Announcement of Publication: Stahl, The Recovery of Historical Law

As the world reels from crisis to crisis, the most serious one seems to draw the least attention. And that is the crisis of the Western mind. The seeds of radical subjectivism sown at the time of a previous such crisis, chronicled in Paul Hazard’s Crisis of the European Mind, have now borne fruit, fruit …

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Announcement of publication: A Theology of Nature

Nowadays we in the church hear much of the task given to us to be good stewards over God’s creation. We are to treat the creation as a fragile, vulnerable artifact given us by God, to be cherished and taken special care of. The animal and plant kingdoms are precious treasures to be maintained in …

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Announcement of Publication: Spirit, Law, and the Church Critiques of Rudolph Sohm

What is the place of “organization” in the church? To what degree does the church need to be “organized”? At bottom, that was the question addressed by the famed Lutheran legal scholar and church historian Rudolph Sohm (1841–1917). His conclusion was radical: organization was anathema to the church as a spiritual body, and was only …

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Announcement of Publication: Rougemont, The Individualists in Church & State

WordBridge Publishing announces the publication of Frédéric de Rougemont, The Individualists in Church & State. Translated from the French edition of 1844 by Colin Wright. ABOUT THE BOOK: The church steadily weakens; the state, filling the void, steadily strengthens. Unbelief runs rampant; faith withers. The morality of the barnyard triumphs; decency and honour vanish in the mists. …

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Announcement of publication: Ph. J. Hoedemaker, The Church and Modern Constitutional Law

Page link (Aalten, The Netherlands, October 14th, 2014) — WordBridge Publishing announces the publication of Philippus J. Hoedemaker’s The Church and Modern Constitutional Law. Translated from the Dutch edition of 1904. ABOUT THE BOOK: Philippus Hoedemaker (1839-1910) was a Dutch preacher and theologian, best known for his diametrical opposition to Abraham Kuyper. Having started their careers as friends, these two ended …

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