Calvin as a Controversialist by Cornelius Van Til

Calvin’s activity as a controversialist began with his “sudden conversion” to the Protestant faith. To become a Protestant was, for Calvin as well as for Luther, to become an Augustinian who tested Augustine’s teaching by Scripture. All controversies …Read More

Heresy of the Free Spirit by Kevin DeYoung

FROM TABLETALK | March 2011

Marguerite Porete was a French mystic born in the thirteenth century. She was part of the Beguines, a voluntary, informal, semi-monastic community not unlike the new monasticism popping up in some urban centers. Marguerite, though unknown to almost all contemporary …Read More

To Be Deep in History by Keith Mathison

FROM TABLETALK | September 2010

The nineteenth century witnessed the conversions of two prominent Anglican clergymen to Roman Catholicism. Both men would ultimately become cardinals in the Roman Church, and both men would profoundly influence Roman Catholic theology. The first was John Henry Newman (1801 …Read More

A Supernatural Faith by R.C. Sproul

FROM TABLETALK | July 2007

“The God hypothesis is no longer necessary to explain the origin of the universe or the development of human life.” This assertion was at the very heart of the movement that took place in the eighteenth century that we call …Read More

Pilgrims Who Make No Progress by Gene Edward Veith

FROM TABLETALK | January 2006

To describe life as a journey is such a perfect metaphor that writers in every age return to it again and again. Western culture is full of pilgrims, headed in different directions, to different destinations. Before John Bunyan’s Pilgrim …Read More

The Rise of the Papacy by David Wells

FROM TABLETALK | August 2005

There are one billion Roman Catholics worldwide, one billion people who are subject to the Pope’s authority. How, one might ask, did all of this happen? The answer, I believe, is far more complex and untidy than Catholics have …Read More

“The Greatest of All Protestant Heresies”? by Sinclair Ferguson

FROM TABLETALK | August 2004

Let us begin with a church history exam question. Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621) was a figure not to be taken lightly. He was Pope Clement VIII’s personal theologian and one of the most able figures in the Counter-Reformation …Read More

The National Denier: Fiction Stranger than the Truth! by S.M. Baugh

FROM TABLETALK | April 2001

It is strange, is it not, that perfectly rational, even brilliant people should believe the most untenable of fables but disbelieve the most believable of historical events? No, it is beyond strange: it is downright tragic, because to deny this …Read More

“If I Should Die Before I Wake …” by Harold Brown

FROM TABLETALK | April 2000

WHAT HAPPENS TO US AT DEATH? We know what happens to the body, but what happens to the soul? The materialist’s answer is simple: There is no such thing as a soul, so there is no hope of eternal …Read More

The Subtle Lure of Liberalism by Timothy George

FROM TABLETALK | April 1992

It has been a long time since I met an authentic, bold-faced liberal, one willing to claim that one word as a badge of identity. Many evangelical Christians believe, of course, that such creatures did, in fact, once exist. In …Read More