Author Archives: R. Scott Clark

About R. Scott Clark

R. Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. Read more» He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

They Aren't Really Addressing the Issue Yet-updated

by on July 29, 2008 | 17 Comments

Lee surveys some responses to this discussion about how Reformed folk should relate to contemporary evangelicalism. None of these responses really gets to the issue of definition. There’s a great body of secondary lit (and this list is very selective and omits some . . . Continue reading →

Lutheran or Reformed? You Make the Call!

by on July 28, 2008 | 5 Comments

This is why so much depends on the benefit of justification, and it is rightly denominated the article on which the church either stands or falls. For the fundamental question that arises in this connection is this: What is the way that . . . Continue reading →

Are Reformed "Evangelical" or "Evangelicals"?

by on July 26, 2008 | 20 Comments

Lee Irons raises the question of the relations between Reformed Christians and American evangelicals.  Much of this discussion comes down to definitions and I don’t recall that Lee offered a definition. In the immortal words of President Nixon, ” let me say . . . Continue reading →

Abraham, Moses, and Baptism

by on July 21, 2008 | 23 Comments

I’m in the midst of an interesting discussion of baptism with a friend, who has Baptist convictions but who understands Reformed theology better than many Reformed folks. He is quite sympathetic to historic and confessional Reformed theology. For example, he affirms that . . . Continue reading →

Re-Publication of the Covenant of Works (3)

by on July 18, 2008 | 16 Comments

Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. It may be that you do not read the comments section. That’s probably wise. Here are some revised and expanded responses to some questions/objections 1. The doctrine of the republication of the covenant of . . . Continue reading →

Republication of the Covenant of Works (2)

by on July 17, 2008 | 20 Comments

re-post from May 07. Part 1 is here. — As a follow up to the post of 16 January of this year. We’re discussing the doctrine of the “republication” of the covenant of works at the Puritanboard. Kevin asked about a quotation . . . Continue reading →

Re-Publication of the Covenant of Works (1)

by on July 16, 2008 | 25 Comments

I’m so committed to the doctrine of republication that I’m republishing a series of posts from the old HB from Jan ’07 beginning with this one. — As Mike Horton acknowledges in his recent work on covenant theology, one of the more . . . Continue reading →