Audio: With Rick Wiles On Reformation And The Creeds

R. Scott Clark

on July 29, 2015

I talked with Rick Wiles on Monday. The show is Trunews and it is heard on radio stations all over America, across the globe, and on the web at TruNews.com. We discussed the problem of the fracture of the church, how to . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Calvin And Voltaire

R. Scott Clark

on July 27, 2015

When most of us think about the history of Reformed theology, if we think about it at all, we tend to think first of Calvin and then we typically jump to Jonathan Edwards, then perhaps to Princeton and thence to our own . . . Continue reading →

The Shepherd Of Hermas Is A Dull Novel

R. Scott Clark

on July 24, 2015 | 2 Comments

Dr. Bunsen calls it “a good but dull novel,” and reminds us of a saying of Niebuhr (Bunsen’s master), that “he pitied the Athenian3 Christians for being obliged to hear it read in their assemblies.” —F. Crombie, “Introductory Note to the Pastor . . . Continue reading →

Jerome On Monepiscopacy: The Triumph Of Pragmatism Not Principle

R. Scott Clark

on July 16, 2015 | 2 Comments

The presbyter is the same as the bishop, and before parties had been raised up in religion by the provocations of Satan, the churches were governed by the Senate of the presbyters. But as each one sought to appropriate to himself those . . . Continue reading →

Identity Markers: Why Some Axioms Persist

R. Scott Clark

on July 15, 2015 | 1 Comment

Peter Berger has been an influential and important sociologist of religion for more than 50 years. He is presently Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. To review a . . . Continue reading →

Augustine On Justification, Salvation, And Assurance

R. Scott Clark

on May 19, 2015

Our predestination is not wrought in ourselves, but in secret with Him, in His foreknowledge. But we are called by the preaching of repentance. We are justified in the calling of mercy and fear of judgment. He feareth not judgment, who hath . . . Continue reading →

Fifth-Century Church: Instruments Were For Moses

R. Scott Clark

on May 19, 2015 | 2 Comments

Q: If songs were invented by unbelievers with a design of deceiving, and were appointed for those under the law, because of the childishness of their minds, why do they who have received the perfect instructions of grace, which are most contrary . . . Continue reading →

The Predicted Darkness Upon Us?

R. Scott Clark

on May 9, 2015 | 1 Comment

We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can’t read, write or calculate. We don’t have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and . . . Continue reading →

The Intoxicating Power Of Victimhood

R. Scott Clark

on March 19, 2015 | 7 Comments

“If this is feminism, it’s feminism hijacked by melodrama,” she writes. “The melodramatic imagination’s obsession with helpless victims and powerful predators is what’s shaping the conversation of the moment, to the detriment of those whose interests are supposedly being protected, namely students. . . . Continue reading →

Can You Help Me Find This Work?

R. Scott Clark

on March 13, 2015 | 12 Comments

Several years back I was alerted to the existence of this doctoral work. I have searched for it but without success. I had forgotten about it but was recently reminded of its existence. I realized that I should ask you on the chance . . . Continue reading →

The Didache Calls Abortion Murder

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on March 3, 2015 | 4 Comments

You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, you shall not murder a child by abortion . . . Continue reading →

I’m Shocked That You’re Shocked

R. Scott Clark

on February 28, 2015 | 21 Comments

Erskine College is in the news this morning for articulating the biblical and historic Christian position on human sexuality: “We believe the Bible teaches that monogamous marriage between a man and a woman is God’s intended design for humanity and that sexual . . . Continue reading →

Owen: The Least Dram Of Holiness Never Flowed Except From Christ Through The Gospel

R. Scott Clark

on February 22, 2015 | 2 Comments

1. This whole matter of sanctification and holiness is peculiarly joined with and limited unto the doctrine, truth, and grace of the gospel; for holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing, and realizing of the gospel in our souls. Hence it is . . . Continue reading →

Science Versus Groupthink

R. Scott Clark

on February 17, 2015 | 13 Comments

It’s become clear to me that it is not possible to undertake independent research in any area that touches upon climate change if you have to make your living as a professional scientist on government grant money or have to rely on . . . Continue reading →

Godfrey On The Crusades

R. Scott Clark

on February 12, 2015 | 9 Comments

Hodge: Justification At The Center

R. Scott Clark

on January 14, 2015

The Reformed churches have ever considered Christ and justification by faith in his merits, as the great centre of the Christian system. The Oxford Tract writers make the church the main point; the church as an ordinance for conveying life to all . . . Continue reading →

Davenant Not As Deviant?

R. Scott Clark

on January 4, 2015 | 4 Comments

Some of what Davenant writes is clearer than other parts. But it seems that a primary thought is that Christ died for the world in a universal sense, from which flows what are nowadays called the gifts of common grace, and warrant . . . Continue reading →

What Do We Mean When We Say “Holy Catholic Church”?

R. Scott Clark

on January 3, 2015 | 2 Comments

Clinton writes to ask what we mean when we say, in the Apostles’ Creed, “I believe a holy catholic church.” He reports that some of his friends will not read the Apostles’ Creed, the Athanasian Creed, or the Heidelberg Catechism because they . . . Continue reading →

A Seventh-Century Opinion On Every-Member Ministry

R. Scott Clark

on January 2, 2015 | 17 Comments

It does not befit a layman to dispute or teach publicly, thus claiming for himself authority to teach, but he should yield to the order appointed by the Lord, and to open his ears to those who have received the grace to . . . Continue reading →

A Brief History Of Christmas

R. Scott Clark

on December 24, 2014 | 4 Comments

CHRISTMAS The Feast of the Nativity of Christ was called in OE Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ; the first appearance of this term in extant writing dates to the 11th cent., and parallels Dutch Kerst-misse. (The Latin term Dies natalis lies . . . Continue reading →

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