Just In Time For The Latest ESS Dustup: With Presbycast On The Athanasian Creed

R. Scott Clark

on August 6, 2021 | 1 Comment

Even as we were recording this episode last night a new round of controversy (on social media) arose over the orthodoxy of the doctrine of the so-called “eternal subordination of the Son” or the “eternal functional subordination of the Son” AKA “eternal . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 187: What Must A Christian Believe? (5): The Holy Trinity

Heidelcast

on July 26, 2021 | 7 Comments

The Heidelcast is back and better than ever, well, as mediocre as ever anyway. As I’m recording this it’s late July and I’m trying to finish the commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism. Something had to give way so I put the Heidelcast . . . Continue reading →

Your Favorite Apologist Does Not Define Christianity

by R. Scott Clark on June 12, 2021

Apologetics is an important, necessary discipline. Christians are called by Scripture to give a reason for our hope to everyone who asks (1 Pet 3:15). There is a long history of apologists, however, damaging Christian doctrine in order to defend the faith and laity are tempted to follow them. Continue reading →

The Eternally Begotten Son Is Consubstantial With the Father

R. Scott Clark

on June 2, 2021

The Son’s generation involves no priority or posteriority, and certainly no inferiority but designates order alone. If it did involve priority or posteriority of any kind, then the Son would be inferior to the Father. Previously, I emphasized that the Son is . . . Continue reading →

Gregory Of Nazianzus On The Deity Of The Holy Spirit And Against Analogies For The Trinity

R. Scott Clark

on May 24, 2021

XXVIII. This, then, is my position with regard to these things, and I hope it may be always my position, and that of whosoever is dear to me; to worship God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, Three . . . Continue reading →

Ufilas Or ESS?

R. Scott Clark

on May 22, 2021 | 1 Comment

…Allow me to share a few quotes. As you read, I want you to ask yourself where, in the history of the church these quotes are found? “Nobody denies that the Father is somehow greater than the Son, not because of another . . . Continue reading →

How The Athanasian Creed Can Help Contemporary Evangelical Theological Discourse

R. Scott Clark

on April 10, 2021 | 6 Comments

33. Equal to the Father, as touching his deity: and inferior to the Father as touching his humanity (Aequalis Patri secundum divinitatem: minor Patre secundum humanitatem)—Athanasian Creed. Yesterday, in our Reformed confessions course, we were considering Belgic Confession articles 18 and 19 . . . Continue reading →

How To Avoid Accidentally Becoming One Of Job’s Friends

R. Scott Clark

on April 2, 2021

During my treatment, two friends with cancer reached the end of the line, moving from experimental chemotherapy to palliative care, to dying, to death. It all happened so quickly. I was in remission, but for what? To wait around for this to . . . Continue reading →

Crisp: Edwards Was A Panentheist

R. Scott Clark

on December 30, 2020 | 2 Comments

…Such a picture of God’s relation to the creation is undoubtedly striking, combining as it does aspects of classical theism, theological aesthetics, panentheism, and the doctrines of continuous creation and occasionalism (about which, more presently). Far from being the product of some . . . Continue reading →

More On Edwards, Affections, Romanticism, And Pantheism

R. Scott Clark

on December 30, 2020 | 4 Comments

If there is a prevailing commonplace about the Romantics it is to associate them with a close and tender regard for nature. And it is true that the relating of human being to being generally considered was so central in their minds, . . . Continue reading →

Why Caution About Jonathan Edwards Is In Order

R. Scott Clark

on December 26, 2020 | 14 Comments

Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) is America’s most famous theologian and perhaps its most famous philosopher too. He is an important and influential figure and worth seeking to understand for those reasons alone. We should think about Edwards for other reasons, however, He is . . . Continue reading →

Trueman: Might You Be A Socinian And Not Know It?

R. Scott Clark

on November 21, 2020 | 4 Comments

Cut some of the leading evangelical writers of the last decades and they bleed Socinus—without even knowing his name. For example, Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology, the most widely read text of its kind in English-speaking conservative evangelical circles, rejects eternal generation of . . . Continue reading →

The Doctrine Of Providence And Your “Lived Experience”

by R. Scott Clark on November 7, 2020 1 Comment

The Christian doctrine of providence does not deny anyone’s “lived experience.” It explains it.

Classical Christian Theism Was Not Fabricated Out Of Thin Air

R. Scott Clark

on June 16, 2020

When trusted theologians reject the biblical doctrine of God that has been believed, confessed, and taught by every orthodox Christian in the history of the church, including Reformed proponents of the sola Scriptura principle, something has to be said. Classical Christian theism . . . Continue reading →

New Resource Page: On The Doctrine Of God

R. Scott Clark

on June 12, 2020 | 5 Comments

Those nineteenth-century Germans thought that the Reformed had deduced their whole theology, piety, and practice from their doctrine of predestination were wrong but the doctrine of God is at the headwaters of the Christian religion. Everything we say about everything else, method, . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 150: I AM That I AM (16): The Divine Decree

Heidelcast

on April 30, 2020

Congratulations to the Rev Mr Keith Giles of Belfast, NI, Rev. Mr. Richie Cronin of Cork, ROI, Miriam from Lancaster, PA, and Randy Bachman from Houston, TX. Their calls were featured episode 149 and for appearing on the Heidelcast they are each receiving a free copy of Baptism, Election, and the Covenant of Grace in the mail from the Heidelcast. Leave your question at (760) 618-1563 or send us a voice memo from your phone for our May call-in show. This is the 16th and last episode of the series on the doctrine of God, I AM that I AM and today we come to the biblical, Christian, and confessional Reformed doctrine of the divine decree. Earlier today, the Rev Dr Liam Golligher, Senior minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church, PCA, in Phila, PA wrote: Continue reading →

Heidelcast 147: I AM That I AM (15): God’s Sovereign Arrangement Of All Things (part 2)

Heidelcast

on April 10, 2020

We are continuing our series on the doctrine of God, I Am That I Am. This is part 15 of the series, which begins with Heidelcast episode 123. This episode is the second part of our discussion of the doctrine of divine . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 146: I AM That I AM (14): God’s Sovereign Arrangement Of All Things

Heidelcast

on April 4, 2020 | 2 Comments

We are continuing our series on the doctrine of God, I Am That I Am. This is part 14 of the series, which begins with Heidelcast episode 123. We could not be addressing a more timely topic: providence. Heidelberg Catechism 27 asks: . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 145: I AM That I AM (13): Some Implications Of The Divine Attributes

Heidelcast

on March 26, 2020

With this episode we return to our series on the doctrine of God, I Am That I Am. We are thinking today a little bit more about some of the implications of the attributes of God. Remember we distinguish between God’s incommunicable . . . Continue reading →

What God Is Telling Us Through The Corona Virus

R. Scott Clark

on March 17, 2020 | 25 Comments

Whenever there is a dreadful, large-scale event, e.g., a terrorist attack or the outbreak of disease, someone is sure to announce that this is God’s judgment on the world for our sins. Without a doubt, by nature, after the fall, we all . . . Continue reading →

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