We're BAAAACK!!!!

We made it back from Minnesota ok! It was a great trip and we needed to get out of Texas for a while. While we were there we got to meet Marc Heinrich of Purgatorio at the Christmas Eve service at Bethlehem Baptist Church (John Piper's Church).

We also got to go to Stillwater, which meant that I got to shop at both Loome Books locations. Here are the gold nuggets I found in their stores:

1) Hans Urs Von Balthasar, "The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church"

2) Hans Kung, "Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection"

3) John Henry Cardinal Newman, "Select Treatises of St. Athanasius in Contraversy with the Arians" (2 vols)

4) Jaroslav Pelikan, "The Mystery of Continuity: Time and History, Memory and Eternity in the Thought of Saint Augustine"

5) Anri Morimoto, "Jonathan Edwards and the Catholic Vision of Salvation"

6) Ralph McInerny, "Boethius and Aquinas"

7) Joseph Owens, "Towards a Christian Philosophy"

8) Bernard Lohse, "Martin Luther's Theology: Its Historical and Systematic Development"

Also, in the bookstore at John Piper's church I found these two books:




Besides book shop (I did in fact do other things besides bookshop), we saw family and had a wonderful Christmas. So all in all it was a great trip (and a great book buying trip).

Now, back to blogging . . . be patient because I am about to type up my thoughts on an issue that is very controversial and post it (I don't want to let the cat out of the bag). This issue has been in certain discussions I have had with several people (as well as family members) recently and I at least wanted to get some thoughts (of course not exhaustive thoughts) in a post (or perhaps two).

Following that, I have intended to do a series on John Calvin's Theology from a more historical perspective (using only Calvin's works) and lay out a few smaller posts which will be summations of Calvin's thoughts on certain issues (this will certainly not be exhaustive either). So please be patient as I play "catch up."