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How Tim Keller Reasons

By D. G. Hart | Published: October 4, 2010

John Piper has a new book on thinking that I wonder if Tim Keller has read. (Do the celebrity figures of organizations like the Gospel Coalition have enough time, apart from their own writing, speaking, and travel to read the work of each other?) The reason for wondering is a tendency that Keller exhibits in… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Reformed and Lutherans Make Music

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 9, 2010

Reformed Protestants these days tend to be absorbed with the Three Forms of Unity and the Westminster Standards and for good reason. These are the confessions of most extant Reformed and Presbyterian communions. But as the current project of Jim Dennison indicates, the confessional output of Protestantism was vast and many of the Reformed churches’… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday: No Getting Around Antinomianism (if you are monergistic)

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

Some union advocates don’t like the theological approach of asking what problem a specific doctrine solves (sorry Matt). But since we are in the arena of salvation, which is supposed to be a remedy for sin, inquiries about effects of certain doctrines, whether doctrinal or personal, seems fair. So as near as I can tell,… Read More→

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Unhuggable Lutherans

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

Garrison Keillor’s Life Among the Lutherans has arrived. It is already rewarding with merriment. Here are a few stanzas from “Lutheran Song.” I was raised in Iowa, went to Concordia, Swedish, I’m proud to say. Got a job at Lutheran Brotherhood. And I never was sick one day. Bought a house in south Minneapolis Over… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo Wednesday

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

As part of oldlife’s continuing effort to assist in clarifying the Reformed faith and overcoming unnecessary disagreements, we will be featuring a number of quotations on the application of redemption from noted Reformed theologians. What drives this series is an effort to understand how the doctrine of union with Christ has or has not functioned… Read More→

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Why Not Lutheran Baptist?

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 1, 2009

Or, why do Baptists want to be Reformed (as opposed to Calvinistic or particular), and why do Reformed Protestants present an object more attractive than Lutherans to Baptists? These questions continue to bump and push around the mush in my mind, especially when I read folks like James White taking exception to Presbyterians who want… Read More→

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