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East series, in which we bring together scholars with differing views on the relationship between the Biblical covenants and examine how their views affect the current conflict in the Middle East. Be sure to check out the book reviews
- [Book Review: Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives Edited by Waters, Reid, and Muether (Part 3)](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-covenant-theology-biblical-theological-and-historical-perspectives-edited-by-waters-reid-and-muether-part-3/) - Editor's Note: This Book Review is part of our Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East series, in which we bring together scholars with differing views on the relationship between the Biblical covenants and examine how their views affect the current conflict in the Middle East. This review is the third installment in
- [Book Review: Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives Edited by Waters, Reid, and Muether (Part 2)](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-covenant-theology-biblical-theological-and-historical-perspectives-edited-by-waters-reid-and-muether-part-2/) - Editor's Note: This Book Review is part of our Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East series, in which we bring together scholars with differing views on the relationship between the Biblical covenants and examine how their views affect the current conflict in the Middle East. This review is the second installment in
- [Book Review: Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives Edited by Waters, Reid, and Muether (Part 1)](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-covenant-theology-biblical-theological-and-historical-perspectives-edited-by-waters-reid-and-muether-part-1/) - Editor's Note: This Book Review is part of our Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East series, in which we bring together scholars with differing views on the relationship between the Biblical covenants and examine how their views affect the current conflict in the Middle East. This is the first installment in
- [Vice, Virtue, and Platforms](https://thelondonlyceum.com/vice-virtue-and-platforms/) - On September 29th, Mark Driscoll tweeted: “God has bypassed the church pulpit and given his gospel to influencers, politicians, and podcasters, and it’s because most pastors have become useless motivational speakers.” That tweet alone might give us justifiable reason to launch Twitter into the sun. However, though the irony is especially thick coming from a
- [The Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East: A Progressive Covenantalist Perspective](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-biblical-covenants-and-the-conflict-in-the-middle-east-a-progressive-covenantalist-perspective/) - Editor's Note: This article is part of our Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East series, in which we bring together scholars with differing views on the relationship between the Biblical covenants and examine how their views affect the current conflict in the Middle East. Be sure to check out the book reviews
- [Book Review: The Case For Progressive Dispensationalism by Robert Saucy](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-the-case-for-progressive-dispensationalism-by-robert-saucy/) - Editor's Note: This Book Review is part of our Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East series, in which we bring together scholars with differing views on the relationship between the Biblical covenants and examine how their views affect the current conflict in the Middle East. Be sure to check out the next
- [Book Review: A Short Treatise on Political Power by John Ponet](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-a-short-treatise-on-political-power-by-john-ponet/) - What has an English bishop to do with the American War for Independence? According to John Adams, much in every way. Although largely neglected now, John Ponet (1516-1556) was a widely respected bishop in the Reformation-era English Church. Adams claimed that Ponet’s treatise “contains all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterwards dilated on
- [The Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East: A Progressive Dispensationalist Perspective](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-biblical-covenants-and-the-conflict-in-the-middle-east-a-progressive-dispensationalist-perspective/) - Editor's Note: This article is part of our Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East series, in which we bring together scholars with differing views on the relationship between the Biblical covenants and examine how their views affect the current conflict in the Middle East. Be sure to check out the book reviews
- [Book Review: Dispensationalism Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Restatement. By Kevin Bauder and Bruce Compton](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-dispensationalism-revisited-a-twenty-first-century-restatement-by-kevin-bauder-and-bruce-compton/) - Editor's Note: This Book Review is part of our Biblical Covenants and the Conflict in the Middle East series, in which we bring together scholars with differing views on the relationship between the Biblical covenants and examine how their views affect the current conflict in the Middle East. Be sure to check out the next
- [Q&A for Prospective PhD's: Advice for Moms Aspiring to Pursue Theological Education](https://thelondonlyceum.com/qa-for-perspective-phds-advice-for-moms-aspiring-to-pursue-theological-education/) - Editor's Note: This is the last article in our Prospective PhD series, and the LL team thought it would be great for a current PhD student to share her experiences of pursuing a PhD as both a wife and a mother, and give a different perspective and advice for mothers who desire to pursue theological
- [Book Review: Continuity to Discontinuity: A Survey of Dispensational and Covenantal Theologies by Benjamin L. Merkle](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-continuity-to-discontinuity-a-survey-of-dispensational-and-covenantal-theologies-by-benjamin-l-merkle/) - Benjamin L. Merkle serves at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary as the M. O. Owens Jr. Chair of New Testament Studies, research professor of New Testament and Greek, and the Associate Dean for Biblical Studies. He is the author of other books such as Going Deeper with New Testament Greek (2016), Exegetical Gems from Biblical Greek(2019),
- [Q&A for Prospective PhD's with Dr. Chuck Lawless](https://thelondonlyceum.com/qa-for-perspective-phds-with-dr-chuck-lawless/) - Editor's Note: For the next few weeks, the Ledger will feature articles from current professors in academia offering advice to prospective PhD students considering doctoral work. Each article will be followed by a critical book review on one of the books that the professor recommends that every PhD student should read. The LL team hopes
- [Review: Evangelism and The Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer](https://thelondonlyceum.com/review-evangelism-and-the-sovereignty-of-god-by-j-i-packer/) - Editor's Note: This book review correlates with the book recommended by Dr. Chuck Lawless in our Q&A for Prospective PhDs Series. If you have not read Dr. Lawless's article, you can find it here. James I. Packer was a renowned British theologian and writer, active in the latter half of the 20th century. Perhaps his
- [Review: Warranted Christian Belief](https://thelondonlyceum.com/review-warranted-christian-belief/) - Editor's Note: This book review correlates with the book recommended by Dr. Tawa Anderson in our Q&A for Prospective PhDs Series. If you have not read Dr. Anderson's article, you can find it here. In Warranted Christian Belief, Alvin Plantinga argues that Christian belief in the triune God has warrant through the awakening and regeneration
- [“One of the Trinity Suffered”: Classical Theist and Neo-Chalcedonian Questions for Mullins’s God and Emotion](https://thelondonlyceum.com/one-of-the-trinity-suffered-classical-theist-and-neo-chalcedonian-questions-for-mullinss-god-and-emotion/) - Ryan Mullins’s God and Emotion offers a high-level survey of the ongoing debates over divine impassibility and emotion. An installment in the Cambridge Elements: Philosophy of Religion series, the book – “pamphlet” might better convey its slimness – runs to a mere 69 pages, but Mullins nonetheless manages to cover an impressive range of material,
- [Book Review: The Making of Biblical Womanhood](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-the-making-of-biblical-womanhood/) - Barr, Beth Allison. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2021. 256pp. Softcover. ISBN: 9781587434709. $19.99. 1. Introducing The Making of Biblical Womanhood Books on topics related to gender and sexuality continue to provoke lively discussion, debate, and best-selling books among evangelicals today. Beth Allison
- [Book Review: The Failure of Natural Theology](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-the-failure-of-natural-theology/) - Johnson, Jeffrey D. The Failure of Natural Theology: A Critical Appraisal of the Philosophical Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Conway, AR: Free Grace Press Academic, 2021. 264pp. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781952599378. $40.00. 1. Introducing Johnson and His Project Jeffrey D. Johnson’s latest release from his publishing arm is The Failure of Natural Theology. The book, as the
- [Q&A for Prospective PhD's with Dr. Tawa Anderson](https://thelondonlyceum.com/qa-for-prospective-phds-with-dr-tawa-anderson/) - Editor's Note: For the next few weeks, the Ledger will feature articles from current professors in academia offering advice to prospective PhD students considering doctoral work. Each article will be followed by a critical book review on one of the books that the professor recommends that every PhD student should read. The LL team hopes
- [Review: Biblical Theology in the Life of the Early Church](https://thelondonlyceum.com/review-biblical-theology-in-the-life-of-the-early-church/) - The last decade or two has been replete with interest in the theology, exegesis, and reading strategies of the earliest Christians. Beyond the sheer increased scholarly interest in patristic exegesis and early Christian interpretation of Scripture, there has also been an uptick of interest among students, pastors, and lay leaders in studying premodern methods and
- [Q&A for Prospective PhD's with Bill Henard](https://thelondonlyceum.com/qa-for-prospective-phds-with-bill-henard/) - Editor's Note: For the next few weeks, the Ledger will feature articles from current professors in academia offering advice to prospective PhD students considering doctoral work. Each article will be followed by a critical book review on one of the books that the professor recommends that every PhD student should read. The LL team hopes
- [Book Review: A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons by John Broadus](https://thelondonlyceum.com/review-a-treatise-on-the-preparation-and-delivery-of-sermons-by-john-broadus/) - Editor's Note: This book review correlates with the book recommended by Dr. Bill Henard in our Q&A for Prospective PhDs Series. If you have not read Dr. Henard's article, you can find it here. The Baptist Preaching Classic “Just read Broadus.” This is my advice to all preachers and teachers of preachers. It seems odd to recommend
- [Q&A for Prospective PhD's with Ryan Tafilowski](https://thelondonlyceum.com/qa-advice-for-aspiring-phds/) - Editor's Note: For the next few weeks, the Ledger will feature articles from current professors in academia offering advice to prospective PhD students considering doctoral work. Each article will be followed by a critical book review on one of the books that the professor recommends that every PhD student should read. The LL team hopes
- [The Good Samaritan](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-good-samaritan/) - “The Lord commending to the Holy Spirit His own man, who had fallen among thieves, whom He Himself compassionated, and bound up his wounds, giving two royal denaria; so that we, receiving by the Spirit the image and superscription of the Father and the Son, might cause the denarium entrusted to us to be fruitful,
- [Never Judge a Book By It's Cover: Reflections on the Shame Machine](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-shame-machine/) - We’re told never to judge a book by its cover. And yet, I do it often, and did so again with this book after I picked it half-hazard from a book sale. The attractive book jacket of The Shame Machine (2022) summarizes its pitch succinctly: “Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: when we
- [Can a Christian Write an Honest Book Review?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/can-a-christian-write-an-honest-book-review/) - Over the last few days there has been an online hullabaloo over Andrew Rillera’s book, Lamb of the Free. Former pastor, and now teacher/author, John Mark Comer has now read it and gave it his seal of approval at having delivered a death blow to penal substitution, which cause an uproar. When a pastor with
- [Exegetical and Theological Preaching](https://thelondonlyceum.com/exegetical-and-theological-preaching-by-joshua-sharp/) - Much of modern evangelical preaching in North America these days is like the Sabine Lake in Southeast Texas: deceptively shallow. I still remember a former congregant taking me out in his boat, stopping in the middle of the lake, and telling me that if I jumped overboard, my head might still be sticking up out
- [New Appointments](https://thelondonlyceum.com/new-appointments/) - The London Lyceum is pleased to announce the hiring of five new staff members! Our team is made up of talented individuals with diverse backgrounds in the church and academy. They graciously give of their time and effort to help us promote serious thinking for a serious church. We are thankful to have each of
- [AI and The Metaphysics of Intelligence](https://thelondonlyceum.com/ai-and-the-metaphysics-of-intelligence/) - Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. The genie is out of the bottle, and there’s no putting it back. A flurry of controversies surround it, from plagiarism and creative integrity to job security and the stability of higher education. Debates rage over whether AI is robbing college students of thinking and writing skills, graphic designers of
- [Lessons on the Kingdom of God from the Eighteenth-Century Baptists](https://thelondonlyceum.com/lessons-on-the-kingdom-of-god-from-the-eighteenth-century-baptists/) - The nature of the kingdom of Christ is of paramount importance for Christians. It was the major theme of our Lord’s incarnate ministry, and likewise formed the heart of the apostolic message deposited in the New Testament. Yet there are some today who wish to interpret the kingdom of God as a means to dress
- [“Pre-eminently a Baptist Achievement”: George Truett’s Case for Religious Liberty in the Shadow of Baptists and World War I](https://thelondonlyceum.com/pre-eminently-a-baptist-achievement-george-truetts-case-for-religious-liberty-in-the-shadow-of-baptists-and-world-war-i/) - Not “Since Paul before Nero,” is the descriptive phrase J. B. Gambrell (1841–1921) used for the famous address George W. Truett (1867–1944) delivered on “Baptists and Religious Liberty.”It took place on May 16, 1920 with approximately ten to fifteen thousand individuals gathered on the east steps of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The
- [Review: What It Means To Be Protestant](https://thelondonlyceum.com/review-what-it-means-to-be-protestant/) - Introduction Conversations between Protestant and non-Protestant traditions often degenerate into little more than a clash of caricatures and a rehashing of underdeveloped arguments. Gavin Ortlund’s What It means to Be Protestant carefully avoids both pitfalls. Ortlund’s charitableness and willingness to seriously consider the other side’s arguments evidence that he has indeed learned to see Protestantism
- [Dead Ends or New Beginnings? Engaging Jonathan Edwards Today](https://thelondonlyceum.com/dead-ends-or-new-beginnings-engaging-jonathan-edwards-today/) - Resolved: When I think of any theological question to be resolved, I will immediately do whatever I can to solve it, … if circumstances don’t hinder. —Jonathan Edwards, Resolutions, No. 11 In a recent article, Layne Hancock and S. Mark Hamilton have argued that much of the energy that has been put into research
- [Retrieval, Philosophy, and the Relations Between the Theological Disciplines](https://thelondonlyceum.com/retrieval-philosophy-and-the-relations-between-the-theological-disciplines/) - After posting some brief thoughts on X regarding the relations between historical theology, systematic theology, and philosophy, I have been asked to say a few words about the relations between the theological disciplines. While I appreciate the recent trend that emphasizes theological retrieval, I have noticed an underemphasis in philosophical theology (described below) that needs
- [Love All the Way Down: An Edwardsean Meditation on Atonement](https://thelondonlyceum.com/love-all-the-way-down-an-edwardsean-meditation-on-atonement/) - This Good Friday pastors around the world will stand up before their congregations and declare the glorious truth: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16, CSB) They will declare this truth so that their flock may stand in awe
- [On the Inferiority of "Revisionary Metaphysics": A Review Essay](https://thelondonlyceum.com/on-the-inferiority-of-revisionary-metaphysics-a-review-essay/) - Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.2 on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available here. More information about the Hanover Review is found here. 1. Introduction Peter Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute and serves as Teacher
- [2024 in Review](https://thelondonlyceum.com/2024-in-review/) - 2024 has nearly come to a close and its hard to not marvel at the providence of God for us at The London Lyceum. We celebrated our five year anniversary in August (listen here for a roundtable discussion reflecting on it). We exhibited at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in San Diego.
- [A Case for Biblical Counseling](https://thelondonlyceum.com/a-case-for-biblical-counseling/) - “The gospel is not enough to help someone with sexual addiction.” I could not believe those words came out of the mouth of a Christian counselor.
- [Retrieving Temptation](https://thelondonlyceum.com/retrieving-temptation/) - “You can’t help a bird flying over your head, but you can keep it from building a nest in your hair.” - Martin Luther
- [On Zombies, Heath Lambert, and Gatekeeping in the Biblical Counseling Movement](https://thelondonlyceum.com/on-zombies-heath-lambert-and-gatekeeping-in-the-biblical-counseling-movement/) - Halloween arrived early this year in the biblical counseling world. In May 2024, Heath Lambert published a video essay entitled “Priests in the Garden, Zombies in the Wilderness, and Prophets on the Wall: The Current State of the Contemporary Biblical Counseling Movement.” Like many people, Lambert sees the biblical counseling movement in a serious state
- [Book Review: The Mission of God](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-the-mission-of-god/) - Boot, Joseph. The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society. London: Wilberforce Publications, 2016. Second edition. 673 pp. Softcover. ISBN 9780957572560. $22.77. Joe Boot earned his doctorate from Whitefield Theological Seminary and is the author of numerous books on apologetics and cultural engagement.[1] He is the founder of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary
- [A Change of Field: Wisdom from the Past on If/When It’s Time for a Pastoral Transition](https://thelondonlyceum.com/a-change-of-field-wisdom-from-the-past-on-if-when-its-time-for-a-pastoral-transition/) - Instability in the pastoral office is the common fact and every pastor, sooner or later, meets the question, Shall I change my field?
- [“Advocates of an Educated Ministry”: James P. Boyce’s Recasting of Reformed Orthodoxy into a Southern Baptist Mold](https://thelondonlyceum.com/advocates-of-an-educated-ministry-james-p-boyces-recasting-of-reformed-orthodoxy-into-a-southern-baptist-mold/) - Throughout their history, Baptists in America have been known as “people of the Book” committed to the simple preaching of the Bible.
- [Plundering the Mercenaries: On Knowing What Time It Is](https://thelondonlyceum.com/plundering-the-mercenaries-on-knowing-what-time-it-is/) - There can be no room for deceit. Consider Aristotle, Critical Race Theory, Doug Wilson“Moscow,” and Megan Basham's "Shepherds for Sale."
- [Q&A for Prospective PhD's with Paul Jo](https://thelondonlyceum.com/qa-for-prospective-phds-with-paul-jo/) - The following is a series of short Q&A essays exploring advice for prospective seminary PhD students. This essay features Dr. Paul Jo, Administration Assistant to the Academic Graduate Studies and Adjunct Professor of Christian Theology at Gateway Seminary How did you enter into ministry in the academy/desire to pursue a PhD? When I was saved
- [Announcing New Hires, Pre-Orders, and CFP Prize](https://thelondonlyceum.com/announcing-new-hires-pre-orders-and-cfp-prize/) - The London Lyceum is pleased to announce the hiring of six new staff members, the launch of pre-orders for the highly anticipated Advice to Christian Philosophers: Reflections on the Past and Future of Christian Philosophy, and a $200 cash prize for the best essay submission from a current graduate student or recent post-graduate (within 5
- [Baptists and Confessions: In Defense of Subscription](https://thelondonlyceum.com/baptists-and-confessions-in-defense-of-subscription/) - The following essay is a revised edition from a lecture given at the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary W. O. Carver remarked on the project of the 1925 Baptist Faith and Message that it was an “abomination of creedmaking.” Sentiments like these are not hard to
- [Q&A for Prospective PhD's with David Rathel](https://thelondonlyceum.com/qa-for-prospective-phds-with-david-rathel/) - The following is part of a series of short Q&A essays exploring advice for prospective seminary PhD students. This essay features Dr. David Rathel, Associate Professor of Christian Theology/Director of Academic Graduate Studies at Gateway Seminary How did you enter into ministry in the academy/desire to pursue a PhD? The desire to pursue a PhD
- [Q&A for Prospective PhD's with Chris Chun](https://thelondonlyceum.com/qa-for-prospective-phds-with-chris-chun/) - The following is part of a series of short Q&A essays exploring advice for prospective seminary PhD students. This essay features Dr. Chris Chun, Director of Jonathan Edwards Center and Professor of Church History at Gateway Seminary How did you enter into ministry in the academy/desire to pursue a PhD? When I started my M-Div,
- [5 Books on Free Will](https://thelondonlyceum.com/5-books-on-free-will/) - The philosophical literature on free will and moral responsibility was revolutionized in the 1960s and has grown enormously since. There are many great resources connecting the philosophical literature with issues in Christian theology (e.g., recent monographs by Guillaume Bignon and Michael Preciado), but here are five books I would recommend for anyone who wants to
- [American Slavery: A Tale of Two Evangelicalisms](https://thelondonlyceum.com/american-slavery-a-tale-of-two-evangelicalisms/) - Compiled, Edited, and Introduced by Jordan A. Senécal Introduction In the antebellum years, a letter was written by the pen of Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné (1794–1872)—Merle, for short—a Genevan-born descendant of the Huguenots who served as a Protestant minister and professor in that city, as well as a key leader in the evangelical revival which swept
- [Book Review: Addiction & Virtue](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-addiction-virtue/) - Dunnington, Kent. Addiction & Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011. 199 pages. Paperback. 9780830839018. $35.00. Summary of Key Themes and Significant Points The major theme of Addiction and Virtue is Dunnington’s concern that contemporary thinking and models about addiction are stunted and unable to account for the
- [The Underlying Problem: A Brief Analysis of Meredith G. Kline’s Response to Theonomy](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-underlying-problem-a-brief-analysis-of-meredith-g-klines-response-to-theonomy/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 1 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and validity of theonomy. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. [1]It has rightly been said that the issue of the law’s continuity “hits a sensitive nerve with Reformed
- [Historic Protestant Political Theology: Theonomy and Theological Tinkering](https://thelondonlyceum.com/historic-protestant-political-theology-theonomy-and-theological-tinkering/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 2 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and validity of theonomy. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. In recent years Protestant intellectual resourcement has led to a reclamation of historic Protestant political theology. Clergy, historians, and
- [Theonomy: A Theological Critique](https://thelondonlyceum.com/theonomy-a-theological-critique/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 3 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and validity of theonomy. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Theonomy, as I engage it here, refers to the conviction that the so-called judicial (or civil) laws of Moses
- [Classical Reformed Theonomy](https://thelondonlyceum.com/classical-reformed-theonomy/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 4 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and validity of theonomy. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. I. Introduction Theonomy has been the target of criticism for decades, and here we go again. From my experience,
- [Are There Still Theonomists?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/are-there-still-theonomists/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 5 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and validity of theonomy. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. A few years ago, I wrote to a friend teaching at a Christian college to say that I’d be
- [That One Time Theonomists Didn’t Run Puritan New England](https://thelondonlyceum.com/that-one-time-theonomists-didnt-run-puritan-new-england/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 6 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and validity of theonomy. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Introduction Theonomists repeatedly attempt to appropriate Puritanism, the New England variety in particular. It offers them both an historical
- [New Covenant Fulfillment and the End of the Law: A Critique of Theonomic Hermeneutics and Political Ethics](https://thelondonlyceum.com/new-covenant-fulfillment-and-the-end-of-the-law-a-critique-of-theonomic-hermeneutics-and-political-ethics/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 7 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and validity of theonomy. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. The task of interpreting the Bible is more difficult than it might first appear, especially if application to modern life is also attempted (which
- [Six Resources for Pastoral Counseling](https://thelondonlyceum.com/six-resources-for-pastoral-counseling/) - Two elements must be considered when recommending resources. First, the one recommending the resources must know the ones to whom he is recommending them. Second, recommendations must have clarity of purposefulness—what are those resources good for? With that in mind, the list I have curated below envisions an audience of Christian pastors who are engaged
- [No More Nursing Fathers: A Baptist Theological Rationale for Religious Liberty](https://thelondonlyceum.com/no-more-nursing-fathers-a-baptist-theological-rationale-for-religious-liberty/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 1 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering Baptists, Religious Liberty, and the State. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. [1]On May 16, 1920 George W. Truett in a sermon preached on the steps of the United States Capitol
- [A Conscience Rightly Informed: Establishment, Disestablishment, and the Debate over The Human Conscience](https://thelondonlyceum.com/a-conscience-rightly-informed-establishment-disestablishment-and-the-debate-over-the-human-conscience/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 2 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering Baptists, Religious Liberty, and the State. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Confined to the wretched conditions of Newgate Prison, John Murton penned a small tract called, A Most Humble Supplication
- [Is There a Baptist Contribution to Political Theology?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/is-there-a-baptist-contribution-to-political-theology/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 3 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering Baptists, Religious Liberty, and the State. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. The question that guides this essay could be answered from a variety of perspectives. We could survey Baptist thought
- [Regenerate Church Membership and the Incoherence of the “Magisterial Baptist” Position](https://thelondonlyceum.com/regenerate-church-membership-and-the-incoherence-of-the-magisterial-baptist-position/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 3 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering Baptist identity. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Introduction: A Different Kind of Wall of Separation Amongst his many other achievements, Thomas Jefferson is known today for his “wall of separation”
- [Thoughts on Genesis 9:6 and the First Table of the Law](https://thelondonlyceum.com/thoughts-on-genesis-96-and-the-first-table-of-the-law/) - Editor's Note: As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. The Davenant Institute and Colorado Christian University (CCU) co-hosted a debate between Drs. Brad Littlejohn and Jonathan Leeman entitled, “Religious Liberty and the Common Good” on November 17, 2022.[1] This debate is part of a larger discussion
- [Book Review: Natural Theology](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-natural-theology/) - Haines, David. Natural Theology; A Biblical and Historical Defense. Landrum, SC: Davenant Press, 2021. 188 pages. ISBN 1-949716-09-0. $14 (paper) David Haines, a philosophy professor at Bethlehem College and Seminary, has written a book on a key, controversial topic in contemporary Christian theology: the standing of natural theology. The cover of the book is a
- [Book Review: Gisbertus Voetius on God, Freedom, and Contingency](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-gisbertus-voetius-on-god-freedom-and-contingency/) - Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, Freedom, and Contingency: An Early Modern Reformed Voice. Andreas Beck. Brill. 616 pages. $227. Gisbertus Voetius is undoubtedly one of the principal figures of seventeenth-century Post-Reformation Reformed Orthodoxy. Unfortunately, he is relatively unknown in modern English-speaking Reformed circles. The Dutch theologian was a minister, a professor, and a polemicist, critically
- [Book Review: Justice and Charity](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-justice-and-charity/) - Krom, Michael P. Justice and Charity: An Introduction to Aquinas’s Moral, Economic, and Political Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020. 235 pages. Softcover. 978-1-5409-6224-9. $32.00. 1. Introduction There has been a revival of interest in the thought of Thomas Aquinas in conservative evangelical circles. The most recent annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society
- [The (Past, Present, and Future) Law of Religious Liberty](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-past-present-and-future-law-of-religious-liberty/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 4 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering Baptists, Religious Liberty, and the State. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. The legal history of religious liberty in the United States is complicated. The pilgrims came to America in the
- [Making Psychology Theological Again: A Review of The Logic of the Body](https://thelondonlyceum.com/making-psychology-great-again-a-review-of-the-logic-of-the-body/) - LaPine, Matthew A. The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020. 439 pages. Paperback. 978-1683594253. $29.99. Theological retrieval looks back in order to move forward. When adequately undertaken, the task of ressourcement allows the saints of the past to help the church of the present to continue to confess and
- [Book Review: Arminius and the Reformed Tradition](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-arminius-and-the-reformed-tradition/) - Fesko, J. V. Arminius and the Reformed Tradition: Grace and the Doctrine of Salvation. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2022. 192 pages. $25.00.The theology of the early modern theologian Jacob Arminius has been largely neglected in the history of Protestant theology. Defenders and detractors alike stand to benefit from a closer investigation of his theological
- [Ground Rules for Christian Metaphysics](https://thelondonlyceum.com/ground-rules-for-christian-metaphysics/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 1 in our Lyceum Disputation series on metaphysics and the Christian. Stay tuned for further installments which can be found here when available. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Just what is metaphysics is a subject of some debate. Aristotle understood metaphysics
- [Do Christians Need Metaphysics?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/do-christians-need-metaphysics/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 2 in our Lyceum Disputation series on metaphysics and the Christian. Stay tuned for further installments which can be found here when available. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Do Christians need metaphysics? To answer this question, we need to know what metaphysics is. But
- [Is There a Metaphysics of Christianity?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/is-there-a-metaphysics-of-christianity/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 3 in our Lyceum Disputation series on metaphysics and the Christian. Stay tuned for further installments which can be found here when available. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Your average Barnes & Noble patron signs up for Metaphysics 101 at university. She reads
- [The Christian Prince Against the Dad Bod: An Assessment of The Case for Christian Nationalism](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-the-case-for-christian-nationalism-stephen-wolfe/) - I rather tell thee what is to be feared Than what I fear,—for always I am Caesar. –Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II Our times cry out for deep devotion to truth, pure conviction exemplified through sacrifice, clarity over obfuscation, courage in the face of mortal danger, and rightly ordered loves of worthy objects.
- [Metaphysics and Delight](https://thelondonlyceum.com/metaphysics-and-delight/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 4 in our Lyceum Disputation series on metaphysics and the Christian. Stay tuned for further installments which can be found here when available. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Elsewhere I have suggested that the history of philosophy can be divided into three epochs,
- [Against Strict Separationism: The Viability of a (Civilly) Christian State in Baptist Perspective](https://thelondonlyceum.com/against-strict-separationism-viability/) - Introduction Christian nationalism’s abrupt entrance into modern discourse has summoned a generous host of critics, and some in my own Baptist tribe have taken an interest in its relevance. Consequently, many have been actively considering what we can affirm and what we must deny as Baptists regarding the relationship between church and state. My endeavor
- [Announcing Hanover Press](https://thelondonlyceum.com/announcing-hanover-press/) - The London Lyceum is pleased to announce the formation of Hanover Press. Hanover Press is a publishing house committed to producing original Protestant academic theology and classic Baptist literature with the quality of a university press and the ecclesial mindset of an evangelical publisher. As the London Lyceum has grown, so has the demand for
- [On the Use of Metaphysics in Christian Theology](https://thelondonlyceum.com/on-the-use-of-metaphysics-in-christian-theology/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 5 in our Lyceum Disputation series on metaphysics and the Christian. Stay tuned for further installments which can be found here when available. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. I. “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” asked Tertullian. This question, coupled with
- [On Justification, Doug Wilson, and The Moscow Doctrine](https://thelondonlyceum.com/on-justification-doug-wilson-and-the-moscow-doctrine/) - “What do you think about Doug Wilson?” is a question we receive often as pastors, and it’s sometimes hard to know exactly how to answer. He has a remarkable wit that he sometimes uses to defend biblical positions in a hostile society, which accounts for much of his appeal among conservative and Reformed-minded Christians. But
- [Timothy Keller Meets Thomas Aquinas: Common Grace, Human Nature, and The Question of Non-Christian Virtue](https://thelondonlyceum.com/timothy-keller-meets-thomas-aquinas-common-grace-human-nature-and-the-question-of-non-christian-virtue/) - Can non-Christians ever act with virtue? Is it possible, in other words, for them to do the right thing for the right reason? In Christian language, can they, if only on occasion, avoid sin or act in obedience to God’s law imprinted on the heart or conscience (natural law)? Augustine argued that the answer to
- [Book Review: Biblical Counseling and Common Grace](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-biblical-counseling-and-common-grace/) - Heath Lambert, Biblical Counseling and Common Grace (Greensboro: Shepherd Press, 2023), paperback, $17.99.
- [Creeds, Confessions, and Carroll: An Essay in Defense of Baptist “Creedalism”](https://thelondonlyceum.com/creeds-confessions-and-carroll-an-essay-in-defense-of-baptist-creedalism/) - It is common fare to read criticisms of robust creedalism and confessionalism in modern Baptist life. These often arise from those in Southern Baptist circles jealous of distorted 19th and 20th century priorities.
- [The Bishop of Rome Hath No Jurisdiction in This Realm of England: The English Reformation and Foreign Jurisdiction](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-bishop-of-rome-hath-no-jurisdiction-in-this-realm-of-england-the-english-reformation-and-foreign-jurisdiction/) - Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.1 on the Reformation as Renewal Symposium. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available here. Full details about the symposium can be found here. More information about the Hanover Review is found here. Matthew Barrett’s recent book The Reformation as
- [Job as a Type of Christ’s Threefold Office](https://thelondonlyceum.com/job-as-a-type-of-christs-threefold-office/) - It is not novel to see Job as foreshadowing Christ despite the New Testament not making such a connection explicit.
- [The Prophetic Role of the Protestant Reformation](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-prophetic-role-of-the-protestant-reformation/) - Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.1 on the Reformation as Renewal Symposium. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available here. Full details about the symposium can be found here. More information about the Hanover Review is found here. In his commentary on the book of
- [Contextualizing "Renewal:" An Examination of Matthew Barrett's Historical Methodology](https://thelondonlyceum.com/contextualizing-renewal-an-examination-of-matthew-barretts-historical-methodology/) - Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.1 on the Reformation as Renewal Symposium. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available here. Full details about the symposium can be found here. More information about the Hanover Review is found here. 1. Introduction Matthew Barrett’s The Reformation as
- [Prolegomena to Any Future Account of Aquinas's Augustinianism: A Response to Matthew Barrett](https://thelondonlyceum.com/prolegomena-to-any-future-account-of-aquinass-augustinianism-a-response-to-matthew-barrett/) - Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.1 on the Reformation as Renewal Symposium. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available here. Full details about the symposium can be found here. More information about the Hanover Review is found here. 1. Introduction It is more interesting, in
- [“Reformation as Renewal:” Recatholicizing the Reformers by Manipulating their Message?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/reformation-as-renewal-recatholicizing-the-reformers-by-manipulating-their-message/) - Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.1 on the Reformation as Renewal Symposium. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available here. Full details about the symposium can be found here. More information about the Hanover Review is found here. Is Matthew Barrett’s Reformation as Renewal about
- [Book Review: Why Do Protestants Convert?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-why-do-protestants-convert/) - Littlejohn, Brad and Chris Castaldo. Why Do Protestants Convert? Landrum, SC: The Davenant Press, 2023. 100 pages. Softcover. 978-1-949716-20-7. $12.95.
- [On Matthew Barrett's "The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church"](https://thelondonlyceum.com/on-matthew-barretts-the-reformation-as-renewal-retrieving-the-one-holy-catholic-and-apostolic-church/) - Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.1 on the Reformation as Renewal Symposium. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available here. Full details about the symposium can be found here. More information about the Hanover Review is found here. Note to the Reader: In what follows
- [Duns Scotus, Classical Theist: A Vindication](https://thelondonlyceum.com/duns-scotus-classical-theist-a-vindication/) - Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.1 on the Reformation as Renewal Symposium. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available here. Full details about the symposium can be found here. More information about the Hanover Review is found here. 1. Introduction:
- [An Accidental Reformation?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/an-accidental-reformation/) - Note: This is the online version of an essay from the Hanover Review 3.1 on the Reformation as Renewal Symposium. Print copies are available here and full digital copies of the issue are available here. Full details about the symposium can be found here. More information about the Hanover Review is found here. 1. Introduction
- [Book Review: Reforming Criminal Justice](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-reforming-criminal-justice/) - Matthew T. Martens, Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Perspective (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023), Hardcover, $34.99.
- [Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-the-rise-and-fall-of-dispensationalism/) - The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle Over the End Times Shaped a Nation. Daniel G. Hummel. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2023. 400 pages. $29.99
- [The Story of John Smyth: How Congregationalist Polity Led to Believer’s Baptism](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-story-of-john-smyth-how-congregationalist-polity-led-to-believers-baptism/) - Coggins, James R., John Smyth’s Congregation: English Separatism, Mennonite Influence, and the Elect Nation (Waterloo, Ontario: Herald Press, 1991).
- [“Think and Smoke Tobacco”: Eighteenth-Century Christian Perspectives on Tobacco Use](https://thelondonlyceum.com/think-and-smoke-tobacco-eighteenth-century-christian-perspectives-on-tobacco-use/) - This online essay is significantly abridged from a larger essay on this subject published in The Hanover Review: The Journal of The London Lyceum 2.1 (March 2024). Purchase a print version here or digital here. Garrett M. Walden At the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792, thirteen men gathered in the Wallis home
- [Announcing Staff and Publication Updates](https://thelondonlyceum.com/announcing-staff-and-publication-updates/) - The London Lyceum is pleased to announce several important updates, including staff additions and publication updates. Staffing Updates As the London Lyceum continues to grow so does the need for additional personnel. To meet this continued demand the London Lyceum has welcomed Zach Williams as our new Online Content Manager, Matt Gilleskie as Hanover Press
- [Charity as Schoolmaster: A Word for The London Lyceum from Samuel Pearce (1766–1799)](https://thelondonlyceum.com/charity-as-schoolmaster-a-word-for-the-london-lyceum-from-samuel-pearce-1766-1799/) - As I ponder the vision of The London Lyceum, I believe there are old lighthouses within the Baptist heritage, waiting to be relit...
- [Considered Only Flesh and Passions: Evaluating Moral Sentimentalism in Evolutionary Psychology](https://thelondonlyceum.com/considered-only-flesh-and-passions-evaluating-moral-sentimentalism-in-evolutionary-psychology/) - In the aptly titled The Descent of Man (1871), Charles Darwin confronts a vexing question from the perspective of natural selection: why be good?
- [2023 in Review](https://thelondonlyceum.com/2023-in-review/) - 2023 is now in the books and the London Lyceum is both grateful for the last year and thrilled about the future. Looking back, we've accomplished a great deal beyond our standard content production. We launched two new YouTube shows, Kiffin's Keep and Generally Particular. We launched our exclusive podcast option. We hired multiple new
- [By Faith We See in the Dark](https://thelondonlyceum.com/by-faith-we-see-in-the-dark/) - The things I love deeply are also the things that irk me most easily. And most profoundly. This makes sense: when we love, we care. (Likewise, indifference breeds apathy.) For nerds like me, this applies especially to books. Let me first say that I love Luc Ferry’s little gem A Brief History of Thought. It’s
- [TFT and Me: A Story of Thanks to the Theological Mentor I Never Met](https://thelondonlyceum.com/tft-and-me-a-story-of-thanks-to-the-theological-mentor-i-never-met/) - I first came across the writings of Thomas Forsyth Torrance (1913-2007) while taking a PhD seminar at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in the Fall of 2017. Like most second year students in American PhD programs, I was on the hunt for that ever elusive and seemingly impossible scholarly contribution to argue as a thesis for
- [Cultivating a Vibrant Ministry of the Word: Encouragements from William Perkins](https://thelondonlyceum.com/cultivating-a-vibrant-ministry-of-the-word-encouragements-from-william-perkins/) - O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. (Galatians 3:1 ESV) In his commentary on Galatians, William Perkins sought to pastorally apply the Scriptures within a Reformed framework to the moral laxity of his Elizabethan context. In other words, Perkins sought reform amongst
- [Review: The Augustine Way](https://thelondonlyceum.com/review-the-augustine-way/) - Chatraw, Joshua D. and Mark D. Allen. The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church’s Apologetic Witness. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2023. 197 pp. $24.99. “‘What do you call an amateur theologian?’ ‘An Apologist.’ Though that joke might get some laughs around a table of theologians today, Augustine, along with the rest of the
- [Farewell, Comrade Clifford](https://thelondonlyceum.com/farewell-comrade-clifford/) - Bridwell, Norman. Clifford's Family. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2010. 32 pages. $4.99. Christians are sometimes accused of being overly hostile in silly culture wars. Some would argue that we take a more irenic and confident approach, given that Jesus said that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church. However, when Jesus said
- [The London Lyceum's Top Books of 2020](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-london-lyceums-top-books-of-2020/) - Here at the London Lyceum we love to recommend great resources that will get you thinking. To that end we've gathered a brief list of some of the top books read this year by our editorial board and our fellows. We plan to provide this list on an annual basis going forward. As a note:
- [Book Review: The Gospels as Stories](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-the-gospels-as-stories/) - Brown, Jeannine K. The Gospels as Stories: A Narrative Approach to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020. 224 pages. Softcover. ISBN: 9780801049842. $21.99. Preaching or teaching through the Gospels is a difficult task, especially when there is a pressure to be comprehensive of the life of Christ. For instance, Jesus
- [Book Review: Approaching the Atonement](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-approaching-the-atonement-oliver-crisp/) - Crisp, Oliver. Approaching the Atonement: The Reconciling Work of Christ. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020. 208 pages. Paperback. 978-0-8308-5197-3. $22.00. Oliver Crisp (DLitt, University of Aberdeen, PhD University of London), Professor of Analytic Theology at the University of St. Andrews, is well-regarded for his thoughtful analysis, clear writing style, and ability to ask probing
- [6 Books on Gender and Theology](https://thelondonlyceum.com/6-books-on-gender-and-theology/) - Gender is a crucially important topic for theologians to understand and for pastors to offer guidance to their congregants. However, it is such a wide and complex literature that it might be difficult to know where to start. Here are my top suggestions, in no particular order. (Nota bene: These are recommendations on books about
- [Book Review: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-the-rise-and-triumph-of-the-modern-self/) - Trueman, Carl R. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2020. 425 pages. Hardcover. 978–1-4335–5633–3. $34.99. Carl Trueman, Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, has written a book that I am surprised has not yet been written.
- [Constructing Theology within the Bounds of Creeds and Confessions](https://thelondonlyceum.com/constructing-theology-within-the-bounds-of-creeds-and-confessions/) - Mark Jones, in a recent podcast, briefly infers that there is “built-in space” within the confessions (and thus Scriptural authority) for a reasonable response to diversity within theology that does not push one outside of the bounds of Christian orthodoxy.[1] This brief essay will seek to take Jones’ concept and argue that this “built-in space”
- [4 Resources on the Means of Grace](https://thelondonlyceum.com/4-resources-on-the-means-of-grace/) - A theological understanding of the Ordinary Means of Grace is what every Christian generation needs. This is particularly true in our day when so many churches have abandoned the Ordinary Means (Preaching, Sacraments, and Prayer) for secondary means, church growth strategies, or programs. A clear understanding that there are particular means, or mechanisms that the
- [Virtues and Vices in Christian Polemic: A Response to Craig Carter](https://thelondonlyceum.com/virtues-and-vices-in-christian-polemic-a-response-to-craig-carter/) - Craig Carter and John Peckham have recently written books on theology. Carter has written an enthusiastic effort at the retrieval and defense of something he calls “classical theism,” and Peckham has written what he calls a “moderate classical theistic” account of the doctrine of God. Now Carter has written a review of Peckham’s book. We
- [Non-Creedal Creeds: A Pseudo-Baptist Position](https://thelondonlyceum.com/non-creedal-creeds-a-pseudo-baptist-position/) - Growing up and serving in Landmark Baptist churches in the Deep South, a document entitled “Church Covenant” hung on a wall somewhere in the auditorium. If someone had suggested removing it from its place of prominence, it would have been equal to telling grandma she had to relocate from her “spot” on her pew. Yet,
- [Book Review: Greek for Life](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-greek-for-life/) - Merkle, Benjamin L. and Robert L. Plummer. Greek for Life: Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving New Testament Greek. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2017. 176 pages. Softcover. ISBN: 9780801093203. $21.99 When I started seminary, I was eager to jump directly into the study of the Greek language. I anticipated that it would give me
- [“Libertarian Free Will”: How to Avoid Some Confusions](https://thelondonlyceum.com/libertarian-free-will-how-to-avoid-some-confusions/) - I am not a libertarian about free will.[1] I think there are good objections to libertarianism. But many criticisms of libertarianism rest on confusions, and it is worth calling attention to some of these confusions in order that those of us who reject libertarianism can be sure to avoid criticizing a straw version of the
- [Ten Books for Thinking About Human Persons](https://thelondonlyceum.com/ten-books-for-thinking-about-human-persons/) - A few months ago, Jordan Steffaniak reached out to me asking if I’d provide a short write-up covering three to five books about the doctrine of the resurrection and/or theological anthropology that I think are important. “Sure!” I said, thinking this would be an easy task. Now, having sat down to write it, I’ve found
- [Book Review: The New Reformation: Finding Hope in the Fight for Ethnic Unity](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-the-new-reformation-finding-hope-in-the-fight-for-ethnic-unity/) - The New Reformation: Finding Hope in the Fight for Ethnic Unity. By Shai Linne. Chicago: Moody Publishers. 2021. 222 pp. $12.79 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8024-2320-7. The turmoil of the last two years has put on full display the labored gasps of a dying world. Our only ultimate hope, as ever, lies in the promise of the
- [Ten Books for Thinking about Early Modern English Baptists](https://thelondonlyceum.com/ten-books-for-thinking-about-early-modern-english-baptists/) - Much of the global Baptist movement can trace its roots back to mid-seventeenth-century England. In particular, Reformed or Calvinistic Baptists began here, their earliest churches emerging during the late 1630s and early 1640s as an outgrowth of the antecedent trans-Atlantic Congregational movement. Early Calvinistic Baptists both reflected a wider Puritan religious culture and worked to
- [Six Books for Thinking About the Eucharist](https://thelondonlyceum.com/six-books-for-thinking-about-the-eucharist/) - The Lord’s Supper is known by many names: the Eucharist, Holy Communion, the Mass, the Sacrament of the Altar, etc. Regardless of what one calls it, this rite has been and continues to be for many the central act of Christian worship. It has also been one of the most controversial topics in the history
- [Book Review: Divine Attributes: Knowing the Covenantal God of Scripture](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-divine-attributes-knowing-the-covenantal-god-of-scripture/) - Divine Attributes: Knowing the Covenantal God of Scripture. By John C. Peckham. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021. 336 pages. Paperback. $29.99. John C. Peckham is professor of theology and Christian philosophy at Andrews University, from whence he also earned his Ph.D. He has published a number of books, most of which have focused on the
- [Book Review: Kiffen, Knollys, and Keach](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-kiffen-knollys-and-keach/) - Haykin, Michael A.G. Kiffen, Knollys, and Keach: Rediscovering our English Baptist Heritage. Peterborough, Canada: H&E Publishing, 2019. 194 pp. Softcover. ISBN: 9781989174333. $24.99. Michael A. G. Haykin is Professor of Church History & Biblical Spirituality and the Director for The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has written
- [Saints of all names, he cordially embraced: The Baptist Catholicity of Andrew Gifford Jr.](https://thelondonlyceum.com/saints-of-all-names-he-cordially-embraced-the-baptist-catholicity-of-andrew-gifford-jr/) - By the end of the eighteenth century, Particular Baptists in England were experiencing spiritual renewal after a period of decline. The reasons for this decline are too complex to be attributed to any one thing, but high Calvinism, mistrust toward other denominations, and a spirit of anti-intellectualism each played a part.[1] Andrew Gifford Jr., the
- [Disputatio: A Response to Owen Strachan](https://thelondonlyceum.com/disputatio-a-response-to-owen-strachan/) - This essay endeavors to bring much needed light to a conversation that has a surplus of heat. I have attempted, for the most part, to stay away from public disputation with Dr. Owen Strachan for a number of reasons. One reason is simply that the prospect of it saddens me. Strachan was one of my
- [Evangelical History Overturned](https://thelondonlyceum.com/evangelical-history-overturned/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 3 in our Lyceum Disputation series from various historians considering competing visions of historical methodology. See Part 1 here and part 2 here. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Imagine writing the history of a religious group
- [A Christian Case for Activist History](https://thelondonlyceum.com/a-christian-case-for-activist-history/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 2 in our Lyceum Disputation series from various historians considering competing visions of historical methodology. See Part 1 here and stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Alex DiPrima is not alone in his dislike of “activist historiography.”
- [The Allure of Celebrity Preaching: Helpful Cautions from a Lay Puritan](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-allure-of-celebrity-preaching-helpful-cautions-from-a-lay-puritan/) - Modern technology has proven a boon to the proliferation of ‘celebrity’ preachers. The expansion of social media has made online pulpits accessible across the globe at a moment’s notice. A gifted expositor in southern California can gain an audience in Brazil as readily as he can in central Mississippi. To be sure, this development has enabled
- [John Brine: A Baptist’s Letter for Our Easter Theology](https://thelondonlyceum.com/john-brine-a-baptists-letter-for-our-easter-theology/) - Baptists don’t always know where to look within our own tradition when big theological questions arise. In my study, when I turn to trustworthy historical sources, I might frequently appeal to Puritan divines like Richard Sibbes or John Flavel, Independents like John Owen or Thomas Goodwin, or Reformed writers like John Calvin, Francis Turretin, Petrus
- [When Activists Do History](https://thelondonlyceum.com/when-activists-do-history/) - Editor's Note: This is part 1 in our Lyceum Disputation series from various historians considering competing visions of historical methodology. See Part 2 here and stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. There exists today a growing trend among historians that
- [Book Review: Biblical Philosophy](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-biblical-philosophy/) - Johnson, Dru. Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 343 pp. Softcover. ISBN 9781108932691. $34.99 When you think about the subject matter that makes up the Christian Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, what kinds of categories come to mind? Terms like revelation, prophecy, narrative,
- [Book Review: Covenant](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-covenant/) - Block, Daniel I. Covenant: The Framework of God’s Plan of Redemption. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2021. 704 pages. Hardcover. 9780801097881. $54.99. Introduction Daniel Block is well-known as being one of the premier evangelical scholars of our day. He is a retired Old Testament (OT) professor of Wheaton College, yet continues his scholarly work. His
- [The Best of the London Lyceum 2021](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-best-of-2021/) - We at the London Lyceum had an amazing year thanks to you--our readers and listeners. We want to highlight our top posts and podcasts from the year to both encourage those who helped make them possible and to give you some tips on what to read or listen to if you missed them! If you
- [The London Lyceum's Top Books of 2021](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-london-lyceums-top-books-of-2021/) - Welcome back to our annual top books of the year post. Each year our board and fellows join together to submit their favorite book from the most recent year. Each book has a short synopsis on why it's so great. You can find last year's recommendations here. Happy reading! As a note: These may or
- [The Founders Recommendations: Part II - Jordan](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-founders-recommendations-part-ii-jordan/) - Regular followers of the London Lyceum love reading. And for good reason! But oftentimes even those with seminary educations wonder where to start and where to go next when it comes to analytic, Baptist, or confessional theology. So, I've worked to create a list of recommended resources that can serve as a gateway to further
- [The Founders Recommendations: Part I - Brandon](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-founders-recommendations-part-i-brandon/) - As a pastor, I want to be as prepared as I can to feed and lead the saints under my care. The following books have been helpful to my own personal faith, but they have also assisted me in the task of building up the faith of others in our church. Most of the books
- [Book Review: Men and Women in the Church](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-men-and-women-in-the-church/) - DeYoung, Kevin. Men and Women in the Church. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2021. 176pp. Softcover. ISBN: 1433566532. $19.99. 1. Introducing DeYoung Kevin DeYoung is the Senior Pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC, and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte, NC). He also serves as a council member of The Gospel
- [Incarnation Anyway and the Local Church](https://thelondonlyceum.com/incarnation-anyway-and-the-local-church/) - I am not a self-proclaimed pastor-theologian, and yet I accept the label when others grant it to me. I believe it is important for all pastors to be theologians to some degree since the study of the Bible necessitates theological reflection. Not everyone in the pastorate will pursue theology to the point of a terminal
- [Companions in This Great Mediatorial Office](https://thelondonlyceum.com/companions-in-this-great-mediatorial-office-similarities-and-differences-between-wcf-and-2lcf-on-christs-mediatorship/) - Similarities and Differences Between WCF and 2LCF on Christ’s Mediatorship John Calvin, in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, once stated that Christ our Mediator “unites (his) offices of king and pastor toward believers who voluntarily submit to him.”[1] In other words, Christ makes all of us into a priesthood of believers by virtue of
- [Continuity and Discontinuity: Covenant Theology in Light of Pentecost](https://thelondonlyceum.com/continuity-and-discontinuity-covenant-theology-in-light-of-pentecost/) - The Problem When it comes to covenant theology, the great debate tends to be over continuity and discontinuity. Because covenant theology is about how God relates to (literally is in relationship with) human beings the debate is worth our attention. Those who stress continuity do so out of concern for the unity of God, the
- [Natural Theology and the Uneasy Conscience of Modern “Calvinism”](https://thelondonlyceum.com/natural-theology-and-the-uneasy-conscience-of-modern-calvinism/) - It’s been over seventy years since Carl Henry wrote of the uneasy conscience of modern fundamentalism. Today, we could very well write of the uneasy conscience of modern “Calvinism” (or more appropriately, the pop-Calvinism of the “Young, Restless, and Reformed” movement)—especially as it relates to so-called natural theology. There is a great anxiety that theological
- [How (Not) to Affirm Penal Substitutionary Atonement: A Response to the 2017 SBC Resolution](https://thelondonlyceum.com/how-not-to-affirm-penal-substitutionary-atonement-a-response-to-the-2017-sbc-resolution/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 1 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the necessity of Penal Substitutionary Atonement as described in this 2017 SBC resolution. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. What is modern life if not an endless argument over acronyms? CRT,
- [Centering the Atonement: Balancing the Substitutionary Work of Christ](https://thelondonlyceum.com/centering-the-atonement-balancing-the-substitutionary-work-of-christ/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 2 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the necessity of Penal Substitutionary Atonement as described in this 2017 SBC resolution. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. I have been asked to offer a response to the 2017 Southern Baptist
- [Why Denying Penal Substitution Need Not Impugn God’s Perfect Justice](https://thelondonlyceum.com/why-denying-penal-substitution-need-not-impugn-gods-perfect-justice/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 3 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the necessity of Penal Substitutionary Atonement as described in this 2017 SBC resolution. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. In the summer of 2017, a Southern Baptist Convention resolution was passed concerning
- [An Analysis of the 2017 SBC Resolution on Penal Substitutionary Atonement](https://thelondonlyceum.com/an-analysis-of-the-2017-sbc-resolution-on-penal-substitutionary-atonement/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 4 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the necessity of Penal Substitutionary Atonement as described in this 2017 SBC resolution. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. The 2017 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention approved a non-binding resolution
- [Book Review: John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-john-leland-a-jeffersonian-baptist-in-early-america/) - Smith, Eric C. John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 268 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 9780197606674. Eric Smith earned his PhD from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. He serves as the Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, TN and as an Associate Professor of
- [On Classical Christian Platonism: A Philosopher’s Reply to Carter](https://thelondonlyceum.com/on-classical-christian-platonism-a-philosophers-reply-to-carter/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 1 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and potential necessity of contemporary "Christian Platonism" as exemplified here and here. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. As a Christian philosopher, I’m happy to count myself as a
- [Christian Platonism: Some Comments on Its Past and the Need for Its Future](https://thelondonlyceum.com/christian-platonism-some-comments-on-its-past-and-the-need-for-its-future/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 2 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and potential necessity of contemporary “Christian Platonism” as exemplified here and here. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. The best way to summarize my view on Christian Platonism is perhaps to say
- [Craig Carter’s Christian Platonism](https://thelondonlyceum.com/craig-carters-christian-platonism/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 3 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and potential necessity of contemporary “Christian Platonism” as exemplified here and here. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. A couple of years ago, I went on the London Lyceum podcast to discuss
- [Is Arius a Christian Platonist?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/is-arius-a-christian-platonist/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 4 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and potential necessity of contemporary “Christian Platonism." Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Christian Platonism has become a near household term among pastors and seminarians. It is a contentious
- [Plato Is Not The Point: A Critical Defense of Craig Carter’s Proposal](https://thelondonlyceum.com/plato-is-not-the-point-a-critical-defense-of-craig-carters-proposal/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 5 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and potential necessity of contemporary “Christian Platonism.” Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Craig Carter’s Christian Platonism project is worth defending. While I hope to offer some critiques about
- [An Early Medieval Pastor-Poet’s Thoughts on the Cross](https://thelondonlyceum.com/an-early-medieval-pastor-poets-thoughts-on-the-cross/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 5 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the necessity of Penal Substitutionary Atonement as described in this 2017 SBC resolution. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. It is strange that the SBC resolution “On the necessity of penal substitutionary
- [Substitution, Justice, and Love: Reflections on Penal Substitutionary Atonement](https://thelondonlyceum.com/substitution-justice-and-love-reflections-on-penal-substitutionary-atonement/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 6 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering the necessity of Penal Substitutionary Atonement as described in this 2017 SBC resolution. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute some reflections on the SBC
- [Berlo & the Bible: Examining Tone in Revelation & Communication](https://thelondonlyceum.com/berlo-the-bible-examining-tone-in-revelation-communication/) - Aristotle & The Rhetorical Triangle Pathos, Ethos, and Logos. Anyone who has taken a basic public speaking course will recognize this as the basis for Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle. In simplest terms, it teaches that there is always more to communication than the mere words that are spoken or written.[1] Something that I have begun to
- [The Centrality of God in All Things: Divine Ideas, Creation Ex Nihilo](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-centrality-of-god-in-all-things-divine-ideas-creation-ex-nihilo/) - The Centrality of God in All Things People are meaning makers. This isn’t surprising. We are created in the image of the one who is the author of meaning and has instilled our creaturely existence with meaning. There are substantive ways we resemble our Creator, who has called us to reflect his glory by living
- [Which Plato? Whose Platonism? Summarizing the Christian Platonism Symposium](https://thelondonlyceum.com/which-plato-whose-platonism-summarizing-the-christian-platonism-symposium/) - Editor’s Note: This is our final summary of our Lyceum Disputation series considering the nature and potential necessity of contemporary “Christian Platonism.” As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. It is not breaking news that Christian Platonism has—somewhat unexpectedly—become a hot topic in the world of conservative evangelical theology.
- [Book Review: In Quest of the Historical Adam](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-in-quest-of-the-historical-adam/) - Editor's Note: The London Lyceum seeks to publish book reviews by experts in their field of research for the purpose of inspiring thinking. Therefore, not all reviews and/or reviewers will hold to our confessional commitments. Wherein they depart from the Second London Confession of Faith we disagree. But as with all our work, we publish
- [The Regulative Principle Among Baptists](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-regulative-principle-among-baptists/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 1 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering Baptist identity. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. A Biblically mandated Principle The Bible’s view of itself is that it is the sole source of revelation as to how one may
- [Baptists and the Sacraments](https://thelondonlyceum.com/baptists-and-the-sacraments/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 2 in our Lyceum Disputation series considering Baptist identity. Stay tuned for further installments. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. When a person considers the various branches in the tree of God’s people, Baptists are certainly recognized for particular convictions. However, one may
- [Heading Backwards: Toward a Trinitarian Doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement](https://thelondonlyceum.com/heading-backwards-toward-a-trinitarian-doctrine-of-penal-substitutionary-atonement/) - Editor’s Note: This is the final summary of our Lyceum Disputation series considering the necessity of Penal Substitutionary Atonement as described in this 2017 SBC resolution. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. The opinions about Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA) presented in this series have been varied. Joshua McNall and Adam
- [Book Review: It's Good to Be a Man](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-its-good-to-be-a-man/) - Foster, Michael and Tennant, Dominic Bnonn. It’s Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity. Moscow, ID: Canon Press, 2021. 242 pages. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-1954887398. $17.95. 1. Introduction Michael Foster is the pastor of East River Church in Batavia, Ohio, and Dominic Bnonn Tennant is a freelance copywriter and web designer living in
- [19th Century American Baptist Response to Slavery](https://thelondonlyceum.com/19th-century-american-baptist-response-to-slavery/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of our Lyceum Disputation series considering how Baptists responded to American slavery. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. In 1844, Richard Fuller (1804–1876) composed a letter to the editor of the Christian Reflector, a Boston based newspaper for Massachusetts Baptists. Fuller’s letter addressed
- [Baptists, Slavery, and the Road to Civil War](https://thelondonlyceum.com/baptists-slavery-and-the-road-to-civil-war/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of our Lyceum Disputation series considering how Baptists responded to American slavery. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. After Harriet Beech­er Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852, it went through 120 editions in less than a year. So consequential was the
- [Developing a Response to the Slavery Question: Northern Baptist Seminaries and the Unavoidable Controversy](https://thelondonlyceum.com/developing-a-response-to-the-slavery-question-northern-baptist-seminaries-and-the-unavoidable-controversy/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 3 of our Lyceum Disputation series considering how Baptists responded to American slavery. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Out of a multitude of controversies, the question of slavery was undoubtedly the most consequential for nineteenth-century American Baptists. It involved many people, a number
- [A Tale of Two Baptist Preachers: W.C. Buck, J.M. Pendleton and Slavery in Antebellum Kentucky](https://thelondonlyceum.com/a-tale-of-two-baptist-preachers-w-c-buck-j-m-pendleton-and-slavery-in-antebellum-kentucky/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 4 of our Lyceum Disputation series considering how Baptists responded to American slavery. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. It’s difficult to think of two Baptist preachers with more in common than W.C. Buck and J.M. Pendleton. Both men were born in northern Virginia
- [“We Cannot Uphold You”: Antebellum Baptists Who Bucked Prevailing Norms on Slavery](https://thelondonlyceum.com/we-cannot-uphold-you-antebellum-baptists-who-bucked-prevailing-norms-on-slavery/) - Editor’s Note: This is part 5 of our Lyceum Disputation series considering how Baptists responded to American slavery. As with all our work, the London Lyceum publishes a range of viewpoints to encourage thinking. Northern Baptists opposed slavery in the antebellum era and southern Baptists supported it. At least, that’s the conventional wisdom. It’s not an invalid summary of
- [The London Lyceum Top Books of 2022](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-london-lyceum-top-books-of-2022/) - Welcome back to our annual top books of the year post. Each year our board and fellows join together to submit their favorite book from the most recent year. Each book has a short synopsis of why it’s so great. You can find our previous recommendations here: 2020 and 2021. Links are embedded for ease. Happy reading! As a
- [Using the Past: A Review of the Symposium on Historical Methodology and Activism](https://thelondonlyceum.com/using-the-past-a-review-of-the-symposium-on-historical-methodology-and-activism/) - Not long ago, I was reading a book examining some not-so-great features of modern evangelicalism (hint: it was Jesus and John Wayne). I really wanted to learn from the book, so I read with an open mind and a critical eye. Surprisingly to me, the most profound lesson I learned was that the task of
- [Baptist, Linguist, and Faithful Pastor: Introducing Henry Jessey](https://thelondonlyceum.com/baptist-linguist-and-faithful-pastor-introducing-henry-jessey/) - Henry Jessey (1601-1663) is one of the those “larger-than-life” figures from the Puritan era that J.I. Packer properly referred to as “God’s Giants.”[1] Born in 1601, Jessey commenced his studies at St. John’s College, Cambridge at the age of 17. This was a time when Cambridge was producing hundreds of godly, Reformed ministers. St. John’s
- [2022 In Review](https://thelondonlyceum.com/2022-in-review/) - The Lord has been gracious to The London Lyceum once again in 2022 and we are thankful for your support, partnership, and friendship. Whether you listen to our podcasts, read our essays, watch our YouTube, or hang out in our Slack community, we believe the formation of friendships will help us achieve our mission. Our
- [Book Review: "All Thy Lights Combine"](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-all-thy-lights-combine/) - All Thy Lights Combine: Figural Reading in the Anglican Tradition. Edited by Ephraim Radner and David Ney. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2022. 304 pages. Hardcover. $32.99 "Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine, And the configurations of their glorie! Seeing not onely how each verse doth shine, But all the constellations of the
- [Five Reasons Historical Theology is Necessary for the Local Church](https://thelondonlyceum.com/five-reasons-historical-theology-is-necessary-for-the-local-church/) - John of Salisbury nearly ten centuries ago said that, “Bernard of Chartres used to compare us to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on
- [Does Baptist Identity Even Matter?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/does-baptist-identity-even-matter/) - When myths are perpetuated for long periods of time, they become, in the minds of many, fact. Among Baptists, there is a longstanding myth that the essence of Baptist identity is the freedom to believe whatever you want as long as you baptize believers by immersion. Some have called this “soul competence” or “soul freedom,”
- [John Collett Ryland on the Glorious Victory of Christ](https://thelondonlyceum.com/john-collett-rylands-on-the-glorious-victory-of-christ/) - As people around the world reflect this week about Christ’s resurrection, I want to recommend that you read this concluding excerpt from John Collett Ryland’s (1723–1792) funeral sermon for Andrew Gifford Jr. (1700–1784). Gifford was a faithful and fruitful Particular Baptist pastor for his entire adult life, and was known for his evangelistic preaching, as
- [Editorial Announcement: Expanding Church History Staff](https://thelondonlyceum.com/editorial-announcement-expanding-church-history-staff/) - The London Lyceum is pleased to announce the addition of two new editors and the promotion of a third. Given its continued growth the team has appointed Hunter Hindsman (Patristic Theology), Ryan Modisette (Medieval Theology), and Jonathan Baddley (Reformation Theology) as additional editors. The London Lyceum's President Jordan Steffaniak said: From day one as an
- [Book Review: Protestant Social Teaching](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-protestant-social-teaching/) - Roberts, Alastair, Matthew Lee Anderson, Brad Littlejohn, John Wyatt, et al. Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction. Landrum, SC: The Davenant Press, 2022. 248 pages. Softcover. 9781949716139. $26.95. 1. Introduction The purpose of the Davenant Institute is to “Retrieve the riches of classical Protestantism to renew and build up the contemporary church.” Their latest edited volume,
- [Book Review: Five Views on Christ in the OT](https://thelondonlyceum.com/book-review-five-views-on-christ-in-the-ot/) - Tabb, Brian J. and Andrew M. King, eds. Five Views of Christ in the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2022. 322 pages. Softcover. 978-0-310-12551-8. $26.99. Introduction In my seminary PhD program I took a seminar on hermeneutics. Only a few of us studied in the biblical studies program, with the rest seeking doctorates in preaching.
- [Tradition or Innovation?: Southern Baptists and the Ecclesial Office](https://thelondonlyceum.com/tradition-or-innovation-southern-baptists-and-the-ecclesial-office/) - July 1858, like so many summer months before, forced the townspeople of Greenville, South Carolina to head indoors during the hottest hours of the day. Although the town sat at nearly 1000 feet of elevation near the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the southern heat manifested anyway. People with business in the city transacted
- [Reflections on Theological Method, for My Students](https://thelondonlyceum.com/reflections-on-theological-method-for-my-students/) - I confess that much of my theological method has developed from the necessity of practicing the discipline of theology in the church, in my academic writing, and, especially, in the classroom. In my years in theological education, I have certainly read texts on theological method, but usually I find such texts of only indirect ecclesial
- [In Defense of Libraries](https://thelondonlyceum.com/in-defense-of-libraries/) - 1. The Death of the Library I recently saw a picture in my Facebook news feed contrasting the appearance of the Louisiana State University Library with the locker room of its football team. The library appears in disrepair, with plastic sheeting draped from the ceiling directing leaking rainwater into trash cans. The locker room, as
- [My Journey Toward Analytic Theological Theology](https://thelondonlyceum.com/my-journey-toward-analytic-theological-theology/) - When I first set foot onto UCLA’s campus, with its Romanesque Revival style architecture and green rolling hills, I was in awe. Even as an undergrad I knew that at the end of my four years studying physiological science I would be going to medical school (hopefully at UCLA) so that one day I could
- [A Protestant Catholicity?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/a-protestant-catholicity/) - Over the past few years, there has been increasing discussion regarding the catholicity of the Reformation. However, this conversation is nothing new. William Perkins’s (1558–1602) well known work, A Reformed Catholike (1598), argued that a “Reformed Catholike… [is] anyone that holds the same necessarie heades of religion with the Romane Church: yet so, as he
- [Were the General Baptists Biblicists?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/were-the-general-baptists-biblicists/) - The history of the English General Baptists of the seventeenth century is often reduced to a story of devolution into heterodoxy owing to strict biblicism. This interpretation almost always originates from writers who are very critical of Arminianism, seeing in it a slippery slope to a host of evils. This is seen, for example in
- [Affection and Brotherly Love Among the Saints: The Example of John Bradford](https://thelondonlyceum.com/affection-and-brotherly-love-among-the-saints-the-example-of-john-bradford/) - On a rainy Sunday morning last fall, I listened eagerly as a guest preacher addressed our church for the first time: ‘Beloved, let’s read from the book of Jonah, chapter two….’ Something in the intimacy of this address caught my attention. Beloved. A strange term, spoken by a stranger. This guy, a stranger to our
- [The Prisoner: Samuel Cartledge and the Earliest Georgia Baptists](https://thelondonlyceum.com/the-prisoner-samuel-cartledge-and-the-earliest-georgia-baptists/) - Introduction Samuel Cartledge may be one of the most important figures in Georgia Baptist history, and yet he is easily one of the most overlooked. It is my prayer that by God’s grace, this article will introduce him to you. For the few that know of Cartledge, I will more fully flesh him out as
- [Soul Competency or Regenerate Church Membership?](https://thelondonlyceum.com/soul-competency-or-regenerate-church-membership/) - Introduction Baptists have long asked the question, “what does it mean to be a Baptist?” E. Y. Mullins was the president of The Southern Baptist Seminary from 1899 to 1928 and argued that soul competency was Baptists’ “mother principle.”[1] According to Mullins, the competency of the soul in religion means “the right of private judgment
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