Since some of the comments of late are echoing the union-with-Christ-centric reading of Reformed soteriology that animated many posts here, I offer a refresher on Calvin’s understanding of first-importance matters when he was explaining to… More
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Where's Waldo Wednesday: No Cherry Picking (or Flipping)
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.… More
Where's Waldo Wednesday: Can You Handle Calvin on Union?
The Frenchman’s discussion of union at the beginning of book three of the Institutes is slight compared to his treatment of union when explaining the Lord’s Supper. I have often wondered why the unionists who… More
Where's Waldo Wednesday: What's At Stake?
The recent show at Reformed Forum on union with Christ has generated a lively exchange (some of which spilled over to Old Life). As he did at Old Life, David has produced a number of… More
Where's Waldo Wednesday: Can Biblical Theologians Do Historical Theology?
In my ongoing search for historical evidence to prove that union with Christ is crucial to Reformed Protestantism and distinguishes the Reformed tradition from Lutheranism, I did a word search in the Canons of Dort.… More
Where's Waldo Wednesday: Precision Puh-leeze
So why is it that justification prioritists (JPs) regularly receive the charge of making justification the CAUSE of sanctification when in fact they don’t? But to the unionists’ ear, to assert the logical priority of… More
Where's Waldo Wednesday: The Power to Confuse
Nick Batzig has a useful post on union with Christ that I believe illustrates what some people find confusing about the doctrine — at least I do. I interact with this post not to single… More
Where's Waldo Wednesday: Dazed and Confused
Why is it that discussions of the law and sanctification invariably circle back to union with Christ? My own hunch, expressed several times, is that union becomes the way to cement sanctification to justification, especially… More
Where’s Waldo (A Day After) Wednesday: Someone Needs to Call A Union Summit
Over at Justin Taylor’s blog comes word that Dane Ortlund has published an article on the relationship between justification and sanctification in the writings of Bavinck and Berkouwer. The summary point is as follows: .… More
Where's Waldo Wednesday: Can Union Comfort the Way Justification Does?
The following passage from Luther’s daily readings left me thinking: What more could God do? How could a heart restrain itself from being happy, glad, and obedient in God and Christ? What work or suffering… More
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