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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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Anne Rice Quits Christianity and Endorses Bret McAtee

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 4, 2010

I feel somewhat responsible for Ms. Rice’s recent deconversion. At the risk of name dropping, let me explain. Back in 2007 during the Democratic primaries Rice wrote a very positive endorsement of my radically 2k book, A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State. In that same post at her blog,… Read More→

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Two Kingdom Tuesday: Transformational Vigilantism

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

I keep my finger of the pulse of anti-2k venom with the help of my CRC friend, Rabbi Bret. The easiest way is to use his handy subject category links. Bret’s designation of choice is “R2K Virus (Radical Two Kingdom Theology)” – when radical and viral alone will not do. But sometimes Bret is revealing… Read More→

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Two Kingdom Tuesday: Macadam or Concrete?

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 13, 2010

Does Christianity involve a conviction about roads and their construction? To hear some critics of 2k, the problem with distinguishing between a spiritual and an earthly kingdom is that it creates a vacuum of neutrality. Something is either sacred/religious or secular/non-religious. By granting a sphere that is not religious is to create a bogey that… Read More→

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Koyzis Sees the Light?

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

At the First Things blog for evangelicals (is this a form of putting born-agains in a ghetto?) — Evangel — David Koyzis, frequent critic of 2k theology, raised objections about celebrating July 4th in church. More than two decades ago I walked into the building of a megachurch near Chicago on the Sunday nearest the… Read More→

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Where’s Waldo (A Day After) Wednesday

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

What you gotta like about this quote is the close proximity of justification and two-kingdom political theology. If water, the Spirit, and justification are what get you into the Kingdom of God, how exactly does that work for accounting? And the author even concedes that the claim is “hard” to accept, which might account for… Read More→

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Hard or Soft, The Anti-2K Position Displays the Judaic Folly

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

(Or, how to blow Dr. Ortlund’s mind.) The hits keep coming. The line grows of people wanting to take a swipe at the two kingdom doctrine (while the silence on Lillback’s strange fire of Sacred Fire is deafening). A while back, Comment magazine published a piece by David Koyzis that critiques the 2k position, and… Read More→

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Do They Really Want What They Want?

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

Steven Wedgeworth over at Credenda Agenda has registered a critique of two-kingdom theology that uses David VanDrunen’s new book on natural law and the two kingdoms as the object of critique. Some of the usual federal vision suspects have lined up to promote Wedgeworth’s piece. Rabbi Bret writes: Wedgeworth also spends time exposing how the… Read More→

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Has President Obama Been Reading the Baylys?

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

Sometime ago, to ridicule two-kingdom theology even more, the Baylys ran a post on whether the resurrection has any public policy implications. Apparently, Obama took the bait and issued remarks at the White House Easter prayer breakfast that outlined the implications of the resurrection for civil society. (By the way, how do you spot the… Read More→

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