Tag Archives: Federal Vision

Say Hello to Nelson Kloosterman, James Jordan, Tim Keller, and David Bayly

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 26, 2011

Theonomy and R. J. Rushdoony have never been so popular. Ever since Ryan Lizza’s piece on Michele Bachman in the New Yorker appeared, bloggers and columnists had been taking shots at the journalist for allegedly writing a hit piece on the congresswoman from Minnesota. The latest to weigh in is Michael Gerson, George W. Bush’s… Read More→

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Is Hank Hill Wiser than David and Tim Bayly?

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

The Brothers Bayly have stirred up the pot again by arguing that Tim Keller is a greater threat than Doug Wilson and the Federal Vision to the PCA. Calculating the heinousness of error is indeed a judgment call, but the Shorter Catechism does indicate that some sins are more grievous than others. As folks who… Read More→

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Glenn Beck, the Kingdom, and Me (per usual)

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 2, 2011

Criticisms of 2k theology keep coming and a major source of opposition is the distinction between Christ’s rule as redeemer in distinction from his rule as creator. For some, this kind of division within Christ could wind up in the error of Nestorianism. And yet, I wonder how you avoid Rob Bell’s error of universalism… Read More→

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Huh?!?

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 31, 2011

Over at Ref21, Ligon Duncan supplies a drive-by quote from Herman Bavinck that the Mississippi pastor directs against John Williamson Nevin. Here is the the Bavinck quote: In a comparatively sound church life, it is possible to assume that as a rule the children of the covenant will be born again in their youth and… Read More→

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Barefoot, Pregnant, and Unplugged

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 18, 2011

To say that the Bayly brothers have a one track mind would be to traffic in innuendo. I do not know them well enough to speculate on their sexual desires. I presume that as ministers of the gospel and as husbands their sexual passions are properly regulated. But in a sense they do have sex… Read More→

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Talk About Justification Priority

By D. G. Hart | Published: November 2, 2010

Peter Leithart has posted an excerpt from his Reformation Day sermon. I suppose I should find this encouraging to see a man who does not wear tradition readily, but enjoys the “creative tension” that he learned at least while studying at Westminster Seminary, affirm the blessings of Protestantism. But like so much that Leithart writes,… Read More→

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Two Kingdom Tuesday On Where’s Waldo Wednesday

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

I have encountered what seems to me a strange notion — in several places where Federal Vision Worldviewism has left its mark — that the differences between Reformed and Anglicans are not that great, and that historically speaking it is wrong to distinguish them. Along with this perspective usually comes great regard for Richard Hooker… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: More Spiritual (and Less Corinthian) than Thou

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 17, 2010

Contemporary Reformed Protestants are divided on their reading of the Reformation. The 2k advocates find in Calvin and others precedent for the spirituality of the church, that is, the idea that the kingdom of Christ is not to be identified with the state or the civil order but with the visible church which possesses the… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: You Say Klinean, I Say Repristination

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

In the current issue of the Westminster Theological Journal, William Evans from Esrkine College, has an article offering a taxonomy of the current debates over the doctrine of union. In the repristinationist wing he puts Westminster California. He even specifies that the revisionism of Shepherd and Federal Vision provoked the repristinationist effort. The other group… Read More→

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This and That

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 24, 2010

David Strain makes a very good point about the doctrine of the two thingies: If the Kingdom is not advanced by ‘the sword’, that is, by means of physical coercion, but the God ordained role of the civil magistrate is to use the sword to enforce the rule of law, how can the Christian’s work… Read More→

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