Yikes! Students, what’s wrong with this headline? “Who Would Jesus Smack Down?” Okay. Pencils down. What’s the correct answer?
2009 Archive
Beyond Niebuhr on Christ and Culture
Here’s a review of H. Richard Niebuhr’s classic, Christ and Culture by WSC student. C&C is disappointing. It’s ham-fisted. It lacks historical nuance and it’s missing a crucial category. It’s been enormously influential among evangelicals and mainliners, however, so it’s important to know . . . Continue reading →
URC Church Plant in Portland Metro
They’re in West Linn, OR in the Southeast suburbs of Portland. The pastor is WSC alumnus Dan McManigal.
What Richard John Neuhaus Means to Me
A number of evangelical and socially conservative blogs and publications are marking the death (not “passing” but that’s another post) yesterday of Richard John Neuhaus at age 72. It is not remarkable that social conservatives are weeping today. After a career as . . . Continue reading →
What Richard John Neuhaus Means to Me
A number of evangelical and socially conservative blogs and publications are marking the death (not “passing” but that’s another post) yesterday of Richard John Neuhaus at age 72. It is not remarkable that social conservatives are weeping today. After a career as . . . Continue reading →
A Founding Father on the Two Kingdoms
Thanks to Brannan for this.
Live Blogging Calvin's Legacy
At this writing the “Calvin’s Legacy” conference is 8 days, 2 hours and some away. If you can’t make it to this year’s conference (and we’re very close to being sold out so, if you’re planning to register, act quickly) you can . . . Continue reading →
Tall Skinny Kiwi Reads Reforming or Conforming
Martin has the links.
The Old Perspective on Paul
Most modern NT study of Paul tends to be myopic. The “history of exegesis” tends to go back to the 1970s and occasionally a little farther. This isn’t my assessment, it’s Tom Wright’s. I agree with him. I tried recently to do . . . Continue reading →
Connect with WSC on Facebook
Here.
The FV as QIRC (pt 2)
Reuben decodes it all very nicely at The Outhouse.
Calvin on the Free Offer
Yes, that’s right, Calvin said “offer” (not demand) as in “free” or “well-meant” offer of the gospel. Update 7 Jan 09: For more on this question see ” Janus, the Well-Meant Offer of the Gospel, and Westminster Theology,” in David VanDrunen, ed. The . . . Continue reading →
Westminster Seminary California Winter '09
Some pics from early Jan 09.
When Middle Class Evangelicals "Engage" the Culture
Carl’s about had enough. Sounds like he might be getting a Clint-Eastwood-esque shotgun any day now. In place of the evangelical appropriation of “transformationalism,” wanna try a really radical approach? How about two-kingdoms? Here’s another. And another. And another.
Willimon Reviews Ehrman on Theodicy
In the Christian Century (HT: Mike Horton). Willimon: “This book seems an awful lot of fuss to reach so banal a destination.”
Calvin Audio Links
Including Bob Godfrey, who, as a boy, remembers hearing Calvin preach. Thanks to Martin for gathering these together.
Christ in a Post-Christian World
That’s theme for 2009 on the White Horse Inn. Zrim gets us started on it over at the Outhouse.
Reuben is Reading RRC
At the Confessional Outhouse.
Not By Anything Wrought in Us or By Us
John Brown of Wamphray understood the WCF and he anticipated Tom Wright and co.
On Writing Well
At Justin Taylor’s BTW.