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Author Archives: R. Scott Clark
Machen's Memo to Christians in the Mainline
“Get out.” If things were bad enough to warrant separation from the mainline in 1935 how much more do circumstances warrant separation? Has the PCUSA become more or less faithful to the Word and to the Westminster Standards since 1935? To ask . . . Continue reading →
Odds and Ends: CRT on Google and More
Thanks to Wes White for keeping us abreast of the Classic Reformed Theology available via Google Books. If the name Bernard DeMoor or the Leiden Synopsismeans anything to you then you’ll understand. Wes Bredenhof: Ways to Help Your Children Leave the Church. . . . Continue reading →
"Thus Think and Smoke Tobacco"
This is the refrain from a poem by Ralph Erskine. He anticipated the NTJ by two hundred fifty years. Erskine (d. 1752) was one of those who upheld the gospel against the moralists of his day and he was one of the . . . Continue reading →
Guy Waters Analyzes NTW's Reply to Piper
The American edition of the book is not out yet, but Guy Waters (and the fellows at Christ the Center) have the British edition and they have analyzed it carefully. As always Guy does an admirable job of stating the question, of . . . Continue reading →
The Wonder of Justification By Faith
Good, clear stuff from Wes White.
Ira Glass (This American Life) On Storytelling
Not that preachers are called to spin homely yarns but preaching is a kind of story telling. We have a narrative (the history of redemption) in which people must locate themselves and with which they need to learn to identify. Ira Glass . . . Continue reading →
Video: Selderhuis on Calvin
Last month Herman Selderhuis was in Orlando giving lectures on Calvin at RTS. You can see the video here. Thanks to LO for the video.
Mouw Reviews Muether's Bio of Van Til
Hey Mikey, He likes it! You can order your copy from The Bookstore at WSC.
Watch New WSC Video
It’s posted to the WSC Facebook page. The 11 minute video features Bob Godfrey, Mike Horton (among other faculty) and some notable WSC alumni.
Nunc Super Tunc
The title is Latin for “Now is superior to then.”1 It’s a shorthand way of getting at an attitude that is widespread among American Christians that whatever we think and do now is necessarily superior to anything that was thought and done . . . Continue reading →
How and Where Machen Spent his Parrothood
Of course there’s no such word as “Parrothood” properly but it get at what Machen said about his childhood education.
Spending, The Crisis, And Idols
In recent years there was a move to focus Reformed and evangelical piety on “The Idols of the Heart.” Of course as one of those who agrees entirely with Calvin’s dictum that after the fall the “perpetual disposition” of human beings is . . . Continue reading →
Could Instruments Be Idols?
re-posted from May 2007. In light of the discussion prompted by the brief snippet from Calvin on instruments this seems appropriate. — Friday, in the Medieval-Reformation course I gave a lecture on Calvin’s doctrine of worship during which a student asked about . . . Continue reading →
Blast From the Past: Cavett Interviews Updike and Cheever
Dick Cavett has a blog on the NYT site. He’s posted video of a 1981 interview with John Cheever and John Updike. Several things strike one about this interview.
Why Are You So Anxious?
One of the most valuable resources that I have found in the last 15 years is the Mars Hill Audio Journal (no connection to Mars Hill Church). Hosted by Ken Myers, each volume of the MHAJ is a collection of essays by . . . Continue reading →
Question to Podcast Listeners. Which is Better: Free Form or Scripted?
If a fellow were going to record a weekly podcast (not saying that he will but if) would a listener rather hear something extemporaneous or scripted? (all things being equal, that is).
Was the Reformation Necessary and Necessarily Grumpy?
Jason asks another provocative question at DRD. Clark responds:
MGK: Theonomy, Ethics, and Perspectivalism
At Matt’s Berit Olam.
Fesko Reviews Garcia and Billings on Calvin's Doctrine of Union
At Ordained Servant. Dick Gaffin replies. John Fesko is the new Academic Dean at WSC. He begins his duties on 1 July. John has recently published perhaps the most important single study of the doctrine of justification since the 19th century. He . . . Continue reading →