Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God, Alvin Plantinga of Michigan's Calvin College, develops a related argument from one of the pressing issues in modern epistemology. Though it sounds strange to the man in the street, philosophers ponder how an individual can know that there is...
Martin Luther was the lightning of the Protestant Reformation; John Calvin was its thunder. John was only eight in 1517 when the 95 theses were nailed up on a Wittenberg church door. Within 30 years he would rise to succeed Luther as leader of the Reformation, codifying what the master...
Those teachings soon overshadowed their God-struck author. John Knox carried Calvinism to Scotland, converting the rambunctious Catholic country with messages of doom. Puritan Jonathan Edwards shook the New World when he called the colonials "sinners in the hands of an angry God." Early in the 20th century, German Sociologist...
Thwarted expectations make for grumpy readers, and Freddy's manuscript, a rather dry narrative of political intrigue in 16th century Scandinavia, does not seem calculated to appease them. The chief antagonists to emerge from much torchlit huggermugger are Lars-Goren, an idealistic Swedish knight, and the Devil, who decides...
He comes by his interest in other religions naturally. After his Presbyterian father died, Baum's Catholic mother married a Jewish businessman in Kansas City, Mo., whose surname the prelate took. He is close to many Protestant and Jewish relatives. During 15 years as a Missouri pastor, theology professor...