Monthly Archives: November 2010

Neo-Calvinists Should Be Afraid, Very Afraid

By D. G. Hart | Published: November 28, 2010

I have said many times that the prefix “neo” is more important for understanding neo-Calvinism than the noun. But the more I read neo-Calvinists, I wonder if they actually read Calvin or simply make up what they contend to be the Reformed faith. Just this afternoon I was reading Henry Van Til’s A Calvinistic Concept… Read More→

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Act Two, Scene Two: Cheap Shot

By D. G. Hart | Published: November 26, 2010

Actually, the title should be plural since in one of his first reviews of VanDrunen’s Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms Nelson Kloosterman decided to insert a [sic] after VanDrunen’s phrase, “the Reformed tradition of natural law and the two kingdoms.” Kloosterman explained, “Because we are in danger of annoying our readers, we shall now… Read More→

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Nelson Kloosterman May Not Be But I Am Thankful for David VanDrunen

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

The reason is that Dave is a Calvinist who knows his Bible and is turning up the heat on that turkey we know as neo-Calvinism. Ultimately, however, neo-Calvinism needs to be questioned not because of its struggle to accomplish what it set out to do but because it is so foreign to the message of… Read More→

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Good and Necessary Consequence?

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

Mike Horton often laments that the evangelicals who become excited about confessional Protestant theology often do not realize that the new teachings and practices they adopt are at odds with older parts of their born-again devotion and conviction. Mike likens this to a notebook in which the student puts in new pages but neglects to… Read More→

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The 2k/Anti-2k Fault Line

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

For the most part, the critics of 2k do not care for (to put it mildly) the work or arguments of Meredith Kline (who happens to be arguably the most original and creative of Old Westminster’s faculty – and still remained theologically reliable). Those who argue for a 2k-position have generally drawn from the biblical… Read More→

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Always Reformed

By admin | Published: November 20, 2010
Always Reformed

W. Robert Godfrey has served the confessional Reformed and Presbyterian churches and the broader evangelical community as a leader, teacher, and scholar for more than 35 years. Old Life’s own Darryl G. Hart and John Muether have contributed to Always Reformed, a festschrift in honor of Dr. Godfrey.

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Obsessive Cultural Disorder — Over Thinking Culture

By D. G. Hart | Published: November 19, 2010

Okay, I guess H. Richard Niebuhr was not a pietist, but I am struck by how much attention Protestants give to culture – whether to imbibe, whether to avoid, or how to engage properly. All of this compulsiveness feels like fundamentalists who are spooked by the world and their surroundings and can’t live comfortably in… Read More→

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Sociologists Supply The Statistics For What We Already Knew

By D. G. Hart | Published: November 18, 2010

I have friends who are sociologists, so I don’t mean to offend. But when I do read sociological data and the conclusions I sense that someone has spent a lot of time to argue what I already thought was the case. Confirmation of this impression comes (thanks to Lig Duncan) from George Barna’s results on… Read More→

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You Know, For Kids

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

Is this the way we view catechesis, you know, for kids? My own experience as an elder is that I am harder on covenant children during interviews than adults. Questions generally work through the Trinity, Scripture, justification, sanctification, the sacraments, and church government. That’s for the kids, mind you. And if they know their Shorter… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: Going Mainstream?

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

Terry Eastland, the publisher of The Weekly Standard, recently wrote a review essay of James Davison Hunter’s, To Change the World, and David VanDrunen’s, Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms. After reading these books, Eastland is scratching his head that critics of transformationalism like Hunter are so dismissive of 2k theology. He writes: Oddly, To… Read More→

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