Update: GAFCON responds Nov 10, 2009 (HT: David Alenskis) Indeed there was. Eric Landry at the WHI Blog has nice post addressing the recent decision by the Vatican (specifically the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith) to provide a way for Anglicans . . . Continue reading →
Author Archives: R. Scott Clark
Follow Westminster Seminary California on Twitter
You can follow WSC on Twitter. I know it’s fashionable to dislike Twitter but I like it. It’s a lot less annoying than Facebook. No one asks me to respond to silly games about farm animals (I figured out how to make . . . Continue reading →
WSC Graduate Defends Oxford DPhil on Barth
Congratulations to Westminster Seminary California (’04) alumnus and sometime lecturer in Historical Theology at WSC, Ryan Glomsrud (MA, Historical Theology), on the successful completion and defense of his Oxford DPhil thesis on Karl Barth. Here’s a précis: Ryan D. Glomsrud, Karl Barth Between Pietism & Orthodoxy: . . . Continue reading →
Audio: Godfrey on the "Reformation of Worry"
Here’s a 2006 chapel talk by our own Bob Godfrey given in the chapel of the Master’s College.
New Office Hours: David VanDrunen on Bioethics and the Christian Life
There’s an Office Hours special today with Dr David VanDrunen, Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics. It’s available now online and on iTunes. He has a new book just out Bioethics and the Christian Life. David has written . . . Continue reading →
The Doctor on True, Evangelical Ecumenism
Martin has re-posted extracts from Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ 1966 address which marked a turning point in British evangelicalism and which is worth considering again. Update 19 October, 2009: David posts some helpful comments on the Doctor’s ecclesiology.
New in Print: Brian Lee on Cocceius
There are few subjects in historical theology about whom more has been written on the basis of less research than Johannes Cocceius (1603-1669). He has been alternately hailed as the “founder” of covenant theology and the corrupter of it. Of course, both . . . Continue reading →
What Does Semper Reformanda Actually Mean?
Mike Horton gives a terrific explanation at the Ligonier blog. Here’s a bit: “Some people today leave out the “Reformed” part or at least interpret it as “reformed” (little “r”): the church is “always being reformed according to the Word of God.” . . . Continue reading →
Heidelberg 2010 Info Online
Reformation2Germany is attempting to bring confessional Reformed Christianity back to one of its original seedbeds (lit. seminaries), Heidelberg. To that end they’re holding a series of conferences beginning in 2010. Speakers include Carl Trueman and Derek Thomas. Info here.
Packer’s Involvement in ECT Didn’t "Just Happen"
It had a precedent that goes back to 1970. Many American evangelicals were caught by surprise by J I Packer’s involvement with and defense of Evangelicals and Catholics Together. The first ECT was vague, misleading, and even gobsmacking. The second was, for . . . Continue reading →
Balancing Preaching with Other Aspects of Pastoral Ministry
Since I was critical of Tim’s appeal to triperspectivalism in his analysis of the relationship between Reformed Christianity and broad evangelicalism it seems fair to note where Tim says something that is more helpful. Today’s post on his new blog discusses how . . . Continue reading →
When Easy-Believism Becomes Hard
Darryl explains.
Online Resources on Infant-Baptism
In answer to a query on another post I put together a list of posts and other resources. For those working through the questions here are some HB posts and other resources that might help: Clark on Infant Baptism (That same web . . . Continue reading →
Why Do Some Reformed People Corrupt the Gospel of Grace?
Because it is our natural tendency to do so. It is our natural tendency to add works to grace as part of the way we are accepted by God because grace, being utterly free and unconditional to us sinners, seem so unlikely, . . . Continue reading →
Audio: Exposition of the Nine (Part 5): The Difference Between Works and Grace
On Arminius, Confessional Subscription, and the Limits of Tolerance
Jacob Arminius (d. 1609) thought of himself as Reformed. He wanted to be regarded as Reformed. He graduated from the seminary in Geneva. He studied with that stalwart of Reformed orthodoxy, Theodore Beza (d. 1605). He was a Reformed minister in good . . . Continue reading →
Peace (with Evangelicalism) in Our Time
It may be impossible to be a confessionalist Reformed critic of evangelicalism of even its more dubious elements such as Willow Creek (or the mega-church movement generally) and remain a “player” within evangelicalism. Being confessionally Reformed (i.e., in theology, piety, and practice) . . . Continue reading →
Audio: Martin Downes on Risking the Truth
The link is at Against Heresies. Martin is always worth hearing.
Who's the Radical?
Darryl replies to his Royal Dougness on allegedly “radical” two-kingdoms ethics. I particularly like most of the comment by Father Taciturn:
Horton Responds to More Caricatures By Wright
At the WHI blog.