Category Archives: Nicotine Theological Journal

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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Ad Hominem or, How to Read Criticism

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 29, 2009

Here are a couple hypotheticals. Both have to do with the ways people may take offense selectively. First, say I am a political theorist who greatly admires the Federalist Papers (which I am not) and the arguments found there about the need for a Constitution that specifies the branches of a new federal government and… Read More→

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The Great Debate Concluded

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 13, 2009

(Reprinted from NTJ, April 1997) From: Glenn Morangie To: T. Glen Livet Date: 9/23/96 5:03pm Subject: Re: Psalmody -Reply -Reply -Reply -Reply Glen, I have been so long in responding because they actually want me to do work here. Go figure. I also couldn’t help but revel in your remark that I was “right on… Read More→

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We Apologize

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 19, 2009

Because some readers of the NTJ took exception to a recent article, and because we had no intention of giving offense, we offer the following apology: With reference to the article “Priorities” in the last NTJ (Winter 2009), the editors unreservedly apologize for implying that there is any tension between the position of Carl Trueman… Read More→

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Father Interlocutor

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 14, 2009

Richard John Neuhaus, who died fairly suddenly on Jan. 8, 2009, was an inspiration for the NTJ, both as an editor and a critic of mainstream American Christianity (read: Protestantism). That is about where any comparison between this publication and his, First Things, begins and abruptly ends. Where Neuhaus rubbed shoulders with religious and political… Read More→

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It Can’t Happen Here

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 3, 2009

About twenty years ago, when George Marsden came out with his history of Fuller Seminary, Reforming Fundamentalism (1987), faculty, administrators, and board members at Westminster Seminary invited the author to talk to them about what the history of FTS might teach them. The general verdict of many who participated in that seminar with Marsden was… Read More→

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So You Don’t Need a Brown Paper Bag

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 19, 2009

(From NTJ, January  1998) Nicotine of Hippo     We recently heard a wonderful suggestion about the name of our journal, one that might help readers who want their church libraries to take the NTJ but fear what other church members will make of the title and its association with the evil weed. Why not tell… Read More→

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Insufficient Reasons

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 27, 2009

The fanfare among evangelical Presbyterians for Tim Keller’s book was deafening. So we decided to see what someone from the audience for whom Keller wrote – a non-believer – would think of Keller’s arguments. After all, are people who already believe really the best to judge a book designed to persuade those who don’t? As… Read More→

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NTJ: October 2006 Vol. 10 No. 4

By admin | Published: February 24, 2009

Contents Allen E. Rich Growth Without Growing Up Bryan A. Pieters The Reformed Faith & Its Latest Substitute Townsend P. Levitt Big Sky Diarist: Worship Disenchanted 39 Alexander Hall Second Hand Smoke Index of Articles from Volumes 1-10 PDF Download

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Sabbath, Psalms and Single Malt: The NTJ

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 22, 2009

Why are you reading yet another venture in Reformed desktop publishing (aside from the fact that we can’t afford a more substantial publication)? After all, confessional Presbyterians do not lack for periodicals that defend sound theology and spot bad imitations. There are many publications that print a steady diet of articles reflecting sound biblical and… Read More→

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