Monthly Archives: August 2009

Conservatism and Civil Religion

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

Pomo’s and Fropo’s are at it again.

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Does T.O. Read CT?

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

Is it egotistical to think so, bro?

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The Whole Christ

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

I keep hearing that justification is only a part of salvation and so falls short of yielding the “whole Christ.” I understand the desire to do justice to all the benefits that believers receive in this life from Christ – including adoption and sanctification.. But I wonder if this concern for all of Christ recognizes… Read More→

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Summer Reading

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 10, 2009

“I don’t read books, I write them.” The first time I said that I knew it didn’t sound good. And that was the point because it was actually more a joke on me than on those who haven’t written books. Historians do not write because they are necessarily wise. And the way historians write means… Read More→

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Warfield on the Centrality of Justification

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

In an ongoing attempt to explain why some Reformed Protestants – okay, this one – are concerned about any formulation of doctrine that would de-center justification by faith, the following quotation from Benjamin Warfield is especially apt. It expresses the problem of human sin and the need for perfect righteousness with the sort of clarity… Read More→

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The Baptized Luther, Part One

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

(From the April 2001 NTJ) The basic problem for any evangelical historian approaching Martin Luther is, of course, the centuries of mythology, literary, visual, anecdotal, that have come to surround the man and the Reformation in the evangelical tradition. How many third rate Protestant artists have painted their pictures of an angry Luther nailing the… Read More→

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Don’t Bug Us

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

Which is another way of saying that back issues of the NTJ have been carefully pdf’ed and are beginning to be posted at the Back Issues page of this blog.  Many thanks to James H. Grant for this work, with an assist or two from Camden Bucey.

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