In this series we have been considering Christian eschatology, i.e., what should we think about the last days, about the relations between heaven and earth, and how that informs how we think about and live the Christian life between the ascension and return of Christ. The first part of the series was a survey of what Scripture says and what Christians believe about eschatology and the second half has been a survey of 1st Peter. In this episode I want to look at a particular case to see how what we think about eschatology affects the rest of our doctrine and our practice. The case arises in my own federation of churches, the United Reformed Churches in North America. Within the last two weeks or so it has been asserted by some, in a letter to a congregation, that the doctrine of cultural transformation is a matter of Reformed orthodoxy and that anyone who dissents from what this letter describes as the “Kuyperian” tradition is “outside” of Reformed orthodoxy. This assertion deserves some attention.
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- Resources On The Twofold Kingdom
- Resources On The Reformation Solas
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- Notes On Calvin’s Doctrine That Justification Sola Fide Is The Principal Axis Of The Christian Religion
- What is the Article of the Standing or Falling of the Church?
- John Murray: Justification Is Still The Article Of The Standing Or Falling Of The Church
- God’s Twofold Kingdom in Belgic Confession Art. 36
- Calvin On The Twofold Kingdom
- Cultural Transformation Is Not The Article Of The Standing Or Falling Of The Church (But Justification Is)
- Another Way The Reformed Confessions Can Help Us If We Let Them
- The Reformed Rejected Both World-flight And Earthly Golden Ages
- Bratt, James D. Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013.
- Kuyper, Abraham, and James D Bratt. Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1998.
- Kuyper, Abraham. Calvinism : Six Stone Foundation Lectures. L. P. Stone Lectures, 1898. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1943.
- Wood, John Halsey. Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper’s Struggle for a Free Church in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Heslam, Peter S. Creating a Christian Worldview: Abraham Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1998.
- Audio: With New Geneva On Reformed Amillennialism (1)
- With The New Geneva Podcast On Amillennialism (Part 2)
- Interview with Kim re Amillennialism
- A Case for A-millennialism Available on Kindle
- Kim Riddelbarger, A Case for Amillennialism
- Kim Riddelbarger, The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth About the Antichrist
- Dennis Johnson, Triumph of the Lamb: A Commentary on Revelation
- Resources On Theonomy And Reconstructionism
- Office Hours: What the Bible Actually Says About the End Times
- Whose Kingdom, Which King, And Why Do The Nations Rage?
- We Are Not Polishing Brass On A Sinking Ship
- Heidelberg 50: Christ Reigns Now (1)
- Heidelberg 50: Christ Reigns Now (2)
- Christ Ascended, Christ Rules
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Lee – “1911”? The swiss rifle?
Lee, never mind. I now realize you were referring to the 1911 Colt .45 ACP.
Dr. Clark: Would you say that neo-Kuyperianism is closely aligned with post-millennialism?
Bob,
It has been argued that Kuyper and the Kuyperians were essentially post-mil but they identified strongly as Amil. Insofar as they expected transformation of the culture prior to Christ’s return, they look and sound a lot like post-mils.
We were in the CRC from ’77 to ’91. Reformed Journal at the time and Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism were part of the path to where I am now. Transformationalism was “in the air”, everywhere. Looking back…
Carl Truman made a comment a while back, likely on Mortification of Spin, He said something to the effect that the usual picture of the kingdom of God desired state on earth the transformationalists put forward looks like what you would expect from upper middle class white Grand Rapidians. That comment crystallized my unease with the transformationalists. They would make a world comfortable for them, but not necessarily for me. “Art galleries and concert halls for the glory of God, but they would not have anyone who knows how to stake a 1911 front sight.” is how I usually think of it.
This entire series has been very helpful. I am discovering that much of my own political thought has been greatly influenced by my Anabaptistic, American roots. It is no surprise that when I came to faith, I filtered my Christian views through my prior position. As I now come to more fully understand the New Testament and the Reformed confessions, I find that there are some rotten wood that must be carved out and some “de-immanentizing” to do. Thank you for so clearly addressing these issues.