Disappearance of the Ministry? While degrees of change and variation are features of the life of the church throughout the centuries, there are, unmistakably, eras when the pace of change is quickened. Certain forms of church life, for instance, may remain basically the same over a long period of time; then, comparatively suddenly, new ideas […]

(The following is an excerpt from lain Murray’s “Annual Lecture of the Evangelical Library for 1972” under the title “John Knox,” published by the Evangelical Library and available from the Christian Discount Book Center [Grand Rapids] for 50¢.) We must move on to summarize the policy which lay behind Knox’s work of reform. What was […]