Monthly Archives: June 2010

Tim Keller Should Join the OPC Where Fighting Is A Virtue

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 30, 2010

Those not going to Nashville for the PCA’s General Assembly may be interested to know that Tim Keller is appearing with Ligon Duncan at a mid-Assembly seminar for what looks like round two of their debate/discussion on the PCA’s identity. For those who want to know what Keller is going to say, no reason to… Read More→

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Assessing Machen

By The Staff | Published: June 30, 2010
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Darryl G. Hart concludes his series on J. Gresham Machen with a lesson on assessing this great figure in American Presbyterianism. Download the audio

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Two Kingdom Tuesday: Doug Wilson Gets It More Than Chuck Colson

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 29, 2010

The latter has written a piece for Christianity Today in which he argues that Christian creeds should inform the U.S. search for a national identity: I believe, then, that for national identity to be salient in the midst of our changing society, we need to promote a recommitment to our creeds, a respect for American… Read More→

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Hard or Soft, The Anti-2K Position Displays the Judaic Folly

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 25, 2010

(Or, how to blow Dr. Ortlund’s mind.) The hits keep coming. The line grows of people wanting to take a swipe at the two kingdom doctrine (while the silence on Lillback’s strange fire of Sacred Fire is deafening). A while back, Comment magazine published a piece by David Koyzis that critiques the 2k position, and… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: The URCNA’s Nine Points

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 25, 2010

THE NINE POINTS OF (URCNA) SYNOD (SCHERERVILLE) 2007 Synod affirms that the Scriptures and confessions teach the doctrine of justification by grace alone, through faith alone and that nothing that is taught under the rubric of covenant theology in our churches may contradict this fundamental doctrine. Therefore Synod rejects the errors of those: 1. who… Read More→

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Of Choice Meats and Good Cigars

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 24, 2010

Our friendly interlocutor, Zrim, took a dose of exception to the recent post here about drinking and smoking with Mike Horton – not with Mark Dever. He makes the plausible point that many Reformed types have graduated from a fundamentalist piety to the full-orbed one of smoking, drinking, and maybe even cussing, as part of… Read More→

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Do They Really Want What They Want?

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 24, 2010

Steven Wedgeworth over at Credenda Agenda has registered a critique of two-kingdom theology that uses David VanDrunen’s new book on natural law and the two kingdoms as the object of critique. Some of the usual federal vision suspects have lined up to promote Wedgeworth’s piece. Rabbi Bret writes: Wedgeworth also spends time exposing how the… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: Too Much of a Good Thing?

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 23, 2010

. . . In the fifth place, is it wise to use the language which is often used in the present day about the doctrine of “Christ in us”? I doubt it. Is not this doctrine often exalted to a position which it does not occupy in Scripture? I am afraid that it is. That… Read More→

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The Corporate Gullibility of the Church

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 22, 2010

Call it harmonic divergence, but I couldn’t help but read the transcript Tim Keller’s remarks on “gospel ecosystems” in the light of J. Gresham Machen’s remarks about the corporate responsibility of the church. I happened to be teaching on the latter during adult Sunday school and reading the former after a holy day feast and… Read More→

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When Tranformationalisms Collide

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 21, 2010

Our friendly but misguided theonomic sparring partner, Rabbi Bret, is a delegate to the Christian Reformed Church’s Synod. Let that sink in. Amazing! True to his voluble ways, Bret is peppering his blog with updates on the affairs of Synod. Having spent four years in the CRC and seen how Reformed-world-and-life-viewism of a left-leaning sort… Read More→

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