I would have preferred to pass over this matter in utter silence if I were not aware that here many dangerously go astray. For there are some who deny that a commonwealth is duly framed which neglects the political system of Moses, . . . Continue reading →
Author: R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He is professor emeritus of church history and historical theology at Westminster Seminary California, where he taught for 29 years. He also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007 and the Heidelcast since 2009.
Just Discovering Reformed Theology? TheoRecon Is A Toll-Booth You Should Skip
Introduction Arguably Reformed theology has never been more popular among evangelicals than it is right now. There are multiple large parachurch movements that extol the virtues of Reformed theology in a way that was unknown thirty years ago. It has never been . . . Continue reading →
As It Was In The Days Of Noah (27): 2 Peter 1:3–11 (part 3)
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins (2 Pet 1:8–9; ESV). Continue reading →
New HB Resource Page On LGBTQ And Revoice
In our never-ending quest to make the resources of the Heidelblog easily accessible we have created a new resource page devoted to LGBTQ issues, Revoice and so-called “Side-B” (Gay) Christianity. Here is the resource: Resources On LGBTQ And Revoice. The HB Resource Page contains . . . Continue reading →
What Christians Can Learn From The Decline Of Judaism In American
And think about this whenever progressives — such as we are dealing with in US Orthodox Christianity — say that we have to get with the times, and change our faith and practice to make it more suitable for contemporary America. But . . . Continue reading →
Another Baptist Pastor Becomes Confessionally Reformed
Benjamin Lee, Director of Youth Ministry at Oakwood Presbyterian Church (PCA), announced (via Twitter) that he had accepted this new position. He also indicated that he had left his Baptist convictions to adopt the Reformed confession (including the Reformed view of the . . . Continue reading →
Turretin: The Romanists Admit A Forensic Sense To “Justify” But They Also Have A Two-Stage Justification
V. Hence arises the question with the Romanists concerning the acceptation of this word—whether it is to be taken precisely in a forensic sense in this affair; or whether it ought also to be taken in a physical and moral sense for . . . Continue reading →
There Is Another Way: A Response To Francis Chan
“Again, I’m not making like any grand statements. I’m just saying that some of this stuff I didn’t know. I didn’t know that for the first 1500 years of church history, everyone saw it as the literal body and blood of Christ. . . . Continue reading →
Trueman: The UMC Split Is Only A Symptom Of A Much Deeper Problem
It is odd, however, that this is the issue that has produced the division. Same-sex marriage has not become plausible or imperative by virtue of its own merits. It has only become plausible as a function of much wider and deeper shifts . . . Continue reading →
Register Now For The 2020 Faculty Conference: In Adam, In Christ
January 17–18, 2020
This year’s faculty conference, our 15th annual, is: In Adam, In Christ. It is next week, on the campus of Westminster Seminary California, in beautiful Escondido. It is sunny today with an expected high temperature of 74F today. The predicted temps for . . . Continue reading →
Office Hours: With Dolf te Velde Learning To Love Reformed Orthodoxy
One of the great benefits of studying at Westminster Seminary California is the opportunity it gives both faculty and students to meet and learn from scholars from all over the world. This week we were blessed to have on campus to speak . . . Continue reading →
An Interview With A Former Baptist Pastor Turned Confessional Presbyterian Minister
Job Dalomba has just been called to pastor Christ Covenant PCA in Woodstock, GA. Not only is this his first call to a PCA congregation, it is also the culmination of his journey from Baptist to Reformed convictions. Until recently he was . . . Continue reading →
Owen: Christians Are In The Same Church As Abraham (3)
And this doth and must determine the difference between the Jews and Christians about the promises of the Old Testament. They are all made unto the church. No individual person hath any interest in them but by virtue of his membership therewith. . . . Continue reading →
Oxford Historian Carwardine: 1619 Project “Preposterous” And “Tendentious”
As well as the essay I have read your interviews with James McPherson and James Oakes. I share their sense that, putting it politely, this is a tendentious and partial reading of American history. I understand where this Project is coming from, . . . Continue reading →
Top Ten Posts Of 2019: Happy New Year From the Heidelblog
Happy New Year from the Heidelblog. Thanks to the two-hundred sixty-three thousand Heidelblog readers in 2019 and to the thousands of you who listened to the Heidelcast. Together (between the Heidelblog and rscottclark.org) you downloaded posts, pages, and podcasts over 758,000 times. . . . Continue reading →
A One-Week Latin Intensive With Dr David Noe
The Enlightenment Was Not What You Were Told It Was
The Smear Was Intentional
“[Rachael Denhollander] was in an image, basically blurred, it was an out of focus shot that had some artistic design to it to show that there’s something going on here. I knew you would know who that was, okay? I wasn’t surprised . . . Continue reading →
When The Gospel Is Marginalized There Is Always An Agenda
Over the past decade a floodwater of cultural change in our country has occurred, leaving a massive impact on the church in America. Twenty years ago, there was a push to address the issue of mercy ministry and evangelism in our churches. . . . Continue reading →
Owen: Christians Are In The Same Church As Abraham (2)
It remains, then, that the church founded in the covenant, and unto which all the promises did and do belong, abode at the coming of Christ, and doth abide ever since, in and among those who are the children of Abraham by . . . Continue reading →