Monthly Archives: April 2009

Why Blogging Beats Youtube

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 9, 2009

So I receive my daily email from the History News Network which includes a report about a panel at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting on the state of the history of American conservatism.  Research and personal interests, not to mention the entertainment supplied by liberal academics having to talk about conservatives, prompt me to… Read More→

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Neo-Conn-versation vs. Paleo-Conn-versation

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 8, 2009

The legacy of Harvie Conn, home and foreign missionary for the OPC, and longtime member of the WTS faculty, is less contested than it should be. A blog, though dormant of late, has been dedicated to preserving Harvie’s insights about contextualization and globalization. One former WTS Old Testament professor has also recently been posting a… Read More→

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The Great Debate: Psalms vs. Hymns II

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 6, 2009

(From the NTJ, Jan. 1997) From: Glenn Morangie To: T. Glen Livet Date: 9/3/96 11:10am Subject: Psalmody -Reply Glen, Thanks for the response. This is surely better, but I am still uneasy about the compositions of men. Which means I think the inspired words of God are a pretty good way of singing praise to… Read More→

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Seeking a Better Country

By Camden Bucey | Published: April 3, 2009

Seeking a Better Country is a readable and lively survey of American Presbyterianism since its founding in 1706. Its aim is not to celebrate but to understand how Presbyterians formed one of the largest and most influential denominations in the United States, and those historical developments that led to their decline.

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Can This Co-Editorial Relationship be Saved?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 3, 2009

The editors of the NTJ are big baseball fans.  They also root for teams that are rivals and whose fans generally hate each other.  For that reason it is profitable and even Christian to feel the love that National Review Online has assembled before the animosity of MLB’s season begins.  “For the Love of the… Read More→

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It Can’t Happen Here

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 3, 2009

About twenty years ago, when George Marsden came out with his history of Fuller Seminary, Reforming Fundamentalism (1987), faculty, administrators, and board members at Westminster Seminary invited the author to talk to them about what the history of FTS might teach them. The general verdict of many who participated in that seminar with Marsden was… Read More→

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Would A Reformed-World-and-Life View Be More Effective?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 1, 2009

Jeremy Beer has many good points to make about Newt Gingrich’s conversion to the Roman Catholic Church. Among them is the following, that has surprising resonance with a two-kingdoms theology (why wouldn’t it? All Western Christians of merit are deep-down Augustinian): It is unwarranted in the first place to think that serious, practicing Catholics will… Read More→

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