Monthly Archives: April 2010

All Spirit, No Body: Evangelicalism’s Gnostic Problem

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 19, 2010
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The Evangelical Manifesto has pretty much come and gone. (It’s domain name has actually expired.) It was supposed to give evangelicalism, sagging with the worries and fears of the Religious Right, a face lift. And then along came Sarah Palin and the chances for evangelicalism finding a prettier face happened, but not the way the… Read More→

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“The Stakes Have Never Been Higher”

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 17, 2010

Really? According to ABC News, and its report on the resignation of Bruce Waltke from Reformed Theological Seminary, both sides agree that the stakes are indeed that high. Higher than the Scopes Trial? I was glad that they did not bring up William Jennings Bryan and his difficult testimony before Clarence Darrow’s badgering. But from… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Anathema

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 16, 2010

CANON XI.-If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them; or even that the… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 14, 2010

[The reformers] went beyond Anselm in distinguishing clearly between active and passive obedience in the mediatorial work of Christ, and in recognizing the former as well as the latter as a part of the atoning work of Christ. The God-man satisfied the demands of the divine justice, not merely by His sufferings and death, but… Read More→

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Getting over the Puritans, Say Hello to the Huguenots

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 14, 2010

I cannot say enough good things about Philip Benedict’s Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism (Yale University Press, 2002). Among the reasons for recommending the book, aside from careful scholarship and judicious conclusions, is Benedict’s attention to the variety of Reformed expressions as they took shape in diverse cultural and political contexts.… Read More→

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Ecumenism and Intolerance

By Camden Bucey | Published: April 14, 2010

Darryl G. Hart speaks about Machen and the Plan of Organic Union.  This is part four of a series on Machen taught at Calvary OPC in Glenside, PA. Download the audio post photo from finizio

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Walker Percy on American Protestantism

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 13, 2010

The main character, Tom More, writing about his Protestant wife: Later Ellen experienced a religious conversions. She became disaffected when the Southern and Northern Presbyterians, estranged since the Civil War, reunited after over a hundred years. It was not the reunion she objected to but the liberal theology of the Northern Presbyterians, how, according to… Read More→

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Has President Obama Been Reading the Baylys?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 10, 2010

Sometime ago, to ridicule two-kingdom theology even more, the Baylys ran a post on whether the resurrection has any public policy implications. Apparently, Obama took the bait and issued remarks at the White House Easter prayer breakfast that outlined the implications of the resurrection for civil society. (By the way, how do you spot the… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Murray on the Gospel

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 9, 2010

“Him who knew no sin he made to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him” (2 Cor 5:21). This clearly points us to the vicarious sin bearing of Christ as that which brought the reconciliation into being. This forensic character of the reconciliation is also borne out in… Read More→

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If Only Kuyperians Were As Reasonable as Godfrey

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 9, 2010

Over at Confessional Outhouse, RubeRad (what’s up with those names?) has a quotation from Bob Godfrey’s address at the Westminster California conference on Christ and culture. Here it is: As is often true in the history of the church, we [Kuyperians and 2K-ers] may not all perfectly agree what the Bible says, but I think… Read More→

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