Heads up! Great new blog!
A good friend of the Conventicle, Andrew Tooley (PhD student, Univ. Stirling), has started what promises to be an excellent, enriching treatment on the study of religious history with Dr. David...
View ArticleTake our quiz scholarly opinion poll ...
C'mon. I know a lot of you know more about the Civil War than I do.Leave a comment on this post if you wish to "nuance" your answer.
View ArticleFriday Free for All: George Will on Charlie Rose, 4 June '08
Very little to do with puritanism, but highly entertaining (in my opinion).
View ArticleJohn Owen Today Conference: Update
Details of the papers to be presented are now available at John Owen Today.Main Papers:Willem van Asselt (Utrecht University, Holland), Covenant Theology as Relational Theology: The Contributions of...
View ArticleAll right, fine - but did he really deserve decapitation?
The votes are in from our scholarly opinion poll. Apparently our readership favours puritans. (Who knew?)Of 22 who weighed in:14 (66%!) thought Charles I bore the brunt of the responsibility for the...
View ArticleHistorian George S. Stuart on Charles I
From the series, 400 Years of English History. Stuart is a professional artist as well. The figurine you see at the beginning is his work.
View ArticleNew Book on Puritan Piety
Reformation Heritage Books has just published a new book by J. Stephen Yuille, entitled, "Trading and Thriving in Godliness: the Piety of George Swinnock".The book description reads:George Swinnock...
View ArticleChristian Scholars, Please Write Plainly!
Some thoughts from the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, writing in 1653 of his own writing:'With regard to our manner of writing, or Latin diction, as some are wont to acquire great praise from...
View ArticleConventicle Q&A with Dr Stephen Yuille
Dr Stephen Yuille is the preaching elder at Braidwood Bible Chapel in Peterborough, Ontario. He is also a part-time Professor of Biblical Studies with Toronto Baptist Seminary. His doctoral work on...
View ArticleThe Conventicle, 95 Theses, and (!) my dissertation 'Wordled'
Is there any question which puritan gets the most coverage here? (Admittedly though, there's more than one puritan named 'John', not to mention that we also have a prolific contributor by that...
View ArticleI'm addicted to Wordle ...
Jonathan Edwards's sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God":The Westminster Confession:and to renew the pride of my Scottish friends, the Falkirk speech that William Wallace delivered, in...
View ArticleTake this, Chris!
Here is my thesis thus far. I think I'll just hand this is at my viva.
View ArticleDave Walker knows my life
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
View ArticleJohn Owen Today Conference: Latest Updates
The entire programme of the conference is now finalised and available here.Updates include the following:1. Carl Trueman is unable to present a paper (to the disappointment of many participants I'm...
View ArticleThe cry of English puritans
Thought I would share this, a classic expression of the puritan ethos, in a letter from two English clergy, Laurence Humphrey and Thomas Sampson, to Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger, in 1566:Why...
View ArticleChrist, the Fountain-Head of Christian Dogmatics
I don’t read Dutch. I have little acquaintance with the Dutch Reformed tradition. Apart from occasional forays into Witsius, Voetius, and Cocceius, for my Owen thesis, and a little dose of Bavinck now...
View ArticleStick around (please)
I want to thank all of you that have returned here from time to time to see what's happening at the Conventicle. We really appreciate it. Here's an update about me personally and about this site:I'm...
View ArticlePoint in Case
After reading a glut of modern folks examining the puritans, it is always interesting to read puritans talking about puritans. In this case, we see it in an explosive sermon preached by Thomas Case to...
View ArticleA book suggestion
Recently I found what looks to be a fun (but slightly irreverent) read on the New England puritans, called The Wordy Shipmates. Sarah Vowell, the author, has written a handful of similar works, and is...
View ArticleGood resource on the Federal Vision?
I'm looking for a good book or website that covers the Federal Vision succinctly and objectively (as much as possible) -- the views associated, and perhaps also the controversy resulting.You can use...
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