Providence Theological Seminary is pleased to host the distinguished theologian Ephraim Radner for a lecture entitled, “When Time Will Be No More: Reading the Bible without Historians,” on Tuesday, May 27 at 7:00 pm at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg. There will also be a livestream option for remote attenders. You can register here to receive the livestream link.
Continue reading Upcoming Lecture by Ephraim RadnerWhile the first ten books of The City of God are directed towards addressing the charges of the pagan critics who maintained that Christianity was responsible for the sack of Rome in 410 A.D., in the remaining books (XI-XXII) Augustine directs his attention to the arc of Scripture and the task of narrating the intertwined history of the “two cities.” The following is one of the central quotes in which Augustine makes clear his understanding of the differentiation between the two cities: Continue reading Augustine on the Two Cities
I am going to be back in Toronto on the weekend of September 29 to present a paper at the Canadian Society of Presbyterian History annual conference at Knox College. The subject of my paper is the curious case of J.J.A. Proudfoot, the son of the distinguished 19th century Southwestern Ontario Presbyterian church planter William Proudfoot. Continue reading Back in Toronto: Upcoming CSPH Conference