sacred-secular distinction

Christian, Get Involved

by R. Scott Clark on June 18, 2022 | 7 Comments

One of the more pernicious misrepresentations of the distinction between the eternal and temporal spheres of Christ’s kingdom, which Calvin called the “twofold kingdom” (Institutes, 3.19.15), is that it counsels or leads Christians to withdraw from society (e.g., politics). Nothing could be . . . Continue reading →

Secular When It Should Be Sacred

by R. Scott Clark on June 24, 2022 | 6 Comments

A significant part of the process of recovering and applying classical Reformed theology to our contemporary situation (sometimes called ressourcement, a French word which refers to getting back to original sources) is recovering the distinctions that we lost in the 19th and . . . Continue reading →