Terry Teachout wonders.
2008 Archive
The Law Before the Fall
Wes White explains.
A New "Evangelical" Means of Grace?
It’s Bibleman. “It’s all just fun and games until someone loses eternity.” That’s what I always say. Remember, “Only Jesus is a true superhero.”
Public Ownership of the Means of (Oil) Production?
Yikes!
Issues Etc is Coming Back
In St Louis and on the Web. Kim has the story.
The Evangelical/Emergent Dance of Death
Martin has it.
Harmless Hymns?
Maybe not says Andrew Compton. Maybe our forefathers had a good idea when they said that the law of God (2nd commandment) requires that we speak to God in worship using only his word and principally the psalms?
Carl Reviews Olson on Arminianism
Here
Joe Frazier and the Holiness of God
More from the cruel TR man.
Kelly Clarkson: Opiate of the Masses?
Or just an opiate for the mass? A self-described “balding, middle-aged” Carl Trueman weighs in.
More On the Proposed Revision to the PCUSA Translation of the Heidelberg Catechism
Thanks to Justin Taylor for pointing me to Robert Gagnon’s brief essay here. On one level the argument isn’t really about fidelity to the original German and Latin texts but about the meaning of the proof texts cited in HC Q. 87, . . . Continue reading →
William Evans Critiques Enns
This is an interesting review surveying seven problems with I&I.
So You Wanna Be a 70s DJ?
You can do it online here.
Fish: No Politics in the Classroom
I wonder if Stanley Fish is defining “politics” very narrowly as “party politics”? For a fellow who wrote, There is No Text in This Class he seems pretty naive about what happens to cultural conservatives in contemporary academia. Does ISI exist for nothing? . . . Continue reading →
Kline and Enns
Lane has helpful clarification here.
Hodge on Rom 7
We think of Charles Hodge as stuffy systematician but he was an astute and careful reader of Scripture. His commentary on Romans is still useful. Wes White has an appreciation here.
The HB on Facebook
I’m not sure what it does other than to alert folks to the existence of the HB but if you’re on FB then you’re welcome to go to the HB page on FB and join the fun.
New Issue of Semper Reformanda Coming Out
Next week. Edited by Charles Brown and Bill Chellis (in alphabetical order) SR is a helpfully provocative journal from folks generally, but not exclusively, in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America.
We're All Puritans
I’m more and more convinced that we should stop talking about “Puritans” as if they were some distinct species of Reformed theology. They were English and Scots Reformed theologians and pastors. Shane Lems has more good stuff that illustrates that confessional Reformed . . . Continue reading →
More on Computers in the Classroom
This has been a topic of discussion previously on the HB: Part 1 Part 2 Thanks to the good offices of our Academic Dean, Dennis Johnson, I see that the latest news on this front is from The Chronicles of Higher Education . . . Continue reading →