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Hart on Leithart and Grudem

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 22, 2011
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Don Frank kindly prodded my memory about excerpting part of my review essay on two new books on Christianity and politics, one by Peter Leithart on Constantine and Wayne Grudem on the United States. The full review is here. What follows is part of the review. The vast literature on religion and politics summons up… Read More→

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Worldview Politics

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 31, 2011

As I have come to understand it, a Reformed world-and-life-view is a hard outlook to acquire. It starts and requires regeneration by the Holy Spirit, or so it would seem since a worldview is a basic reality to a person’s existence. Seeing through the glasses of faith, accordingly, requires having faith, something that comes only… Read More→

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Two Kingdoms, Two Liberties

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 4, 2011

And now for a different English perspective on political independence. This one comes from the men whom many conservative Presbyterians believe to be the “founding fathers” of Presbyterianism — namely, the Westminster Divines (not to be confused with the divines who teach at Westminster Seminary California). As near as I can tell, without yet sufficient… Read More→

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If the Gospel Coalition Embraces It, Will 2k Lose Its Edge?

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

One of the smarter moves by 2k proponents was David VanDrunen’s to publish his sequel to Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms with Crossway, the firm with the most direct ties to the Gospel Coalition, thanks to Justin Taylor’s footprint in both organizations. So far 2k has come into print through outlier publishers, such as… Read More→

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Act One, Scene Two: Kloosterman on Luther as Neo-Calvinist

By D. G. Hart | Published: October 25, 2010

I would not have thought it possible. “It” in this case is an effort to disassociate Martin Luther from two-kingdom theology. Most Reformed Protestants beyond the age of accountability understand intuitively, it seems, that Lutheranism goes wobbly in its Christian teaching because of the dualism that haunts it, thanks to Luther’s two-kingdom theology. Furthermore, when… Read More→

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Act One, Scene One: Kloosterman, Worldview, and the Reformed Confession

By D. G. Hart | Published: October 20, 2010

The indefatigable slayer of 2k dragons, Nelson Kloosterman, has started a review series of David VanDrunen’s recent book on natural law and the two kingdoms. In his opening essay – will this one grow to twenty-one installments like his series on Klineanism and theonomy – he identifies the issue that makes VanDrunen’s position so alarming… Read More→

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Two Kingdom Tuesday On Where’s Waldo Wednesday

By D. G. Hart | Published: September 1, 2010

I have encountered what seems to me a strange notion — in several places where Federal Vision Worldviewism has left its mark — that the differences between Reformed and Anglicans are not that great, and that historically speaking it is wrong to distinguish them. Along with this perspective usually comes great regard for Richard Hooker… Read More→

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Two Kingdom Tuesday: No Confusion, No Massacre

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

August 24 is the anniversary of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, a time when in 1572 the hostilities between Roman Catholics and Huguenots reached historic proportions. Thousands of Protestants lost their lives in a string of anti-Reformed riots, aimed a eliminating the “heretics.” According to Philip Benedict, the Massacre marked a turning point in the… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: More Spiritual (and Less Corinthian) than Thou

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 17, 2010

Contemporary Reformed Protestants are divided on their reading of the Reformation. The 2k advocates find in Calvin and others precedent for the spirituality of the church, that is, the idea that the kingdom of Christ is not to be identified with the state or the civil order but with the visible church which possesses the… Read More→

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Two-Kingdom Tuesday: James Jordan for President (of the U.S.A.)

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

A constant them in objections to two-kingdom teaching is that it fails to follow the Reformers even while claiming their imprimatur. As the Rabbi Brets, the Baylys, and the Wilsonians like to remind us, the magisterial reformation was just that – a reformation conducted by magistrates, some of whom were the ministers who were themselves… Read More→

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