Tag Archives: Christian liberty

Does Roman Catholic Emancipation Involve Breaking the First Commandment?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 6, 2011

According to the logic of the Baylys, the answer is yes. The brothers who are “out of their minds” are upset with Marvin Olasky and the rest of World Magazine for a piece on homosexual marriage by Megan Dunham in which she writes: For the longest time I’ve struggled to put my finger on just… 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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Obsessive Cultural Disorder — Over Thinking Culture

By D. G. Hart | Published: November 19, 2010

Okay, I guess H. Richard Niebuhr was not a pietist, but I am struck by how much attention Protestants give to culture – whether to imbibe, whether to avoid, or how to engage properly. All of this compulsiveness feels like fundamentalists who are spooked by the world and their surroundings and can’t live comfortably in… Read More→

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What’s A Lay Person To Do?

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 31, 2010

One of the problems that Protestantism addressed at the beginning of the sixteenth century was the gap between monastic piety and the lives of ordinary Christians. The expectations in the Roman church were for the laity, without the support or environment of a monastic order, to maintain levels of holiness that monks and clergy supposedly… 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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Christian Liberty Prevails at Liberty U.

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 23, 2009

Man, is it hard being ideologically pure even with a biblical mandate.

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