In my late teens and early twenties, I was part of the early so-called, “young, restless, and Reformed” movement. This meant, among other things, that I had to read some Geerhardus Vos, whom everyone at the time recommended as a must-read. As an undergraduate student at a Bible institute, I was well-prepared to handle Vos’s […]
Friday, 15 January, 2021 by Michael Lynch
Contemporary Reformed theologians, ministers, and congregants often misunderstand their early modern ancestors on the issue of baptismal regeneration. Such misunderstanding has come from two different sides of contemporary Reformed theology. On the one hand, there are those who claim that even the Westminster Confession teaches baptismal regeneration. Of course, were this the case—and it is […]
Wednesday, 11 November, 2020 by Michael Lynch
First Witch: Where hast thou been, Sister? Second Witch: Killing Swine Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 3) One of the pleasures of my day job is reading older texts with young people. In my course on the Old Testament, we quickly bump into questions related to how we ought to interpret the Bible in light […]
Monday, 14 September, 2020 by Michael Lynch