Darryl Hart is now writing at the Old Life Theological Society. This is a must-add to your feed/blog reader. Bookmark it. Live it. Love it.
Contemporary Evangelicalism
More on Scot McKnight's Critique of the Neo-Reformed
The i-Monk has weighed in. He writes: No, Scot is right, and it didn’t take a seminary professor to see it. Dress codes. Young earth creationism. Gothardite approaches to rules. Authoritarianism. Movies are evil and away we go. Find me a Rook . . . Continue reading →
Scot McKnight and the "Neo-Reformed"
The reaction of the evangelical latitudinarians against the Young, Restless, and Reformed guys continues. Scot McKnight has been blogging about his blurb for N. T. Wright’s latest book. Justin Taylor has responded. This has been a topic on the HB before. One . . . Continue reading →
LCMS Bureaucrats to Sue Issues Etc?
It’s possible according to Extreme Theology (HT: Kim Riddlebarger)
When Community Isn't
The contemporary use of the word “community” has troubled me for some time. I couldn’t put my finger on it until today. It came to me during a drive across the the vast wasteland that is Nevada.
Hyping the Great Commission
In 1995 Bill Bright published a volume on “the coming revival.” It summarized what he had been saying for years. If we would only fast and pray and follow the right methods, a revival would come. In other instances, however, he periodically . . . Continue reading →
A Reformed Guy Goes to Saddleback
No, he’s not a crypto-Calvinist but he was a stranger in a strange land.
Open Theism and Socinianism
Martin explains the connection.
Risking the Truth
Martin Downes is one of my favorite writers. He writes daily at Against Heresies. Sometime back he did a series of interviews with several theologians/historians. That collection, Risking the Truth, is to appear this March. It features interviews with Mark Dever, Carl Trueman, . . . Continue reading →
Settled and Reformed: How Many Points?
Philip, in the combox at Gene Vieth’s blog, reminded me to re-post the link to a terrific essay by Richard Muller on what defines the adjective “Reformed.”
What Richard John Neuhaus Means to Me
A number of evangelical and socially conservative blogs and publications are marking the death (not “passing” but that’s another post) yesterday of Richard John Neuhaus at age 72. It is not remarkable that social conservatives are weeping today. After a career as . . . Continue reading →
Stealing a Tradition and Calling it Your Own
Those who upset with my “churchless evangelicals” series might want to read this from Zrim. They might also consider who or what gets to define the adjective “Reformed.”
Laws Hard and Soft
They’re both brutalizing.
Five Issues with the Inaugural Invocation
1. That is exists. I realize that it is tradition, but so what? Oddly, many of the same people who inveigh against a “state church” will be thrilled that “one of our guys” gets to pray the invocation. Well, Rick isn’t exactly one . . . Continue reading →
Audio: Darryl Hart on "Deconstructing Evangelicalism"
The fellows at CTC provide an excellent interview with WSC’s own Darryl Hart on the nature and deconstruction of contemporary evangelicalism and the differences between evangelicalism and Reformed theology, piety, and practice. Is it possible that evangelical-ism doesn’t really exist? It’s a . . . Continue reading →
Horton: Quitting Church
At WSC
Lane Reviews "Reforming or Conforming"
At GB
Everybody Does It
Speaking in tongues, that is. G. Vos noted almost a century ago that ecstatic religious speech is not a uniquely Christian phenomenon. Here an AOG writer recognizes the same thing. (HT: Daily Scroll) What does it mean? It means that glossolalia is . . . Continue reading →
The Virus of the Virtual Church
Andy explains. All I can say is that it’s a good thing we don’t have a virtual Savior with a virtual humanity who virtually sympathizes with us and virtually intercedes for us.
And Number 39, Graham Kendrick
Quentin Letts, columnist for the UK’s Daily Mail, has published a list of 50 People Who Ruined Britain. (HT: Nick Mackison). ___ Happy-cr*ppy hymns are a pestilence. They demean adult worship, dragging it to a level even lower than that of Mrs . . . Continue reading →