Tag Archives: Charles Hodge

Cherry Picking Alert (and boy are those trunks sappy!)

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 13, 2012
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The Gospel Coalition has launched a year-long series of blog posts about Princeton Theological Seminary, a school that celebrates its bicentennial this year. The first post introduces PTS by likening the institution to the Young, Restless, and Reformed movement. Controversies swirl around celebrity pastors and their best-selling books. Evangelicals unite across denominational lines to share… 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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The Danger of Revivals and of Their Critics

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

Our favorite PCA blogger has once again kicked up a little e-dust with a review of Kenneth Stewart’s new book, Ten Myths about Calvinism: Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition. The review itself is worth reading, as is a subsequent post that explains the author’s perspective (the author being pastor William H. Smith aka… Read More→

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Oldlife.org 201: Wit and Sarcasm

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

The first installment in this series about this blog was to clarify what a blog is. One aspect that I did not mention was that the more successful blogs are provocative – that is, they agitate readers and that’s why people come back. The most successful blogger in the world arguably is Andrew Sullivan, the… 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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Happy Hodgemas

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 28, 2010

I understand that for those observers of all holidays, but holy and secular, persevering a whole week between Christmas and New Year’s Day without a party can be an ordeal. I also know that for those vinegary Presbyterians who don’t observe the nativity of Christ in late December, non-observance can look downright acidic. The remedy… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Hodge on Romans 5: 1-11

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 13, 2010

The first consequence of justification by faith is, that we have peace with God, ver. 1. The second, that we have not only a sense of his present favour, but assurance of future glory, ver. 2. The third, that our afflictions, instead of being inconsistent with the divine favour, are made directly conducive to the… Read More→

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Two Kingdom Tuesday: Macadam or Concrete?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 13, 2010

Does Christianity involve a conviction about roads and their construction? To hear some critics of 2k, the problem with distinguishing between a spiritual and an earthly kingdom is that it creates a vacuum of neutrality. Something is either sacred/religious or secular/non-religious. By granting a sphere that is not religious is to create a bogey that… Read More→

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Forensic Friday (night): Hodge on Paul on the Gospel

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 28, 2010

The apostle, in unfolding the plan of redemption proceeds on the assumption that men are under a law or covenant which demands perfect obedience, and which threatens death in case of transgression. He then shows that no man, whether Jew or Gentile, can fulfill the conditions of that covenant, or so obey the law as… Read More→

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