Category Archives: Church History

Podcast: Living Through the Church’s Exile

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Alastair Roberts

On the latest Mere Fidelity podcast, I join Derek Rishmawy, Matt Lee Anderson, and Andrew Wilson to discuss the rhetoric of the Church being in ‘exile’ or entering into ‘winter’. As background reading for the discussion, you may want to start … Continue reading →

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A Conversation on Lent, Individualism, and Christian Piety

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Alastair Roberts

My friend Jake Meador and I had a wide-ranging e-mail conversation over the last few days. It was posted on Mere Orthodoxy earlier today. It is lengthy, but worth checking out. The following are a few quotations from our discussion to … Continue reading →

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The Davenant Trust

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Alastair Roberts

The Davenant Trust has just been launched. Its mission is described as follows: We aim to equip evangelical and Reformed Christians today for church leadership, civic participation, and faithful discipleship in other vocations as responsible citizens, by encouraging scholarly research … Continue reading →

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What is Evangelicalism? – Part 4

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Read the other parts of ‘What Is Evangelicalism?’ Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 This post concludes my series on the definition of evangelicalism. Evaluating Hart’s Thesis I find Hart’s iconoclastic thesis broadly persuasive. However, I want to challenge it … Continue reading →

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What is Evangelicalism? – Part 3

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Read the other parts of ‘What Is Evangelicalism?’ Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 In my previous post, I suggested that evangelicalism is a particular form of Protestantism marked by the marginalization of the institutional church. Within this and the post … Continue reading →

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What is Evangelicalism? – Part 1

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Alastair Roberts

Read the other parts of ‘What Is Evangelicalism?’ Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 I hope to begin posting reviews of recent reading within the next week. I have already finished several books that I plan to review and will … Continue reading →

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Protestantism, Eucharistic Participation in Christ’s Flesh, and Transubstantiation

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Alastair Roberts

It is popularly supposed in certain quarters that the general denial of transubstantiation among Protestants and particularly by the Reformers was occasioned by a resistance to the ideas of the ‘Real Presence’ of Christ in the Eucharist, or to the … Continue reading →

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