Tag Archives: George Washington

That Tears It, I’m Joining the Gospel Coalition

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 25, 2011

There I may be appreciated finally (since it is all about me, after all). First it was Bryan Chapell video”>saying something very 2kish about the United States as a Christian nation. His answer was essentially, no. And that answer goes well with the 2k idea that the only Christian nation that ever existed was the… Read More→

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History Is Not Rocket Science

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

. . . but it’s not theology either. I wonder if they’ll be selling copies of Trueman’s new book at the conference.

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George Washington: Deistic Christian

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

Joe Carter at First Things‘ blog has a helpful summary of one historian’s criteria for evaluating the faith of the United State’s founding statesmen. David Holmes is the author of The Faiths of the Founders and he offers four categories for determining whether a politician was a Deist, an orthodox Christian, or something in between.… Read More→

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Westminster Seminaries’ PR Problem (and Covenant Seminary’s Teflon)

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 5, 2010

Now that Glenn Beck seems to have moved on from the faith of the founders to the faith behind the Pledge of Allegiance, taking stock of the minor celebrity of a Westminster Seminary president courtesy of the talk-show enfomationist is possible. What stands out is how little controversy Peter Lillback’s ideas about the faith of… Read More→

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If George Washington Is Orthodox, What About Barack Obama?

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 3, 2010

Glenn Beck and Peter Lillback have teamed up again to keep the sacred fire of a civil religion burning, a strange fire that appeals to both Republican Mormons and Republican Presbyterians. Soon after his appearance on the Glenn Beck show, Lillback posted an article for the host’s website on whether or not the founders were… Read More→

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If George Washington Gets A Pass, Why Not William Ernest Hocking?

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

Well, one reason is that Washington was the nation’s first president and the U.S. Capitol has a whole lot of hullabaloo about him as a divine-like being (see the image of Washington’s apotheosis). Hocking, by contrast, was merely a professor of philosophy at Harvard University. As positions go, teaching at Harvard is not too shabby,… Read More→

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Can an Endorsement from WTS Be Far Away?

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

The reasons for thinking so are more than plausible.   But on the upside, this may pull the plug on using “Redeemer” when naming congregations. Who said Christian America was dead?

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