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What’s New @ Calvin Seminary
Master Level Courses in Spanish Beginning this fall, Calvin Seminary will begin offering online courses that are taught entirely in Spanish. These courses will provide training for current and future…
PhD Program Celebrates Silver Anniversary
The fall of 2017 marked the 25th anniversary of Calvin Seminary’s PhD program. Seminary faculty had floated the idea of such a program as far back as the 1940s, but…
Practicing Church Discipline: Wisdom From The Field
Practically speaking, what does it look like for a person to be faithfully discipled, especially when Belgic Confession Article 29 teaches that the third mark of a true church is…
Dare to Discipline
It must be admitted that the Church does not have a very good track record of dealing with its wayward members in the humble, gracious, and Christ-like manner that allows…
The Grace of Discipline
In his classic work, The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned Christians in 1930s Nazi Germany against the subtle deceitfulness of what he called cheap grace. “Cheap grace is the…
On The Potter’s Wheel
“But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him” (Jer.…
John Bolt Retires
After nearly three decades, John Bolt is approaching his impending retirement from Calvin Theological Seminary with admitted ambivalence, grateful to be liberated from long faculty meetings and other academic tedium…
500 Years Later: A Conversation Between Catholics and Protestants
As a part of a larger series of events and programs planned for Fall 2017 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Calvin Seminary hosted an evening of talks…
The Meaning of Martha: Catholics and Protestants on Work and Vocation
Mary and Martha. I think we all know the story as related in the tenth chapter of the gospel according to St. Luke. After telling the parable of the good…