Tag Archives: Lutheranism

More than You Bargained For?

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 9, 2012
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If a person living in the United States discovers that he prefers democracy to other forms of political governance, glaces at the major parties and discovers a Democratic Party, and decides that’s the party for him, he may have made a legitimate decision. But wouldn’t he want to find out something about the party’s past… Read More→

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Young, Restless and Lutheran?

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

If you read Collin Hanson’s book on the young Calvinists you will discover that of Dort’s five points the young and restless ones affirm at most two of the five. You will also see that what drives young Calvinists has less to do with the five points of Calvinsim than with one big point –… Read More→

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Singing Lutheran Theology from a Presbyterian Hymnal

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 28, 2011

I myself have never been impressed by the adage that ordinary believers learn more theology from hymns than from sermons or teaching. But recent frequent singing of “The Law of God Is Good and Wise” (1863) has led me to hope that the adage is true. Here is the text: The law of God is… Read More→

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Did Warfield Make the World Safe for Piper?

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 14, 2011

Are Lutherans different from Reformed Protestants? Duh! The odd aspect of the arguments that distinguish Lutheranism from Reformed Protestantism is that the arguers don’t seem to be so conscientious when it comes to Baptists. Are Baptists Calvinistic? Some are. Lots aren’t. So when it comes to drawing distinctions among Protestants why the urge to draw… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 22, 2010

I am still wondering about the advisability of turning union into a polemical doctrine that divides Reformed Protestants and Lutherans. Benjamin Warfield supplies support for that wonder. CALVINISM AND LUTHERANISM It is unfortunate that a great body of the scientific discussion which, since Max Goebel (“Die religiose Eigenthumlichkeit der lutherischen und der reformirten Kirchen,” Bonn,… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Antinomianism, False and True

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

One of the more arresting claims in recent theological discussions is that an emphasis on the forensic nature of justification can nurture antinomianism. This claim looks amazingly unreal given the traction that various forms of transformationalism have among conservative Reformed Protestants – from Doug Wilson’s defense of Constantinianism, the Baylys’ war with Reformed “pacifists” in… Read More→

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Punch Drunk on Baylys

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 22, 2010

In the many to and fro’s of kicking around two-kingdom theology with those crazy guys, Tim and David Bayly, I have wondered why their rhetoric so often starts and ends Limbaughesque. For instance, here’s a riff on two-kingdom theology and Keller-wannabes that would make Rush proud: It’s one of the supreme ironies of our reformed… Read More→

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Machen, the Educational Ecumenist

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 19, 2009

So Machen thought highly of Christian day schools among the Dutch Reformed. He also thought that public schools had their place. And to round out the picture, here he is on Lutheran education: . . . it should, I think, be made much harder than it now is to enter the Church: the confession of… Read More→

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