Category Archives: Zanchi

For Scripture is so holy and perfect, abundantly containing whatsoever is necessary for salvation, that nothing can be added to it, and it is also so perfectly and prudently composed that nothing can be taken away from it. Girolamo Zanchi, Confession of the Christian Religion, §I.ix Now Zanchi continues with his description of the characterContinue reading “Reading CCR: All We Need and Altogether Necessary (§I.ix-x)”

Zanchi has already confessed that the canon of Scripture is the normative authority which alone can be used to prove the “tenets of the faith” (§I.v). But now he’s going to circle back around because he wants make sure that we state the proper relationship between the authority of Scripture and the authority of theContinue reading “Reading CCR: Come and See (§I.vi-viii)”

There’s a second half to CCR §I.iii that takes up the distinction between canonical and apocryphal books. The former are those that have been accepted everywhere, always, and by all the church as theopneustos (God-breathed) because, as Barclay put it, “no one could stop them.” But what about those that were “less evident[ly]… from theContinue reading “Reading CCR: Learning to Love the Apocrypha? (§I.iii-v)”

The canonical books alone are the prophetic and apostolic writings. But we do not doubt that the prophetic and apostolic writings are those which the church of God is accustomed, for that reason, to call by the name of the canonical books, because, knowing with certainty that these books are θεόπνευστος [God-breathed] (2 Tim. 3:16),Continue reading “Reading CCR: Can’t Stop This (§I.iii)”

God speaks in the writings of the prophets and apostles. Although God has made himself and his eternal power and deity known—neither meagerly nor obscurely—to men of all the earth by means of those things which he has made, so that everyone who does not glorify God might be without excuse, nevertheless, we know thatContinue reading “Reading CCR: Prove it (§I.ii).”

We recently had a new driveway poured at our house. Of course, this meant getting rid of the old one first, which we assumed would be a bit of a task. As it happened, however, a mini-forklift made short work of it, leveraging great chunks of cement out of their resting places and, in aContinue reading “Reading CCR: Laying a Double Foundation (§I.i)”

Before speaking in public, you always want to clear your throat, so that you can breathe easier, project further, and speak more clearly. In the spirit of throat clearing, this post is meant to introduce “Reading CCF.” The idea is this: I’ve been working for some months on a translation of Jerome Zanchi‘s De religioneContinue reading “Reading CCR: Clearing the Throat”