Tag Archives: liberalism

Shepherd Stealing?

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 7, 2011

A story at the Revealer provides the latest news on the three bishops, seven priests, and three hundred members of six congregations that have become ordained and opted into new Roman Catholic Ordinariates – subsections of the Roman Catholic Church for disaffected Anglicans. Obviously, sex is a reason why some Anglicans would opt for Rome… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: The Gospel Makes the State Liberal

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 6, 2010

I have been kicking around for a while the way that some have kicked around the doctrine of the two kingdoms. (I myself prefer to call it the spirituality of the church, following the Old School Presbyterian tradition, which receives constitutional status, for instance, in the OPC’s Form of Government (3.4), which reads: “All church… Read More→

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What Glenn Beck and Peter Lillback Need to Know about the Church and Social Justice

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

The church’s mission is not social justice if, by such equity we mean the punishment of wickedness and the reward of virtue. One way to substantiate this assertion is by looking for the word “justice” in the church’s corporate witness. A word search reveals in the Belgic Confession, for instance, that justice appears in the… 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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Which is More Troubling?

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 15, 2010

Charismatics who sway and wave their arms during congregational singing, or evangelicals who think charismatics swaying and waving are a sign of the Spirit? I can’t help but wonder after reading David Neff’s wishing happy birthday to the charimsatic movement in his editorial for Christianity Today. He writes: In April 1960, I was a seventh… Read More→

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