Tag Archives: Reformed Protestantism

Where’s Waldo Wednesday: No Cherry Picking (or Flipping)

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 28, 2011
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Now that I’ve finished all six seasons of the “Larry Sanders Show,” which still comes highly recommended as arguably the funniest and most poignant treatments of celebrity in Hollywood, I am free to flip channels. (Those who haven’t seen the show need to understand that after his monologue, before going to commercial, Larry would say… Read More→

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Old Life Yeast

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 15, 2011

As I mentioned, the current issue of Ordained Servant features the talks that John Muether and I gave at the pre-General Assembly conference that was part of the 75th anniversary festivities for the OPC. Here’s an excerpt from my presentation, “Is the OPC the Church that Calvinists Have Been Waiting For?”: This all too brief… Read More→

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If You Can’t Stand the Polemic, Get Out of the Calvinist Kitchen

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 5, 2011

An arresting little wrinkle in the current popularity of Calvinism among those who don’t baptize their infants and sometimes speak in tongues (and don’t belong to a Reformed church — redundant, I know), is the notion that Calvinists are mean. Justin Taylor is apparently on vacation and has bloggers filling in for him. Jared Wilson’s… 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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Why Do Reformed Think They Are Evangelical?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 18, 2011

If Reformed Protestantism is basically evangelical then how do you account for the major divisions that have occurred among American Presbyterians? The fundamentalist controversy apparently has nothing at stake for the Reformed/evangelical consensus since Machen and other conservative Presbyterians were fighting liberalism and EVERYONE knows that liberalism is bad. (Of course, the problem here is… Read More→

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The Danger of Revivals and of Their Critics

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 8, 2011

Our favorite PCA blogger has once again kicked up a little e-dust with a review of Kenneth Stewart’s new book, Ten Myths about Calvinism: Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition. The review itself is worth reading, as is a subsequent post that explains the author’s perspective (the author being pastor William H. Smith aka… Read More→

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What We Owe Presbyterians (or, Presbyterian Justice)

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

Tim Keller’s new book, Generous Justice, has him giving answers to reporters’ and bloggers’ questions about his argument and reasons for writing. One of those interviews came out recently at Christianity Today, under the title, “What We Owe the Poor.” Part of his strategy, as he explains, is to move people who are not convinced… Read More→

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If Reformed Needs To Be Distinguished from Puritan, Why Not Presbyterian?

By D. G. Hart | Published: June 8, 2010

Some historians of seventeenth-century British Protestantism are dismissive of attempts to distinguish between Puritans and Presbyterians. Part of the problem, of course, involves definitions and categories. When it comes to politics, differences between Presbyterians and Puritans do not become clear until the 1650s with the regime of Oliver Cromwell since Puritans in Parliament joined forces… Read More→

Posted in New World Presbyterianism, Old World Presbyterianism | Also tagged , , , | 9 Comments