Be it known throughout Blogaria, its universities, their satellites and the other various and sundry blogish communities that from this point until May 15th, I will be blogging about John "Just Call Me Right" Calvin. Be ye warned.
Just picked up these two books to add to the research collection.
John Calvin, the Church and the Eucharist by Kilian McDonnell, OSB
The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West, vol. 2 by Irena Backus ed.
Ah...Calvin.
Christ is not a deceiver, to mock us with empty representations.20 Hence it is regarded by me as beyond all controversy, that the reality is here conjoined with the sign; or, in other words, that we do not less truly become participants in Christ's body in respect of spiritual efficacy, than we partake of the bread. This is from his commentary on 1 Corinthians 11:24.
Why, O why do I love it so?!
Posted by tripp at March 16, 2004 02:27 PMBecause Calvin delivers a dogmatic definiteness that you find lacking in Baptistitude?
;)
Posted by: Megan at March 16, 2004 03:24 PMI'm sorry, I don't know why it posted twice.
Posted by: Megan at March 16, 2004 03:24 PMwhy, oh, why, would you not want weekly conjoining?
Posted by: jeremy at March 16, 2004 04:39 PMConjoining is fun? Who knew?! And, Megan, thanks for the new word. I'll delete the duplicate comment.
Posted by: Tripp at March 16, 2004 10:14 PMTripp,
Where did you find a copy of McDonnell's book? I've actually found a couple, but they were $80 and $112. Were I to drop that on one study of Calvin I'd have to go into the Witness Protection Program.
Fine blog, keep of the Calvinian Theses...folks could use a good shock now and again.
Peace.
Posted by: Thomas at March 16, 2004 11:10 PMThomas, I found it in the United Library. Interesting that it is so difficult to find. He is used by all the leading contemporary scholars. Hmmm...There may be a mystery here. You see, there are three copies in the library's posession. Two have gone missing. You don't think that there is a plot to suppress scholarship that suggests that Calvin was a sacramentalist, do you?!
What lengths will these Baptists go to?!
Hold on. I'm Baptist. Doh!
Posted by: Tripp at March 17, 2004 07:36 AMWhere's Fox Mulder when we need him? Baptists, followers of the late Charles Hodge, Lutherans who don't want the world to know, even devout Calvinists who want to protect their master's memory from the dreaded 'S-Word' - this could be a cabal of monstrous proportions. They're probably monitoring this exchange at this very moment... Did you hear something??
Posted by: Thomas at March 17, 2004 09:52 AMOoo...spooky. I wonder if Dan Brown has written a book about this.
Posted by: Tripp at March 17, 2004 10:42 AM