Audio: With Back To The Reformation Podcast On The Value Of The Reformation For Evangelicals

by R. Scott Clark on September 3, 2019

Recently I talked with Matthew and Onnig of the Back to the Reformation podcast about the value of the Reformation for contemporary evangelical churches, about what biblicism is (hint: it does not mean “to be biblical”), about American religious history and the . . . Continue reading →

More Conference Audio: Biblicism Versus Sola Scriptura

by R. Scott Clark on October 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

Here is the fifth installment of the audio from the conference, So You You Say You Want A Reformation? hosted by Bethlehem Bible Church in West Boylston, MA. This is one of the Saturday morning talks, on aspects of the QIRC (quest . . . Continue reading →

John Owen Defended Eternal Generation Against The Socinians

He Also Opposed Biblicism

by R. Scott Clark on October 24, 2020 | 7 Comments

Now, if Christ be not begotten of the essence of his Father, he is only a metaphorical Son of God by way of allusion, and cannot be called the proper Son of God, being only one who hath but a similitude to a proper Son Continue reading →

Augustine Contra Biblicism

by R. Scott Clark on November 18, 2020 | 4 Comments

Or if anyone should think this is untrue, I am not going to quarrel about it. After all, I am clearly dealing with Christians, who rejoice over their knowing the holy Scriptures without human guidance; and if that is the case, it . . . Continue reading →

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

by 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 →

How Did Some Evangelicals Come To Teach The “Eternal Subordination Of The Son”? Biblicism

by R. Scott Clark on December 17, 2020

Further, I am sincerely heartened by Fred’s optimism. I hope he is right. The best-selling evangelical textbook on systematic theology now includes a clear affirmation of the eternal generation of the Son and has removed the appendix that cast doubt on it. . . . Continue reading →

New Resource Page: On Biblicism

by R. Scott Clark on December 17, 2020 | 3 Comments

Biblicism is not the attempt to be faithful to Scripture (i.e., to be biblical). Rather, in its extreme form, biblicism is the attempt to read Scripture in isolation. It is the attempt to read Scripture in isolation from the rest of Scripture . . . Continue reading →

Muller On The Sources Of Biblicism

by R. Scott Clark on December 18, 2020 | 3 Comments

The rise and development of Socinianism in the seventeenth century cannot entirely account for the variant trinitarianisms of the age, including the English debates of the 1640s and 1650s, the variant language and historical perspectives of the Cambridge Platonists, and the doctrinal . . . Continue reading →

New Resource Page: On The Threefold Division Of The Law

by R. Scott Clark on January 21, 2021 | 1 Comment

The early Christian theologians implicitly distinguished within the 613 Mosaic Commandments (as the rabbis numbered them) between the judicial, ceremonial, and moral law. The moral law refers to the natural law, the law issued in creation and symbolized by the commandment not . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 189: What Must A Christian Believe? (7): Against Deism, Gambling, Pentecostalism, And Biblicism

by Heidelcast on August 14, 2021

Lots of evangelical Christians take it for granted that God and humans are co-equals. I know because I once thought that way. That is a profoundly Modern and Modernist way of thinking. It is not a biblical way of thinking nor is . . . Continue reading →

Review: Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew

by Jacob Aitken on January 4, 2022 | 5 Comments

Hans Boersma, Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew (Downers Grove, IL, InterVarsityPress, 2021). Introduction The idea behind this book is good. The author is right to say that no one approaches the biblical text without a prior commitment to metaphysics. Nevertheless, . . . Continue reading →

Postmodern Confessionalism?

by Harrison Perkins on April 14, 2022

The relationship between biblical authority and ecclesiology has always been interesting. The Reformed commitment to sola Scriptura was never biblicism, as if it were solo Scriptura.1 The Reformed tradition from its outset was at the same time devoted to the Bible’s ultimate . . . Continue reading →

What Tradition Is And Does

by Heidelblog on June 1, 2022 | 1 Comment

(1) Central to the task of transmitting the faith from one generation to the next is the requirement of transmitting it as a whole, without addition or subtraction. In my judgment, the modern project of “mediating theology” often failed precisely in this . . . Continue reading →

Discounted To $2.99: The Kindle Version Of Olevianus’ Exposition Of The Apostles’ Creed

by R. Scott Clark on July 26, 2022 | 2 Comments

It is good to see evangelicals rediscovering the Great Christian Tradition, i.e., the broad stream of ecumenical (universal) Christian truth represented by the ecumenical creeds. The confessional Reformed churches, however, have always, from the beginning of the Reformation, been aware of and . . . Continue reading →

American Presbyterians’ “Bible-onlyism”

by Heidelblog on January 5, 2023

THE POINT HERE IS NOT SO much the problems of recent Catholic and evangelical statements (though we do dissent from those affirmations). Rather our concern is with the understanding of religious traditions and their truth claims that undergirds not simply such statements . . . Continue reading →