De Regno Christi

Dave Guthrie Thanks to Bill and Bill for the opportunity to participate in this blog. I hope that I can offer a few things along the way; I’ll certainly be a glad recipient of others’ wisdom. First time through, several thoughts/observations/questions came to my mind as I read the early posts on the nascent blog. [...]

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Calvin AND Burke W.H. Chellis Dr. Hart has wisely pointed us to John Calvin’s defense of the spirituality of Christ’s Kingdom. We would be fools to ignor Calvin’s profound insights. Indeed, to all that Dr. Hart has quoted, I say a vigerous Amen. And when Dr. Hart is finished, I continue to say Amen to [...]

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A Massively Possessive Experience? Caleb Stegall I find myself in a great deal of sympathy with Darryl’s post below, though I approach these topics as a trained lawyer rather than a trained theologian (is there really a difference?). Covenanters have historically been tempted by a kind of Gnostic immanentization of the eschaton through their particular [...]

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Calvin or Burke? D.G. Hart Burke and Eliot are fine for thinking about cult and culture, but since this is a blog on Christ’s mediatorial kingship perhaps a theologian from the Reformed tradition would be a better guide to the specific consideration of Christ executing the office of a king. Calvin in book 2, ch. [...]

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Wow… has Pat been reading the Witness? W.H. Chellis Ok he might not have recieved his copy but… did anyone catch Pat Buchanan’s editorial Brave New World http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50472 yesterday? Pat writes: “Writing in that fateful year, 1939, T.S. Eliot, intellectual and Christian, admonished his contemporaries who had placed their faith in the triumph of democracy. [...]

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Edmund Burke as Christian Statesman W.H. Chellis Yesterday, I suggested Edmund Burke as the most important defender of Christ’s mediatorial Kingship over the nations in the 18th Century. Today, I thought I might say a word in defense of that pick. Ok, I admit it… I was a fan of Edmund Burke long before I [...]

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Superstars W.H. Chellis I am going to get things started. In this month’s article I suggest that the Mediatorial Kingship of Jesus Christ over the nations is not as distinctive a doctrine as Reformed Presbyterians often assume. Therefore, I submit ecumenical list of the most important champions of Christ’s Mediatorial Kingship over the nations of [...]

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