Category Archives: spirituality of the church

What’s Good for the Immanentizer is Good for the Post-Millennialist

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 10, 2011

Alan Jacobs pushes back against Andrew Sullivan’s recent denunciation of Christianism. According to Sullivan: Christians will look back on this period, I believe, with horror. The desire to control others’ lives and souls through politics is so anathema to the Gospels it will one day have to be exposed and ended. Until then, we just… Read More→

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Who’s Radical Now?

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 8, 2011

The Brothers Bayly are persistent in besmirching two-kingdom theology and its proponents but their latest swipe is rich indeed. They have reprinted a mysterious piece (impossible to find anywhere else on the Net) about the enormities of the Obama administration. Nathan Ed Schumacher is the author and Tim Bayly’s foreword runs ever charitably as follows:… Read More→

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Kingdom Sloppy: A Big Bowl of Wrong

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

Readers of Oldlife may think I am too hard on Kuyper and neo-Calvinism. I know of one reader and commenter who regularly replies that I am just pointing out errors but that neo-Calvinism in its purity is — well — pure. Another respondent has admitted to some flaws along the way but nothing inherently erroneous… Read More→

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Two Kingdoms, Two Liberties

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 4, 2011

And now for a different English perspective on political independence. This one comes from the men whom many conservative Presbyterians believe to be the “founding fathers” of Presbyterianism — namely, the Westminster Divines (not to be confused with the divines who teach at Westminster Seminary California). As near as I can tell, without yet sufficient… Read More→

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Is This Where Neo-Calvinism Leads?

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 30, 2011

Our favorite PCA blogger (why? He’s more my age than Stellman) has adapted an older article from the Nicotine Theological Journal for his blog, calling it “Bye, Bye Kuyper.” Here is an excerpt: Christians have come to believe that they worship God as much in their weekday jobs as they do on the Lord’s Day… Read More→

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Pastor 2K to Tim Keller’s Rescue

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 9, 2011

The watchdogs of Redeemer Church in NYC have noted Tim Keller’s response to questions in a public forum about homosexuality and gay marriage. The exchange came at the end of the interview and according to the Bayly’s transcribing powers went like this: Lauren Green (interviewer): As a church, how should we as Christians and how… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: How Can You Not Be 2K If You Are Spirituality of the Church?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 5, 2011

Calvin makes it easy; you only have to get over the National Covenant, Kuyper, Bahnsen, and Wilson: My kingdom is not of this world. By these words he acknowledges that he is a king, but, so far as was necessary to prove his innocence, he clears himself of the calumny; for he declares, that there… Read More→

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Kuyperians and Theonomists, Say “Hello” to the Old School Presbyterians

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 23, 2011

I continue to be amazed by the decibels of hostility and venom heaped upon 2k. From bloggers like Nelson Kloosterman, James K. A. Smith, David Koyzis, Doug Wilson, Steven Wedgeworth, Rabbi Bret and the Bayly Bros., to your average and pseudonymous commenters at various Reformed blogs, many Reformed Protestants and evangelicals believe that 2k theology… Read More→

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Introducing the Old School Presbyterians: Stuart Robinson

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 3, 2011

I’ve been wondering. Do contemporary Reformed Protestants read Old School Presbyterians — at all? Over at Green Baggins where a fiesty exchange of slings and arrows — count ‘em, over 1,300 comments and climbing — over 2k has diverted what could have been a good conversation about the value of polemical theology I posted the… 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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