Zrim offers some helpful quotations and analysis at the Outhouse.
Twofold Kingdom
White Horse Inn: Christianity, Politics, and the Two Kingdoms
Mike hosted an excellent roundtable discussion featuring Darryl Hart, adjunct professor at WSC and Director of Academic Programs at ISI, Dan Bryant, former Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice, and Neil McBride, a strategist for the Democratic Party. This is . . . Continue reading →
The Social Crisis is Too Great to Be Arguing About…
Fill in the blank here. I can’t say how many times I’ve had emails or read comments to this effect. Often these earnest comments come from ostensible theological “conservatives” urging me and others to be more moderate on things such as justification. . . . Continue reading →
Your Weekly Machen Fix
Thanks to Dan.
"Two Kingdoms" circa 115-50?
A notable early Christian apologist didn’t get the transformationalist memo. Ep. to Diognetus (5.1-11): For Christians are not distinguished from the rest of humanity by country, language, or custom. 2 For nowhere do they live in cities of their own, nor do . . . Continue reading →
Flash: Reformed Writer Uses Two Kingdoms
I’m working an essay on the history of covenant theology for a collection edited by Herman Selderhuis to be published by Brill in 2009. I just ran across something that I should have noticed, thought about or remembered years ago but didn’t. . . . Continue reading →
Or Maybe He Should Have Stayed Home?
The Fourth Circuit has upheld the ban of a minister from praying at city council meetings in Fredericksburg, VA. His crime? He prays in Jesus’ name. That’s a sectarian prayer. Yes, it is and it’s a good thing too.
Ministers of God for Our Good
David VanDrunen on how Christians should think about the civil magistrate.
May Christians Take Prozac?
That’s the question WSC student Simon Jooste considers at Creed or Chaos.
The AG Says: Calvinists No Threat
Apparently the two-kingdoms theology is making more progress than I thought. The NY Sun today quotes the Attorney General of the United States as saying: So far as focusing investigations, we investigate where the threat is coming from. The threat is coming . . . Continue reading →
Two on Christ and Culture
Sometimes pagan get it when Christian don’t Politically correct Constantinianism?
New Audio: A Biblical Case for Natural Law
Thanks to the folks at Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim.
Two Kingdoms in Christianity Today
Uwe-Siemon-Netto writes, “Election 08’s ‘False Clerics and Schismatic Spirits.’” Thanks to Darryl Hart for the heads up.
Is Obama Wright or Wrong?
Bill Chellis weighs in helpfully.
There is More Than One Way to Take the Lord's Name in Vain
In the Outhouse.
General Equity and Eliot Spitzer
Bill Chellis weighs in thoughtfully.
Pastor Wright, Evangelicals, and the Two Kingdoms
Jeremiah Wright is the former pastor of Trinity UCC in Chicago. Where, in evangelical mega-church circles, 10,000 members is a medium-sized congregation, in the world of dwindling mainline churches, Trinity is a bona fide mega-church. Pastor Wright’s recent comments, however, illustrate another . . . Continue reading →
How the Two Kingdoms Doctrine Could Have Prevented ECT
From the beginning it was apparent that the cart driving theological horse in the Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) negotiations (which continue!) is the pressure to form a “common front” against neo-paganism, secularism, materialism, and other forms of fallout from late modernity. . . . Continue reading →
Neo-Lib Theocracy? Just Say No
The two-kingdoms ethic rejects theocracy from the right or the left.
Reeves Responds to Clark
Russ Reeves of Tolle Blogge (his blog is no longer available) and Providence Christian College wrote such a thoughtful response to the “Natural is Not Neutral” post that it shouldn’t be buried in the comments.