Tag Archives: transformationalism

Any Tie to John Frame?

By D. G. Hart | Published: December 31, 2011
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I wish so, but I don’t see one. Also, if a connection between the Baylys and the Gospel Coalition existed, I’d like to find it. But I can’t. Old Life is a responsible blog, after all. Though there is a Tim Keller reference here that is not of my doing (mmmmmmm TKNY). The Baylys have… Read More→

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Confessional Intuition

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 6, 2011

Worldviews are overrated. Intuition matters. At least, that’s the impression readers may take away from a thoughtful review of a new book on philanthropy by Jeff Cain, a former colleague and now the co-founder of American Philanthropic. The book in question is Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World,… Read More→

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Toxic Religious Assets

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 19, 2011

Americans don’t pay much attention to the National Council of Churches anymore. In my classes when I ask students if they have heard of the NCC I usually receive blank stares. (For what it’s worth, not many students or Americans pay much attention to the National Association of Evangelicals.) Back in the day, memos from… Read More→

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Introducing the Old School Presbyterians: Stuart Robinson

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 3, 2011

I’ve been wondering. Do contemporary Reformed Protestants read Old School Presbyterians — at all? Over at Green Baggins where a fiesty exchange of slings and arrows — count ‘em, over 1,300 comments and climbing — over 2k has diverted what could have been a good conversation about the value of polemical theology I posted the… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Why It Goes with Two-Kingdom Tuesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 10, 2010

Our mid-western correspondent alerted me to a piece over at American Vision which is critical of the recent resurgence of Calvinism — as in Young, Restless, and Reformed — for regarding personal salvation as the essence of Calvinism. For the author, TULIP is well and good. It affirms God’s sovereignty. But it hardly covers what… Read More→

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When Tranformationalisms Collide

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

Our friendly but misguided theonomic sparring partner, Rabbi Bret, is a delegate to the Christian Reformed Church’s Synod. Let that sink in. Amazing! True to his voluble ways, Bret is peppering his blog with updates on the affairs of Synod. Having spent four years in the CRC and seen how Reformed-world-and-life-viewism of a left-leaning sort… Read More→

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If Only Kuyperians Were As Reasonable as Godfrey

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

Over at Confessional Outhouse, RubeRad (what’s up with those names?) has a quotation from Bob Godfrey’s address at the Westminster California conference on Christ and culture. Here it is: As is often true in the history of the church, we [Kuyperians and 2K-ers] may not all perfectly agree what the Bible says, but I think… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: More Machen

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

Very different is the conception of faith which prevails in the liberal Church. According to modern liberalism, faith is essentially the same as “making Christ Master” in one’s life; at least it is by making Christ Master in the life that the welfare of men is sought. But that simply means that salvation is thought… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Pauline Indignation

By D. G. Hart | Published: March 12, 2010

Have you noticed lately what tends to make conservative Protestants mad? In public life we see a lot of consternation about abortion, gay marriage, the thievery of the federal government, and outrage over secularists. And let’s not forget a whole lot of anger doled out upon two-kingdom theology and the spirituality of the church. (If… Read More→

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Man, Life In Geneva Must Have Been Rough

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

If Calvinism is tranformational, why was Calvin so otherworldly? Let the aim of believers in judging the mortal life, then, be that while they understand it to be of itself nothing but misery, they may with greater eagerness and dispatch betake themselves wholly to meditate upon that eternal life to come. When it comes to… Read More→

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