1. Hamilton writes lucidly. He has that rare gift of walking the tightrope between the academy and the church, being able to communicate to both groups in the same book.
  2. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  3. False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.
  4. The Word of the Lord is sure. The enemy is defeated. Salvation is waiting for you.
  5. God is often hidden in history, even as we make it now, but He is always manifest where He has promised to be.
  6. Edward's goal of teaching his people to know the scriptures and to believe that their salvation depended on Christ is also essential for us today.
  7. Confession is not another ecclesiastical bludgeon but is instead a gift. There we can tell the truth about ourselves, knowing that Christ has only mercy for us in response.
  8. Luther had a living Word from God intended to land squarely among sinners.
  9. The language of faith speaks promise and persecution, hope and trial, victory and pain. The language of the world may well speak the former, but rarely the latter.
  10. Mephibosheth’s story is a living parable of the gospel. It reeks of redemption, demonstrating precisely what Christ does for even the chiefest of sinners.
  11. An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.
  12. Aquinas would craft a systematic theology that did with the matter of faith what Aristotle had done with the natural world.