A 39-year-old Clerk in Holy Orders. ๐ฌ๐ง in ๐บ๐ธ. ๐คบ. Director of Student Affairs and Lecturer in Theology @NewSaintAndrews. I have no pastoral gifts.
"Something remarkable is here demanded from princes, besides an ordinary profression of faith; for the Lord has bestowed on them authority and power to defend the Church and to promote the glory of God." - Calvin, Commentary on Isaiah.
@elonmusk Not @NewSaintAndrews! Classical texts in original languages, works of theology, history, literature and philosophy from the Western tradition. Weโre looking forwarding to welcoming @americanmoment next week!
One thing that drives home the universality of the 1662 one-year Sunday lectionary compared to modern three-year lectionaries is the way the Bach cantatas for Epiphany II work for the BCP gospel! https://t.co/Eqdl6sUbK0
@liambeadle The issue isnโt whether Davenant was right or not, though, but about whether the position which holds that Christ had multiple ends in the atonement, dying for all in one sense and the elect in another, can be called hypothetical universalism.
@liambeadle (2) Merit salvific grace to be infallibly applied to the elect alone. These two intentions are the sine qua non of Davenantian hypothetical universalism and Reformed hypothetical universalism more generally. (2/2)
@liambeadle Michael Lynch on Davenant: โDavenant taught that God had two main intentions in the death of Christ: (1) Make a satisfaction for all sins such that the gospel offer can have an objective ground to say that โGod is able to forgive you (any โyouโ) of your sins; (1/2)
@OSacrumCorIesu Christ, a key, representing the right to enter the city, and a clementine in the toe, to represent eating from the tree of life. The adults hated it. 2/2
@OSacrumCorIesu I preached the stocking talk my last Christmas in the parish. My text was Revelation 22.13-14. I got them to guess Greek letters (it was a COVID year) then had the children draw three objects from a stocking: washing powder, representing washing our robes in the blood of 1/2
@flemingrut Shouldnโt Advent 1 be the start of preaching on judgement and Godโs promises? Iโm not convinced that Christ the King isnโt a mid-C20th novelty.