Thanksgiving is a traditional celebration that has its roots in the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th. In 1789, George Washington declared it a national holiday. Thanksgiving as we celebrate it today, however, dates back to 1863 when Abraham Lincoln officially made it recurrent on the last Thursday of November. Traditionally, Thanksgiving has been understood as a twofold holiday with a cultural-historical and religious dimension. People not only celebrated the earlier tradition of the first harvest but also offered a prayer of gratitude to God. This prayer had different purposes over time such as thanking …

Crecí en Latinoamérica, en un país donde apenas el 4 o 5 % de la población era protestante. También era una época y un lugar donde el protestantismo se entendía casi exclusivamente como oposición a todo lo católico, y donde la mayoría de los católicos sabían muy poco sobre los protestantes, más allá de que eran herejes. La mayoría de mis compañeros de secundaria eran católicos de forma muy superficial. Pero otros eran muy devotos, y una de las manifestaciones de su devoción fue que se persignaron al saber que yo era protestante. En el primer capítulo de su libro …

This article offers some statistics from Heinrich Bullinger’s The Decades with a brief analysis as evidence that Bullinger must be understood as the forerunner, not the father, of federal theology, due to his discussion of the covenant doctrine is limited, inconsistent, exploratory, and slightly integrated with the rest of his theological thought. Having tested Baker and McCoy’s thesis that Bullinger’s doctrine of the covenant is an organizing and central principle in most of his published works (especially in The Decades), one arrives at the conclusion that their thesis is not totally accurate. One might observe that Bullinger cannot be considered …

Después de dos cirugías, tres sesiones intensas de quimioterapia, veinticinco sesiones de radiación, cinco caídas al suelo y varias citas y visitas a urgencias, tuve una crisis de fe. ¿Por qué Dios permitió que un cáncer agresivo atacara mi cuerpo?, me preguntaba con frecuencia. Hace dos años y medio, este mes (diciembre de 2024), comenzó mi lucha contra el cáncer. Esta lucha estuvo llena de sufrimiento e incertidumbre, pero también de esperanza y agradecimiento. Si hay algo positivo que me trajo mi diagnóstico de cáncer fue el tipo de vida de oración que tengo ahora. Orar salmos, por ejemplo, se …

In his 1902 essay titled “Contemporary Morality,” Herman Bavinck starts by admitting that there is a lack of discussion regarding moral principles and issues in his society and his church. For him, the importance of paying attention to moral principles and moral issues is that by their own nature human beings have needs, which differ from visible things. In order to live their lives well, he says, people should know the rule by which they organize their lives. Bavinck claims that morality discussions can go from questions such as what is good and what is evil to practical matters such …

In Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care the balance of the Christian life of the clergy not only permeates Gregory’s discussions in each major section of the book but also this theological motif served him to challenge the tendency of the clergy of his times to have a negative attitude towards the active life. Overall, Gregory’s middle-ground position of work is noteworthy and deserves more attention. He seems to defend ‘the mixed life’ in his discussions, where the balance motif serves such a purpose. The ‘mixed life’ is understood as the combination of both the active and contemplative life of the …