Tag Archives: Christian Reformed Church

What Makes Neo-Calvinism Biblical?

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 7, 2010

Carl Trueman wrote a series of posts about how churches go liberal. Among the culprits are celebrity pastors, pastors who publicly reject a denomination or church’s professed standards, and their enablers, pastors who pursue peace and purity of the church to avoid controversy. As the Baylys point out — and this is truly scary when… 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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Worldview Demagoguery

By D. G. Hart | Published: November 1, 2010

One of Dr. K’s fans posted here part of a letter by a Reformed pastor who is also in agreement with the good doctor on the threat that 2k supposedly poses to vigorous and full-fledged Reformed Protestantism. That excerpt read: We agree with Dr. Kloosterman’s assessment of what will happen in the Reformed community, as… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: The Hollowness of Article 36

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

Critics of two-kingdom theology from Dutch backgrounds often cite the Belgic Confession’s teaching on the civil magistrate as grounds for rejection. For those who don’t have a copy of the confession handy, Article 36 reads: And the government’s task is not limited to caring for and watching over the public domain but extends also to… Read More→

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When Tranformationalisms Collide

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

Our friendly but misguided theonomic sparring partner, Rabbi Bret, is a delegate to the Christian Reformed Church’s Synod. Let that sink in. Amazing! True to his voluble ways, Bret is peppering his blog with updates on the affairs of Synod. Having spent four years in the CRC and seen how Reformed-world-and-life-viewism of a left-leaning sort… Read More→

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