Once more: it was John Calvin (1509–64) who distinguished between the two spheres on God’s kingdom: Continue reading
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Heidelcast 227: Is Distinguishing Between The Two Spheres Of God’s Kingdom “Radical”?
Recently someone posted some criticisms of what they characterize as “radical two kingdom” theology or R2K. What are we talking about? In the 16th and 17th centuries our classic Reformed theologians regularly distinguished between “two kingdoms.” This way of talking was not controversial . . . Continue reading →
A Word About R2K
Since David VanDrunen published, in 2010, the first volume in what has become a series of important volumes, Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms: A Study in the Development of Reformed Social Thought, Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010), there has been a certain degree of controversy in some quarters of the confessional Reformed world over the recovery of the “two kingdoms” as a way of thinking about Christ and culture and ethics. Continue reading →
Letter To The Editor Regarding “A Radical Narrowing Of The Gospel”
Editor’s Note: The following is a letter to the editor in response to an article by the Rev. Mr. Doug Barnes, “A Radical Narrowing of the Gospel,” in The Outlook vol. 72, issue 5 (Sept/Oct, 2022). § Dear Sir, I just read . . . Continue reading →