Monthly Archives: February 2009

I Thought It Was Black History Month

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 27, 2009

Turns out I’m wrong again.  Redeemer NYC is again on the cutting edge, going against the grain by making February Arts Month.  You can read more about it here (not to mention the female – ahem – Director of Arts Ministry – double ahem).  Just when I was set to watch Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, now I… Read More→

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Why is Your Face Any More Attractive?

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 27, 2009

Our good friend over at Heidelblog, Scott Clark, has some sage words for aspiring preachers.  But on one of his points Scott loses me.  He writes: Keep your head up (and leave the manuscript at home). No one in the congregation, except your mother, cares to see the top of your head. If you bring a… Read More→

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Insufficient Reasons

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 27, 2009

The fanfare among evangelical Presbyterians for Tim Keller’s book was deafening. So we decided to see what someone from the audience for whom Keller wrote – a non-believer – would think of Keller’s arguments. After all, are people who already believe really the best to judge a book designed to persuade those who don’t? As… Read More→

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Paleo- and Neo-Reformed

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 25, 2009

We didn’t ask for this but when a respected Protestant scholar invokes the category of Neo-Reformed (which implies a Paleo version), members of the Old Life Theological Society take the bait with relish (tabasco would help). In a blog that has gotten far more attention than it likely deserves, Scot McKnight complains about the efforts… Read More→

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NTJ: October 2006 Vol. 10 No. 4

By admin | Published: February 24, 2009

Contents Allen E. Rich Growth Without Growing Up Bryan A. Pieters The Reformed Faith & Its Latest Substitute Townsend P. Levitt Big Sky Diarist: Worship Disenchanted 39 Alexander Hall Second Hand Smoke Index of Articles from Volumes 1-10 PDF Download

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Sabbath, Psalms and Single Malt: The NTJ

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 22, 2009

Why are you reading yet another venture in Reformed desktop publishing (aside from the fact that we can’t afford a more substantial publication)? After all, confessional Presbyterians do not lack for periodicals that defend sound theology and spot bad imitations. There are many publications that print a steady diet of articles reflecting sound biblical and… Read More→

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Cornelius Van Til

By Camden Bucey | Published: February 20, 2009

John Muether talks with the Christ the Center panel about his book Cornelius Van Til:  Reformed Apologist and Churchman, the latest volume in the American Reformed Biography series published by Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing.  Professor Muether discusses various aspects of the life and thought of Van Til, including his involvement in the so-called Clark/Van Til… Read More→

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Reformed Forum

By Camden Bucey | Published: February 19, 2009

Old Life is part of the Reformed Forum, a network for confessional reformed theology.

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Deconstructing Evangelicalism Interview

By Camden Bucey | Published: February 19, 2009

Darryl G. Hart joined the panel on Christ the Center to talk about his book Deconstructing Evangelicalism. Hart points out that Evangelicalism actually is an umbrella term used to unite conservative Christians from different traditions. There never has been a generic Evangelical. The panel discussed the different senses of the word “Evangelical” and noted that… Read More→

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J. Gresham Machen

By Camden Bucey | Published: February 19, 2009

Darryl G. Hart discusses J. Gresham Machen on Christ the Center.  Hart explains the historical and continuing contemporary significance of Machen as well as intriguing details of his life and work.  Among highlights of the conversation are Machen’s formation of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions and the discussion of Machen’s literary legacy.

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