Category Archives: Paleo Calvinism

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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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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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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This Is Not a Program for Changing the World

By D. G. Hart | Published: October 11, 2010

The discordant note in the Kuyperian and Niebuhrian conceptions of Reformed Protestantism is to turn Calvinism not into the little engine that could but the big combine that did and did it some more. Aside from the lack of humility inherent in pointing to Reformed Protestantism as a world-transforming faith that affects every aspect of… Read More→

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Confession of Faith or Health Care Legislation?

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 4, 2010

My confession of faith is not the Westminster Confession. It is the confession of my communion, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Of course, our confession bears many resemblances to the Westminster Confession. But if folks look at the publication of our confession, neatly produced by the Committee on Christian Education, it reads, the “Confession of Faith… Read More→

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Putting the TR in Trueman

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

Carl Trueman’s comments on Dinesh D’Souza appointment as president of King’s College have prompted further discussion. In a post that responds to the charge that Trueman was guilty of applying seminary standards to a liberal arts college, the Lord Protector of WTS explains that the real confusion is on the other side — namely, promoting… Read More→

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Joining the Club?

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

“Trey” may think that Carl Trueman puts it more graciously than we have, but the Lord Protector of Westminster Seminary has another stellar post about the significance of The King’s College’s new president, a Roman Catholic, Dinesh D’Souza. Trueman writes (but the entire post is worth reading): OK. So evangelicalism writ large verges on the… Read More→

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And the Winner of the Reformed Militant of the Week Is. . .

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

Carl Trueman (given his regard for boxing he may not mind the photo). First, he weighed in on the recent trend to polemicize against Reformed Protestants who engage in polemics. Trueman wrote: So, please, let’s bin this sad, misguided self-loathing on the polemic front. We must repent where necessary, where we have crossed the line;… Read More→

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