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John Gilmour: A Canadian Baptist Every Christian Could Learn From

It is difficult to quantify the impact that the late Rev. John Gilmour has had on the Christian faith in Canada, specifically in Baptist churches. Born in Ayr, Scotland in 1792, despite his academic brilliance, Gilmour opted out of his formal education to become a marine merchant at the young age of nine. On one particular trip at Sea, Gilmour’s ship never did return home. It was at the time of the Napoleonic wars, and the French had captured him and his crew. During his time in prison, Gilmour spent ample time reading and studying. He mastered the French language...

David Mann

The Virtue of Reading Ordinary Christians

Micah Caswell

Reading about the lives of ordinary Christians from the past gives hope for how to have an impact on our own generation today. While many read about the luminaries, the virtue of reading about ordinary Christians often goes overlooked. Reflecting on the history of ordinary Christians helps preserve our faith, deepen our theology, deepen our understanding of contemporary culture, and is, in fact, an enjoyable venture. Yes, enjoyable. Reading History Preserves Our Faith I recently published Thomas Patient: the Father of the Irish Baptist Church. Prior to my research, I had never heard of Patient. In many ways, he was...

Word or Image? Wisdom from Theodulf of Orléans

Michael A. G. Haykin

The Libri Carolini was drawn up by Theodulf of Orléans (c.760-821)—one of the key theologians of the Carolingian church and the author of the well-known hymn “All glory, laud, and honour”—in 790–793 and then later revised by him with the help of, among others, Alcuin of York (c.732–804)—the private tutor to Charlemagne and the head of the palace school at Aachen. It was a well-argued response by the Latin-speaking Carolingian Church to the iconodulist decrees of the Second Council of Nicaea (787). In essence, the Libri Carolini sought to refute this council’s advocacy of the use of icons as vehicles...

“Sacred Scripture … is placed high on a throne”: Augustine on the Bible

Michael A. G. Haykin

  Augustine, like other Patristic authors, believed without hesitation that God had caused the Bible to be written. He accepted both its inspiration and its inerrancy. He thus used such terms as inspirare and dictare to stress that in the writing of Scripture the initiative is God’s alone and that he determined what was to be written in the pages of Holy Writ. Augustine also consistently used the ablative case when referring to the work of the Holy Spirit in writing Scripture and the preposition per when referring to the role of the biblical authors. By this means he made...

A June 2019 Tour of Some Churches of the Tri-Cities (Part I)

Michael A. G. Haykin

This past week I had the privilege of teaching “Canadian Evangelicalism” as a class at Heritage Theological Seminary. I finished the week convinced afresh of the importance of knowing one’s immediate theological roots. I hope the students came away with this conviction as well. The final day of the course was a church tour. In previous years when this course has been taught I have taken students to congregations and church buildings near Brantford and Simcoe (where there are a number of early nineteenth-century congregations), or Hamilton and Burlington. This year we focused on churches in the Tri-cities of Waterloo,...

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