De Regno Christi

De Regno Christi: June 2006:
Heart Religion
Way back on June 7th, Caleb wrote: “Historically the Protestant church has tried to relocate the ground of existence in one of two places: either in a secularized institutional form, usually the state, or in the radically atomized heart of every individual. As a result, the history of the Protestant [...]

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RE: A Protestant Choice… Or Christian Plumbing?
W.H. Chellis
Ok fair enough. I was just being cheeky with Brent. I also think that the point is worthy of consideration.
First, let me say that the impact of Christianity will be different upon the trades or other occupations than it will be on the professions. The [...]

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J.H. Thornwell, Covenanter?
W.H. Chellis
Ok, not a covenanter but Tony Cowley has posted a reminder that it was Thornwell who offered the Christian amendment to the Constitution of the Confederate States of America. This reminds me of another quote from Thornwell taken from his collected writings:
“Our standard of right is that eternal law which God proclaimed [...]

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A Protestant Choice
Rick Gamble
This is my first post on this blog-or any blog for that matter! I should be more computer savvy, but “high technology” when I wrote my dissertation was having one of those “new balls” on an IBM computer.
Anyway, thanks for setting this up, Bill et al. Hey- where are the italics for [...]

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The drawing of this love …
Caleb Stegall
He begins to leave who begins to love,
Many the leaving who know it not,
For the feet of those leaving are affections of the heart:
And yet, they are leaving Babylon.
– Augustine, On the Psalms

There are three conditions which often look alike
Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:
Attachment to self [...]

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J. Gresham Machen
W.H. Chellis
I try to be a thoughtful guy. I do not want to see my friend Darryl Hart going hungry so I try to buy all of his books (unless it mean my family will go hungry and as a Pastor…)
Anyway, I just picked up J.G. Machen’s Selected Shorter Writings, edited [...]

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Hodge, Cromwell, Church and State
Caleb Stegall
“That, while no distinction should be made between various Christian denominations, and perfect liberty of conscience and worship be allowed to all men, nevertheless the Christian magistrate should seek to promote piety as well as civil order”
This leaves all too much unsaid. While I am not generally sympathetic to [...]

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An Old Princeton National Confessionalist
W.H. Chellis
A.A. Hodge sounding like a Reformed Presbyterian in his Outlines of Theology:
15. What are the duties of the officers of the State with regard to the Church
The state is a divine institution, and the officers thereof are God’s ministers, Rom. 13:1-4, Christ the Mediator is, as a revealed fact, [...]

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