Heidelcast 65: Science!

Heidelcast

on March 23, 2014 | 8 Comments

We’re talking a break from the series on nomism and antinomianism to talk about science. Not long ago there was a debate between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ken Ham the Creationist Guy that garnered a considerable amount of attention. Why did . . . Continue reading →

Submitting To Scripture

R. Scott Clark

on March 23, 2014

Being a complementarian woman in an egalitarian world is wildly unpopular; it can also be perceived as decidedly ignorant. Some readers may sympathize with my hope for reprieve. And while the word has fallen out of favor with some, I know no . . . Continue reading →

Muller On Reformed Orthodoxy On Double Procession And The Filioque

R. Scott Clark

on March 22, 2014 | 9 Comments

2. The demonstration of the filioque: “double procession.” The traditionally Western trinitarian concept of the double procession of the Holy Spirit was consistently upheld by the Reformers and argued with some vigor against the Greek Orthodox view. The Reformed exegetes, moreover, understood . . . Continue reading →

The Sermon On The Mount In The First Use

R. Scott Clark

on March 22, 2014 | 4 Comments

So it is with the whole of the discourse. The new law of the Sermon on the Mount, in itself, can only produce despair. Strange indeed is the complacency with which modern men can say that the Golden Rule and the high . . . Continue reading →

School Or Re-Education Camp?

R. Scott Clark

on March 22, 2014 | 7 Comments

Two Men And An iPad = Fun

R. Scott Clark

on March 21, 2014 | 7 Comments

Secularization Interrupted

R. Scott Clark

on March 20, 2014

it was becoming increasingly clear that at least on the street, the veneer of Christianity was peeling away to reveal a canvas of various native (pre-Christian) folk paganisms. As Cambridge historian Patrick Collinson concludes, the Reformation was an “episode of re-Christianization or . . . Continue reading →

Messages To Millennials (3): Work

R. Scott Clark

on March 19, 2014 | 10 Comments

In part 2 we looked at the way, according to a recent Pew Study, Millennials relate to the visible, institutional church. The third major topic is work. As Bradford Wilcox summarizes the results of the study he notes that 80% of those . . . Continue reading →

Maturing The Sinner’s Prayer

R. Scott Clark

on March 19, 2014

If potential converts (children or adults) are so unfamiliar with basic Bible doctrine that they can understand nothing more than “asking Jesus into their heart,” they probably should wait to make a commitment, until they understand the gravity of sin, and Christ’s . . . Continue reading →

The Reformed Confession Grows In Milan

R. Scott Clark

on March 18, 2014 | 4 Comments

Renewed interest in the Reformed confession is not a uniquely American phenomenon. There are, of course, large confessional Reformed/Presbyterian bodies in South Korea, Nigeria, The (Democratic Republic of the) Congo, and elsewhere. We where we might not expect to find a Reformed . . . Continue reading →

Messages To Millennials (2): Church

R. Scott Clark

on March 18, 2014 | 4 Comments

In part 1 we looked at the some of the challenges Millennials face relative to marriage. According to the recent Pew Study, Millennials identify with organized religion at a lower rate than previous generations. To quote Billy Joel, they “didn’t start the . . . Continue reading →

Messages To Millennials (1): Marriage

R. Scott Clark

on March 17, 2014 | 29 Comments

On March 7, 2014, the Pew Research Center published the results of a new Survey: Millennials in Adulthood. Bradford Wilcox has a summary in the NRO. According to the study, Millennials have become disconnected from some basic institutions: marriage, church, and work—though not . . . Continue reading →

The Irony Of Denying Divine Impassibility: A Greek God

R. Scott Clark

on March 17, 2014 | 6 Comments

This is why most of theologians who espouse a suffering God intentionally advocate a panentheistic notion of God”that is, that while God is potentially more than the cosmos, the cosmos is constitutive of His very being. (Those theologians who espouse a suffering . . . Continue reading →

A Conspiracy Of Silence

R. Scott Clark

on March 16, 2014 | 2 Comments

Yet the leaders of the “young, restless, and reformed” have not typically allowed that concern to curtail their comments in the past. Many of them have been outspoken about the teaching of Joel Osteen, for example. In their early days, when the . . . Continue reading →

Creator, Sustainer, Father (1)

R. Scott Clark

on March 15, 2014

One of the most basic impulses of the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment west has been to get rid of God. The Enlightenment brought a revolution. In Christian antiquity, God was and we were becoming. In Modernity (and late modernity) we are and God . . . Continue reading →

Ezra Levant Speaks Up For Free Speech

R. Scott Clark

on March 15, 2014 | 3 Comments

(HT: Legal Insurrection)

What The Prophets Knew

R. Scott Clark

on March 15, 2014

In taking the comfort of the prophetic promises to our hearts we do not, perhaps, always realize what after the tempests and tumults, in the brief seasons of clear shining which God interposed, such relief must have meant to the prophets themselves. . . . Continue reading →

Reformed Basics On Dichotomy And Trichotomy

R. Scott Clark

on March 14, 2014 | 4 Comments

The question came via Twitter yesterday asking what trichotomy is, from where it comes, and how Reformed theology speaks about this issue. I couldn’t do any better than Louis Berkhof (1873–1957). Born in the Netherlands, he moved to the USA as a . . . Continue reading →

If Great Grandpa Could Talk To You Now

R. Scott Clark

on March 13, 2014 | 8 Comments

Missed It By That Much

R. Scott Clark

on March 13, 2014

That depiction in the new Cosmos matches the standard textbook story of Bruno, but it is misleading and in some ways downright wrong. For starters, Bruno was not the first to link the idea of infinite space with the infinite glory of . . . Continue reading →

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