"Every generation faces the temptation to wander from Christian teaching, and so every generation must be awakened again to the thrill of orthodoxy. Returning to the church's creeds, Trevin Wax beckons us away from the broad yet ultimately boring road toward the straight and narrow path, where true adventures can be found"--

"From their formulation in the sixteenth century through the present day, every generation of Lutheran leadership has grappled with the centrality and importance of the Lutheran confessional writings. In this important new volume, Arand, Kolb, and Nestingen bring the fruit of an entire generation of scholarship to bear on these documents, making it an essential and up-to-date class text. The Lutheran confessions places the documents solidly within...

What do the Canons of Dordt mean to people in the Las Vegas airport--and does anyone there even care? In the movie Hardcore, a pious Calvinist elder tries unsuccessfully to explain the TULIP theology of his Dutch Reformed faith to a prostitute in the Las Vegas airport. This incongruous conversation demonstrates how Calvinism is often perceived today: irrelevant, harsh, even disrespectful. Beginning with this movie scene, Calvinism in the Las Vegas...

This is the first collection in modern English of the twelve principal Confessions of Faith of the Reformed Churches of the sixteenth century, and the Editor's scholarly Introduction shows why it is desirable to fill this gap. Dr Cochrane adds notes on the documents, many of which he has translated. The statements included range from Zwingli's 67 Articles (1523) through the Scots Confession of 1560 to the Second Helvetic Confession of 1566. The Heidelberg...