REFORMATION MARRIAGE
By Michael Parsons
Rutherford House Publishing. 386 pages. £19.99
ISBN 0 946068 91 7
This is a historical theology book which looks at the husband and wife relationship in the writings of Luther and Calvin.
The starting point is a review of modern academic assessments of the two great Reformers on this subject and the idea that some have expressed in recent years that Calvin seems not so fixed concerning the roles of marriage partners, but is open to the possibility of change as culture changes. Obviously the feminist agenda of our times is in the background of this study.
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …