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Review: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman

Review: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman

Published by Lionel Windsor on December 14, 2020

I need to understand the people around me, so I can live for the gospel among them and speak the gospel to them. To do that, I need to understand the people around me. That’s where Carl Trueman’s book is so incredibly valuable.

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How did the Reformers respond to plagues? Learning from history with Mark Earngey @ Moore College

How did the Reformers respond to plagues? Learning from history with Mark Earngey @ Moore College

Published by Lionel Windsor on April 12, 2020

I have a chat to Mark Earngey, Head of the Church History Department at Moore College, about his upcoming public online lecture “Protestants and Plagues”

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Donald Robinson on the Origins of the Anglican Church League

Donald Robinson Selected Works volumes 3 and 4

Donald Robinson on the Origins of the Anglican Church League

Published by Lionel Windsor on August 9, 2019

History matters. It makes us question things we take for granted, it helps us to understand who we are, and it gives us a broader perspective on the issues we face today. One example – relevant for evangelical Anglicans, especially in Sydney – is an essay in Donald Robinson Selected Works, volume 4 (recently published by the Australian Church Record and Moore College).

The essay is called “The Origins of the Anglican Church League” (pp. 125–52). It’s a republication of a paper given in 1976 by Donald Robinson (1922–2018), former Moore College Vice-Principal and later Archbishop of Sydney. In the paper, Robinson traces some of the currents and issues that led to the formation of the Anglican Church League in the early twentieth century. The essay is classic Donald Robinson: full of surprises, yet definitely still worth reading today to help us gain perspective on issues for evangelical Anglicans past and present.

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Reformation sights in Oxford UK

Reformation sights in Oxford UK

Published by Lionel Windsor on December 23, 2018

Some sights in Oxford UK, that are especially significant for Reformation history and the deaths of the Oxford Martyrs Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer.

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Justification and Union with Christ in Paul – PowerPoint for paper

Justification and Union with Christ in Paul – PowerPoint for paper

Published by Lionel Windsor on May 26, 2017

A link to the PowerPoint for the paper I am giving today at the Moore College Justification Summit

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Katoomba Christian Convention – a short history

Katoomba Christian Convention – a short history

Published by Lionel Windsor on January 10, 2017

A short history of the Katoomba Christian Convention, by Paul Innes. The Youngs’ 1903 vision to share the Scriptures continues today.

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Justification by Faith Only: the doctrine on which the church falls or stands?

Justification by Faith Only: the doctrine on which the church falls or stands?

Published by Lionel Windsor on April 21, 2015

Without the doctrine of justification by faith only we neither know the fullness of who Jesus is or who we are. How can the church stand without either?

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Preachers and Leaders 3: Preaching as congregational leadership: a venerable history

Preachers and Leaders 3: Preaching as congregational leadership: a venerable history

Published by Lionel Windsor on June 17, 2014

The regular sermon, according to key figures from church history including Chrysostom, Augustine, Calvin, Cranmer and Perkins, is the key means by which shepherd-leaders fulfil their responsibility to ensure that the truth of God’s word is guarded, learned and obeyed among their congregations.

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The “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” quite likely a modern forgery

Published by Lionel Windsor on September 21, 2012

Admittedly, “Jesus had a wife” is a more sensational headline than “Media outlets fooled by modern forgery.” But it seems the latter headline is more…

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Spectacular find: original Greek sermons by Origen of Alexandria discovered

Published by Lionel Windsor on June 12, 2012

[My translation of the original article from the Bavarian State Library, H/T Ben Blackwell]: A spectacular discovery was recently made in the Bavarian State Library,…

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More on Moore College’s theological legacy: Graeme Goldsworthy

Published by Lionel Windsor on May 25, 2012

To follow up on my previous post about Donald Robinson and Broughton Knox: “The evangelical Christian world owes a great debt to Graeme Goldsworthy”. These…

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With gratitude for a rich (and ongoing) biblical and theological legacy – Moore College

Published by Lionel Windsor on May 23, 2012

A short quiz: Which seminary lecturer described his course this way (and when)? the course quickly developed into an introduction to the theology of the…

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Anglicanism for dummies (and for everyone else)

Published by Lionel Windsor on May 21, 2012

Don’t let the dusty-sounding title of Ashley Null’s paper, 16th Century Anglican Ecclesiology, put you off. It’s a devotional, deep, rich, concise yet scholarly account…

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Evangelicals and the slave trade

Published by Lionel Windsor on December 2, 2011

A while back I was looking through my father-in-law’s collection of old newspapers and found this little piece in the London Gazette (Monday August 26,…

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Luther On Law

Published by Lionel Windsor on September 21, 2011

This is an astonishingly profound and helpful summary of Luther’s understanding of the significance of God’s “Law”. I commend it especially to preachers. A warning…

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Doctrines Under Threat 2: Union with Christ

Published by Lionel Windsor on May 7, 2011

Outline (Reading from Romans 6) Intro: Faith and Works Union with Christ in Philippians 3 Righteousness by law is rubbish (2-7) Knowing Christ (8a) Gaining…

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Happy 400th Birthday, King James Bible

Published by Lionel Windsor on January 9, 2011

Last year I lamented the fact that some educated Brits have squandered their heritage and effectively transferred the emotional and spiritual ownership of the King…

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A prayer request from an Aussie living in the Mother Country

Published by Lionel Windsor on May 5, 2010

From the Sola Panel I was listening the other day to a satirical comedy show on British Radio. The presenter was making a point about…

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The language of Chalcedon

Published by Lionel Windsor on December 22, 2009

A few years back, I put together this visual summary of the terminology the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) used to express the biblical doctrines…

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Thomas Cranmer the Protestant reformer during the reign of King Henry VIII

Published by Lionel Windsor on November 19, 2009

Lionel Windsor (2004) Introduction: A Protestant Reformer? For a comfortable theoretician to assess the actions of a man caught up in the cut and thrust…

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