This Was The Life

R. Scott Clark

on February 18, 2014 | 8 Comments

As a boy I got up early in order to watch cartoons on Saturdays. I did the same on Sundays but back then, in the mid-60s, television on Sundays was a little different than it was on Saturdays. First there was a . . . Continue reading →

The Robe Then And Now: An Indicator Of Where We Are

R. Scott Clark

on February 9, 2014 | 7 Comments

I happened across The Robe, the other day. I had never seen it. It was interesting to see how the Christian faith was portrayed to the world in 1953 in CinemaScope and how the film with its new technology was received. It . . . Continue reading →

Marsden On Anti-Establishmentarian Christianity In The Academy

R. Scott Clark

on February 4, 2014

Hollinger speaks for many secularists in the academy, and we can learn from his perceptions and concerns. He is correct that establishmentarian Christianity has difficulty providing social and political equity in the presence of demographic diversification. So the best response is to . . . Continue reading →

Doctrinal Precision: Too Great A Price For The Worldview?

R. Scott Clark

on January 27, 2014

Most worldview champions would probably argue doctrine does matter to one’s worldview. But, if this is the case, then how Catholics, Protestants, and Eastern Orthodox, much less Lutherans, Calvinists, and Pentecostals, share a worldview is unclear. At best, it seems contemporary evangelicals . . . Continue reading →

A Cross And A Twofold Kingdom (2)

R. Scott Clark

on January 13, 2014 | 1 Comment

In Part 1 I sketched the history and current legal status of the Mt Soledad Cross and I indicated some ambivalence about that use of the cross. On the one hand, it seems clear that some opposition to the cross is less . . . Continue reading →

A Cross And The Twofold Kingdom

R. Scott Clark

on December 27, 2013 | 5 Comments

The cross atop Mt Soledad, in LaJolla has been in place since 1954 but it has been the subject of controversy and continuous and tortuous legal wrangling since at least 1989, when two atheists and the “Society of Separationists” sued in federal court . . . Continue reading →

Economics, Trust, Imputation, and Worth (Updated)

R. Scott Clark

on November 27, 2013 | 12 Comments

Shocking as it may be, courses in medieval history and theology do not always have immediate relevance to late modern society. There is a theme in medieval history and theology, however, that does illumine what is happening to the global economy. Since . . . Continue reading →

Helm: Transformationalism Has Status Of A Private Opinion

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on November 5, 2013 | 2 Comments

In the dust raised by the current renewed appreciation of the Reformed doctrine of the two kingdoms, through the work of David Van Drunen and others, it is sometimes asked, in adopting the doctrine of the two kingdoms, what becomes of the . . . Continue reading →

Political Pluralism And Public Prayer

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on October 22, 2013 | 1 Comment

When we allow evangelicals to pray as evangelicals, Catholics to pray as Catholics, Muslims to pray as Muslims, Jews to pray as Jews, we are not undermining political pluralism in our democracy, we’re upholding it. That’s why these prayers are not an . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: The Law And The Bible

R. Scott Clark

on October 14, 2013

There’s no question whether Christ is Lord over every square inch. There are, however, many important and difficult questions to be discussed over how Christ exercises his Lordship over all things. Office Hours talks with David VanDrunen about his new book, The Law and the Bible, which . . . Continue reading →

Constantine’s Complexity

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on October 8, 2013 | 2 Comments

Constantine lived his entire life within the imperial court, which he saw as the central institution of Roman life. He believed that the emperor’s job was to defend the empire from external foes while creating a more just and ordered society for . . . Continue reading →

Things That Don’t Help The 2K Discussion (Updated)

R. Scott Clark

on September 30, 2013 | 39 Comments

R. C. Sproul, Jr published a post on Thursday 26 September answering the question, “What is 2k Theology?” (HT: David Murray). It gets some things right, some of what it says is a matter of opinion and debate, and some of what . . . Continue reading →

Kim Riddlebarger On Christ, Culture, and 2K: In The Land Of Nod

R. Scott Clark

on September 23, 2013 | 5 Comments

Kim Riddlebarger, Senior Pastor of Christ Reformed Church (Anaheim, California) has begun a series of lectures on Christ and culture, two kingdoms, and church and state, vocation, and eschatology as part of the Christ URC Fright Night Academy series of lectures. If . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: The Experience Economy

R. Scott Clark

on September 23, 2013

In the medieval and Reformation periods the West had an agrarian economy. In the Modern period we had an industrial-manufacturing economy. By the 1980s we had a service economy. Today, according to Jim Gilmore and Joe Pine (Strategic Horizons LLP), we live . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 40: Christ, Culture, And Confession

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on September 22, 2013 | 31 Comments

We confess that Christ is Lord but what does that entail for the way Christians relate to the broader culture? Are we Christians because the culture is Christian? Do Christians separate themselves completely from the culture? Are we called to transform the . . . Continue reading →

Variety Of Reformed Views On Mediatorial Kingship

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on September 18, 2013

Gillespie’s view of Christ’s kingship in relation to the nations is extensively set out in the pamphlets he wrote an answer to the publications of the Rev. Thomas Coleman, an Assembly commissioner and rector of St. Peter’s Church, Cornhill, in London. Coleman . . . Continue reading →

The Inherent Goodness Of Work

R. Scott Clark

on September 14, 2013 | 6 Comments

One of the casualties of the West’s cultural shift from Christian theism to Deism, and from that to late modern subjectivism (and neo-paganism) is the death of the Christian work ethic. The act of work has been emptied of its intrinsic value. . . . Continue reading →

Heroes, Villains, And Pretty Packages

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on September 12, 2013

The dead, in other words, are people too. Scoring points on their failings does not seem to be particularly charitable or self-interested (since one day we won’t be around to defend ourselves or the limitations of our historical moment). It is not . . . Continue reading →

Reformed Is A Confession More Than A Culture

R. Scott Clark

on September 3, 2013 | 2 Comments

These arguments often come down to definitions. If we define culture as the sum of a series of factors including language, a web of relationships (family, community), that shapes the way we think about food, clothing, and work then culture is one . . . Continue reading →

There Is A Christian Worldview

R. Scott Clark

on August 20, 2013 | 7 Comments

Carl Trueman has waded into the swamp that is the current discussion of transformationalism. In today’s post at Ref21 he clarifies his earlier post. He’s been raising some of the same questions that Darryl Hart and others have been raising for some . . . Continue reading →

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