Thanks to Stephen Ley for alerting me to this interesting discussion. I don’t pretend to understand the intricacies of PCUSA (the mainline, largest and most liberal Presbyterian body in North America). What is interesting about this sort of argument in this context is that . . . Continue reading →
Recovering the Reformed Confession
Theonomy and Federal Vision: Separated at Birth?
The question comes concerning the relations between Theonomy and the Federal Vision. There is reason to think that there is some connection between the two movements. several well-known theonomists are also proponents of the FV. One of the FV leaders recently described . . . Continue reading →
Foster Care, Seminary, and the Practicality of Being Confessional
A fine essay by WSC student (and my TA) Joshua Forrest. Apparently all orthodoxy is not dead orthodoxy.
It's Almost a Reality
Just saw the draft cover art for the forthcoming book, Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice [Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2008] to be published in Oct/Nov of this year. I’ll post the cover art when it’s finalized and provide . . . Continue reading →
Iain Campbell on Catechism Preaching
“Hey Mikey, he likes it!“
Re-Learning to Speak the Faith
Chris has a great post on this.
Bryan Estelle: What is Faith?
New on the WSC site.
If We Won't Discipline Are We Really A Church?
re-post from 12 September 2007 — One of the clearest commands our Lord gave during his ministry, before his crucifixion, death, burial, and ascension, was to practice discipline in the congregations (Matt 18). It has been abused, but more often it has . . . Continue reading →
When Is A Church Not A Church?
Editor’s Note: this essay first appeared on the HB in 2007. At that point the Federal Vision controversy was still in the process of being adjudicated by the confessional Reformed and Presbyterian Churches. In the summer of 2007 both the PCA and . . . Continue reading →
Heidelberg Reformation Association Newsletter for June
Is now online here (PDF) It’s free and features essays by Danny Hyde on why dispensationalism is so popular, by Bill Bruinsma on the necessity of the moral law for the Christian, by me on whether God is capricious, and book reviews of . . . Continue reading →
A Friendly Response to Bruce McCormack
Here is the first post in this series. Here is Bruce’s response to that post. Hi Bruce, Thanks for your thoughtful responses to my questions. Judging by your responses I think I was not clear enough in a few places.
The Rejection of Errors (2): The Antithesis and Eschatology
In the first post in this series I connected the Rejection of Errors adopted at the Synod of Dort (1619) with the Reformed doctrine of “antithesis” between belief and unbelief. To put that doctrine in some context I offered a brief overview . . . Continue reading →
Princeton Lecturing WTS/P on the Confessions? (updated)
One sign that we’ve entered a strange new time is that a Princeton Seminary prof has written an essay in order to instruct WTS/P faculty about the meaning of the Definition of Chalcedon as understood by the Westminster Confession.
Back on the Table Again
Martin Downes has been blogging the renewed controversy over the inerrancy of God’s Word. This is a discussion that many have not wanted to have for a long time. When I started seminary in 1984 the sounds of the last “Battle for the Bible” . . . Continue reading →
The Rejection of Errors (1): A Brief History of the Antithesis
Part two of this series is here. ___ Kim Riddlebarger is working his way through the Canons of Dort. He’s covering the Rejection of Errors. The RE was the Synod of Dort’s way of re-asserting the anthesis between the Reformed faith and . . . Continue reading →
Reformed and Pentecostal?
James K. A. Smith has an interesting post at CT: Teaching a Calvinist to Dance. In this post he says he longs for a “a kind of ‘Pentecostalized’ Reformed spirituality.”
When Officers Subscribe
Wes has good thoughts on the sacred duty of subscribing the Reformed confessions.
True Confessions
Sometime back my friend and neighbor Jim Renihan, who directs the Institute for Reformed Baptist Studies that meets on campus at WSC, very graciously gave me a copy of his new edited collection of confessions from the 16th and 17th centuries. In . . . Continue reading →
Coming in Sept: Christ and the Decree
It’s been out of print for a while but Baker is re-publishing Richard Muller’s groundbreaking work, Christ and the Decree. We’ll have copies at the WSC Bookstore and you can pre-order it at Amazon. Thanks to WSC student Josh Forrest for point . . . Continue reading →
Carl is Right…Twice (Updated)
The 17th-century Reformed didn’t “narrow” Reformed theology, they broadened it and made it deeper and more catholic. He likes Danny’s commentary on the Belgic Confession!