Today was day one with Dr. Carl Trueman. What a lecturer! Besides the cool English accent he did three 50-minute sessions without looking at his notes. Either that or he pulled the wool over our eyes. He lectured on the whole idea of a "forerunner," showing both continuities and discontinuities between the "medieval" and "reformation" ages. Moral of the story: don't read your Reformed dogmatics back into a different theological and social world.

Tomorrow we will be dealing with the doctrine of justification in Holcott, Bradwardine, von Staupitz, and Biel from Heiko Oberman's Forerunners of the Reformation, as well as Martin Luther's, Heidelberg Disputation.

I will also be preaching from 12:55–1:40 in Chapel on Genesis 28:10–22 and Jacob's So-Called Ladder."