Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Calvin

  • CONTINGENCY

    A Lenten Meditation Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Ash Wednesday is about contingency—not contingency in the technical philosophical sense but the earthbound, timebound lives we live. As we are marked by ashes, the priest says, “Remember you are dust, and to dust you will return.” In his conversion poem, “Ash Wednesday,” T.…

  • RETRIEVING CALVIN. THE FIRST IN A SHORT SERIES: WHAT WE KNOW BEFORE WE KNOW

    We have failed Calvin. I mean the man, Jehan Cauvin, as he was known at the time, not the place. We have read Calvin through the eyes of those who came after, those who created the system known as Calvinism. Calvin was not himself a Calvinist. The late I. John Hesselink notes that: Calvinists come…