Monthly Archives: January 2011

With A Little Help from Our Experimental Calvinist Friends

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 26, 2011

Some of the critics of 2k have created the impression that it is a radical or non-mainstream position in the history of Reformed teaching. David VanDrunen’s recent publications suggest otherwise. Sometimes it seems that the debates are merely conflicting interpretations of history, with theology and exegesis, not to mention the church’s confession, waiting on the… Read More→

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That Tears It, I’m Joining the Gospel Coalition

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 25, 2011

There I may be appreciated finally (since it is all about me, after all). First it was Bryan Chapell video”>saying something very 2kish about the United States as a Christian nation. His answer was essentially, no. And that answer goes well with the 2k idea that the only Christian nation that ever existed was the… Read More→

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Common Sense Burial

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 24, 2011

Does the Bible require that when Christians die their bodies should be buried? An article over at Front Porch Republic makes a pretty good case for the Christian practice of burial, along with the not so felicitous implication that cremation is of pagan derivation. But we have no explicit instruction from Scripture, only examples. According… Read More→

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Silence is Leaden

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 22, 2011

I am detecting a parallel among critics and questioners of 2k. On the one hand, opponents have trouble with the idea (sorry Jeff, I’m not going ad hominem intentionally) that the Bible is silent on a range of subjects and activities. At the same time on the other hand, critics feel free to draw conclusions… Read More→

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A Proposal On Which All Anti-2kers May Unite

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 20, 2011

I know that not all anti-2kers get along. Heck, the Baylys seem to have banned Rabbi Bret from participating in all the fun over at their free wheeling discussions. Meanwhile, Dr. K., who may be the longest winded of 2k critics has appeal to Bret but may be too Dutch for the Baylys. Then there… Read More→

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Hide the Women and Children!

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 19, 2011

As I suspected, the review that Cornel Venema wrote of The Law is Not of Faith is not nearly as damning as various and sundry critics of Westminster California have let on. I figured that if Venema had written anything really juicy – like this is view that needs to be purged from our churches… Read More→

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Barefoot, Pregnant, and Unplugged

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 18, 2011

To say that the Bayly brothers have a one track mind would be to traffic in innuendo. I do not know them well enough to speculate on their sexual desires. I presume that as ministers of the gospel and as husbands their sexual passions are properly regulated. But in a sense they do have sex… Read More→

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Rhetorically Different, Functionally Similar

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 17, 2011

After yet another round of snark-prone discussion of 2k at Green Baggins (I don’t think we’ll reach the record of 800-plus comments that we did in the fall of 2008), I have come to understand better the attacks upon 2k. By holding to the position that the Bible speaks to all of life, folks like… Read More→

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The Spirituality of the Church at the Westminster California Conference on Machen

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 15, 2011

I had the wonderful opportunity to speak last night at the WSC conference, Christianity & Liberalism Revisted. My topic was “The Perennial Machen,” which I changed to “The Perennial Problem with Machen.” Since evangelicals, neo-Calvinists, and even secular do-gooders malign the doctrine of the spirituality of the church, I attempted in one point to explain… Read More→

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Gospel or Lord of the Rings?

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 14, 2011

Doug Wilson is a clever fellow and arguably as much fun as a beer-drinking companion as Mike Horton. But his wit may have gotten ahead of him when he responded to Dane Ortlund’s request for a one sentence answer to the message of the Bible (thanks to Justin Taylor). Wilson wrote: Scripture tells us the… Read More→

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