Except Jeff Waddington (and the author of a certain forthcoming book that the author keeps tediously flogging).
July 2008 Archive
Recovering the Reformed Confession: Available Now
It’s available now from The Bookstore at WSC. Here’s a sample chapter. Early comment on Recovering the Reformed Confession: At a time when “all that is solid melts in the air” and distinct colors fade to gray, R. Scott Clark reminds us . . . Continue reading →
On Olevianus, Calvin, History, and Union: Points 5 and 6–updated
Part 2 is here. In this response I focus only on Lane’s points 5 and 6, because those are ones about which I’m most concerned.
Response to Lane's Review Pt 2 – updated
Part 1 of the response is here. Lane’s review is here. Eight responses to his five questions and then I have to get back to work.
A Review of Caspar Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant- Updated
Here’s a talk on Olevianus that I gave at Christ Reformed (URC) Anaheim. At Green Baggins. I’m glad that Lane took the time to read the book and that he found it helpful. He asks some important questions. By way of preface, . . . Continue reading →
Reformed and Evangelical Redux
Josh writes to ask how confessionally Reformed Christians should relate to contemporary (as distinct from it’s use as a synonym of “historic, confessional Protestant”) evangelicals?
And Now for Something Completely Different
A Jetpack that works. It’s just a teensy bit pricey right now.
They Aren't Really Addressing the Issue Yet-updated
Lee surveys some responses to this discussion about how Reformed folk should relate to contemporary evangelicalism. None of these responses really gets to the issue of definition. There’s a great body of secondary lit (and this list is very selective and omits some . . . Continue reading →
Or Maybe He Should Have Stayed Home?
The Fourth Circuit has upheld the ban of a minister from praying at city council meetings in Fredericksburg, VA. His crime? He prays in Jesus’ name. That’s a sectarian prayer. Yes, it is and it’s a good thing too.
Lutheran or Reformed? You Make the Call!
This is why so much depends on the benefit of justification, and it is rightly denominated the article on which the church either stands or falls. For the fundamental question that arises in this connection is this: What is the way that . . . Continue reading →
WSC Profs in ESV Study Bible
Some folks don’t think much of study bibles, but I like ’em. Maybe that’s because was Reformed folks who did the original study bible in Geneva.
Are Reformed "Evangelical" or "Evangelicals"?
Lee Irons raises the question of the relations between Reformed Christians and American evangelicals. Much of this discussion comes down to definitions and I don’t recall that Lee offered a definition. In the immortal words of President Nixon, ” let me say . . . Continue reading →
Recovering the Reformed Confession: The Interview
Thanks to the CTC guys for inviting me to play with them on the most recent CTC podcast to discuss Recovering the Reformed Confession. We had a wide-ranging discussion (because it’s a wide-ranging book) and it was good clean fun. This is . . . Continue reading →
Enns to Leave WTS/PA
Info here.
Why the Focus on the Confessions?
Re-post from Jan 07 from the old HB:—Nancy and “William Twisse” (the first prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly lives!) have both written to the HB to ask why it focuses so much on the Reformed confessions. Nancy writes: I am new to . . . Continue reading →
Abraham, Moses, and Baptism
I’m in the midst of an interesting discussion of baptism with a friend, who has Baptist convictions but who understands Reformed theology better than many Reformed folks. He is quite sympathetic to historic and confessional Reformed theology. For example, he affirms that . . . Continue reading →
Slight Change in Policy
Since the end of term in June I found myself posting links like a madman and I realized that I spending too much time providing links.
WCF in Tagalog
Thanks to Nollie!
Vos on the Historical Reliability of Scripture
Thanks to Wayne Sparkman at the PCA Historical Society for posting an essay by the redoubtable Geerhardus Vos that is as timely today as it was when it first appeared in 1905: “The Christian Faith and the Truthfulness of Bible History,” Princeton Theological Review . . . Continue reading →
Re-Publication of the Covenant of Works (3)
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. It may be that you do not read the comments section. That’s probably wise. Here are some revised and expanded responses to some questions/objections 1. The doctrine of the republication of the covenant of . . . Continue reading →