Tag Archives: Roman Catholicism

Wishing Evangelicals Would Leave Politics Alone

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 12, 2012
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Before all of the anti-dualists and despisers of otherworldliness get riled up, the point of this post is not for evangelicals or any kind of Christian to abdicate their duties as citizens. Instead, it is that injecting religion into politics has neither helped politics nor aided religion. Two recent confirmations of this come from Mikelmann’s… Read More→

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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 Roman Catholic Version

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 28, 2010

The contemporary vocal critics of modern 2k often remark that everyone is 2k, meaning that it is wrong for modern 2k advocates to paint them as 1k. The Roman Catholic expression of 2k doctrine qualifies that claim in important ways. First, it suggests that not everyone is 2k since the Eastern Church allowed itself to… Read More→

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The New York Times: A Better Way?

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 3, 2010

Many conservative Presbyterians and Reformed believe – along with the idea that no neutrality exists – that secular America is intolerant of red-blooded Christianity. The current alarm over gay marriage and abortion on demand is evidence of the Reformed-sky-is-falling-world-and-life-view. Could it be that consolation might come to these upset souls from the secularized (as opposed… Read More→

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Joining the Club?

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

“Trey” may think that Carl Trueman puts it more graciously than we have, but the Lord Protector of Westminster Seminary has another stellar post about the significance of The King’s College’s new president, a Roman Catholic, Dinesh D’Souza. Trueman writes (but the entire post is worth reading): OK. So evangelicalism writ large verges on the… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Anathema

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 16, 2010

CANON XI.-If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them; or even that the… Read More→

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Machen on Roman Catholic Indoctrination

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 22, 2009

Since the Christian school advocates are invoking Machen, here is one more relevant quotation that may clarify his views on American liberty and how it affects folks from different faiths even if they happen to be in the Protestant majority. Since Machen refers in the following to debates over public education, the quotation may also… Read More→

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