Tag Archives: Peter Lillback

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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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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Lillback on Machen on Beck

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 21, 2010

(Or, why isn’t Christianity and Liberalism outselling Sacred Fire at Amazon?) PCA pastor, Peter Lillback, invoked J. Gresham Machen the other night on the Glenn Beck show to clear up the host’s confusion about social justice and the churches. Beck, of course, thinks “social justice” is code for liberalism, big government, and Obamanian tyranny. But… Read More→

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Putting a Point on Two Kingdoms

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 19, 2010

Posts and comments have been flying fast and furious over at the blog of those two crazy guys, Brothers Tim and David Bayly (they admit that they are “out of their minds”) about two-kingdom theology. It started over a week ago with acrimony surrounding the experimental Calvinism of Jonathan Edwards and Martin Lloyd-Jones, but quickly… Read More→

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