Tag: Faith Formation

Topic: Faith Formation

John Calvin’s two-fold notion of faith and the possibility of faith formation

The purpose of this study is exploring John Calvin’s two-fold notion of faith in the 1559 Institutes and its central implications for pastoral theology in the emerging Reformed tradition in order to reclaim a broader and contextualized understanding of pastoral care and its relation with faith formation. To that end, this paper will focus on the ways the emerging Reformed church of second mid-sixteenth century in Geneva applied the Calvinian notion of faith to pastoral theology. It also explores some applications of such an understanding, especially for the modern American-Dutch reformed church. In the Reformed faith Calvin’s two-fold notion of …

What the early church can teach us about growing in the knowledge and piety of the Lord?

Writings of the Early church such as The Didache, The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Ignatius’s Letters, the Martyrdom of Polycarp, and Justin’s First Apology deal, in some ways, with the formation of Christians’ faith and the promotion of the Christian life and its values. Although Christianity had its foundation in the Jewish tradition, it soon developed its own religious system theologically and practically. These writings are not only a reliable testimony of the development of the Christian faith and its departure from Judaism. They also show modern readers the importance Early Christian writers gave to the balance …