by Jean Barbey | Jun 23, 2024 | Christianity, Prolegomena, Reformation, Scripture
What place does the Bible have in the Christian faith? Historic Protestantism has considered it to be God’s written revelation, and therefore the only ultimate standard for faith, Christian life and the organisation of the church. 1 Sola Scriptura In...
by Jean Barbey | Sep 27, 2023 | Reformation, Soteriology
Scripture proclaims the omniscience and omnipotence of God, who therefore knows in advance who will believe in Jesus Christ to receive the salvation acquired by his death on the Cross. But do the ‘saints’ believe because God has chosen them, or has God...
by Jean Barbey | Jan 1, 2023 | Pneumatology, Reformation, Soteriology
The Zwinglian conception of Christian salvation is linked to a form of humanist universalism of the Spirit that contrasts with the usual conceptions of the Reformation, but which echoes a certain reading of the epistle to the Romans. Here are a few points of reference...