Tag Archives: Calvin

Forensic Friday: Calvin on Conscience

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 14, 2010

We must take our definition from the etymology of the word. When men grasp the conception of things with the mind and the understanding they are said “to know,” from which the word “knowledge” is derived. In like manner, when men have an awareness of divine judgment adjoined to them as a witness which does… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: How Sinful Women become Righteous

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

Briefly put, then, one key problem with denying a priority of justification to sanctification is that it makes sanctification something other than what it is. The very character and identity of the Christian life are at stake. As Calvin has stated, when discussing the importance of justification, “For unless you first of all grasp what… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 14, 2010

[The reformers] went beyond Anselm in distinguishing clearly between active and passive obedience in the mediatorial work of Christ, and in recognizing the former as well as the latter as a part of the atoning work of Christ. The God-man satisfied the demands of the divine justice, not merely by His sufferings and death, but… Read More→

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The Return of This and That

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 10, 2010

Hide it under a bushel? No! But under camouflage? Yes. At least that the implied message of the new “Camo” edition of the American Patriot’s Bible. (Thanks to our mid-West correspondent.) This pocket version of the popular American Patriot’s Bible reminds Christians of the Bible’s living legacy in the history of America, a nation built… Read More→

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Was Calvin a Neo-Calvinist or an Evangelical?

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 11, 2009

The punch line is, what’s the difference? Badop bop. Timothy George, dean of the Beeson Divinity School at Samford University, has a number of articles in a recent issue of Christianity Today that is devoted to John Calvin. George is a very fine historian of the Reformation so the reason for his rendition of Calvin… Read More→

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Easy Obeyism

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 9, 2009

Over the last several decades discussions of justification among Presbyterians have too often included a remark or two about how salvation is more than justification. When asked to explain the partial nature of justification, interlocutors will talk about the need for sanctification and good works, and sometimes mention the impossibility of entering into glory with… Read More→

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The Unconverted Calvin, Part Two

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 26, 2009

From the NTJ, October 2000 (concluded) Whatever the merits of Bouwsma’s historical scholarship, his point about Calvin’s conversion or, better, evolution should not come as a shock to those who claim to follow in the French Reformer’s spiritual footsteps. That it does amaze is testimony to the way that pietistic influences have eaten away Presbyterian… Read More→

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Geneva without Trueman

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

But this may fill the void.

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