Monthly Archives: May 2009

Good Job, Bruce!

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 12, 2009

This occasion was too good for only one blog.

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Justification by Works, What the . . . !

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 11, 2009

Or, beware the ellipses. Steven R. Coxhead, an Old Testament scholar in Australia, has a piece in the current issue of the Westminster Theological Journal that is mind numbingly perplexing. The title gives away the author’s argument: “John Calvin’s Subordinate Doctrine of Justification by Works.” He concludes that although Calvin rejected a view of justification… Read More→

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Another Part of the Conn-versation

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

From Harvie Conn, “A Church with a Message,” Presbyterian Guardian, Jan. 1958 Our Church has too many faults. Seminary professors, and students have long been pointing them out. But with all her faults, I love her still. As a new year rolls around, I’m thankful to be a minister of God’s pure gospel in her… Read More→

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Rob Bell on, you know, “The Healing Thing”

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 7, 2009

Christianity Today recently interviewed Rob Bell, the pastor responsible for taking emergent Christianity to the New Jerusalem of North American neo-Calvinism. Among the different questions and answers was this exchange: You say, “Jesus wants to save us from making the Good News about another world and not this one.” What do you mean? The story… Read More→

Posted in Wilderness Wanderings | 13 Comments

Winding the Theonomists Up

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 7, 2009

Over at First Principles, Lynn Robinson has a good review essay of a new IVP book by Greg Foster, The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics.  Robinson quotes Foster to good effect about the political theology of the New Testament (or the lack thereof): Almost the only political teaching it provides is… Read More→

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Carl Gets the Last Word?

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 5, 2009

And makes a very good point about ecclesiology, as opposed to sexual misconduct, along the way. No presbytery just wakes up one morning and, out of the blue, declares `I’m going to ordain a practising homosexual today.’  As every presbyterian knows, our church courts change very, very slowly.  So the question to ask is: how… Read More→

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Between a Millstone and a Mandate

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

Nelson Kloosterman, professor of Ethics and New Testament Studies at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, is laying it on thick in a series for Christian Renewal, a Dutch-Canadian Reformed news and opinion magazine. The series is entitled, “The Bible, The Church, and the World: A Third Way.” In it, Kloosterman attempts to forge a middle ground between… Read More→

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Ref21 Food Fight

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

Carl Trueman continues to wonder about the advisability of singling out homosexuality in the Church of Scotland.   “Apparently, this man left his wife and children to pursue his homosexual relationship.  If true, he is an adulterer. That he is a gay adulterer compounds the issue but does not define it. Again, like a one string… Read More→

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