You might be familiar with John Locke’s famous treatise A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), but a new manuscript has been discovered by Locke on The Toleration of Catholics (1667-68) which allegedly precedes his famous work on toleration. See J. C. WALMSLEY and FELIX WALDMANN, “JOHN LOCKE AND THE TOLERATION OF CATHOLICS: A NEW MANUSCRIPT,” The Historical Journal (2019). The following Communication presents a newly discovered manuscript by John Locke. The manuscript dates from 1667–8 and it deserves notice as the most significant example of Locke’s thought on the... Read more

By Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton We recently finished reading our way through and conversing about an ancient meditation on God’s redemption of humanity. We’ve both read it before, several times in fact. It’s housed in a beautiful, slender volume—the kind that has that great old book smell and can profit the soul just by looking at it on the bookshelf.[1] Its foxed pages contain the kind of soul-food that nourishes ones enjoyment of God and provokes thoughts like,... Read more

F. Scott Spencer Luke (THNTC); ed. J. B. Green. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2019. Available at Eerdmans and Koorong. This is easily one of best written and “edgy” Luke commentaries I’ve read for a while – and I read a lot. I have several favourites in Luke commentaries: Green (NICNT), Bock (BECNT), Tannehill (Fortress) and this is definitely up there with them. F. Scott Spencer has spent a career in Luke-Acts and it shows in this Luke commentary, one of... Read more

Francis Chan recently preached a sermon where he said that we’ve replaced the Lord’s Supper with “one guy and his pulpit” and he also decried the mere memorialism of such evangelical practice of the Lord’s Supper and the marginalization of the Lord’s Supper to elevate the role of preaching. “For 1500 years there was never one guy and his pulpit being the center of the church. It was the body and blood of Christ, and even the leaders just saw themselves... Read more

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd once appeared on the talk show Q&A where he was asked by a member of the audience why he, as a Christian, doesn’t believe what Jesus says in the Bible about marriage being a divinely sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. His reply was curt and forceful version of a reductio absurdum argument: “Well mate, if I was gonna have that view, the Bible says that slavery is a natural condition. Because... Read more

Here is a guest article by Dr. Kate Tyler about her PhD Thesis now published as The Ecclesiology of Thomas F. Torrance (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2019). In the early days of trying to define a research topic in order to apply to a PhD programme, I had grand plans to combine the narrative approach of biblical theology, a fulsome systematic engagement with ecclesiology, and various missiological insights. If I had been allowed to take that path, I would probably still be working on... Read more