RSSEntries from April 2007
Taking Christian Liberty Seriously
If you apply the adjective Christian to the activity of statecraft do you really deny Christian Liberty? The reason for asking is that the word Christian connotes norms and prescription. To use it with any activity is to imply a moral or religious duty. In which case, how much disagreement is really [...]
What makes us a nation?
I would be curious to hear everyone’s, and especially Darryl’s, response to this gag-inducing bit of propaganda.
The Devil Loves Air-conditioning
One more post before I shove off for a while. I wanted to say something clearly positive about the Reformed tradition, and about my own beloved Covenanters in particular, lest I should be taken for cad and ingrate.
I do think many of these protestant particularisms, like the Covenanters, served as powerful bulwarks in the [...]
Machen Who?
Darryl has been pressing the claims of J. Gresham Machen. A powerful ally indeed. So I have gone back to reread Machen. Dr. Hart is the premier Machen scholar and so I suspect he will be able to help me.
In the past, here on DRC, I have quoted from Machen’s [...]
What is to be done?
This post was originally a comment to the Constitutional Church thread, but it was long enough I went ahead and made it a new post.
I am glad the discussion is turning to foundational issues and questions. One of which must be, is half-way from modernity far enough?
Tony, I appreciate and like a great deal [...]
Perils of the Constitutional Church and recovering friendship as the first political virtue
But Littlefield’s great value was as a spiritual example. Despite his strange learnings he was as strict a Presbyterian and as firm a Republican as George F. Babbitt. He confirmed the business men in the faith. Where they knew only by passionate instinct that their system of industry and manners was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield [...]
Can we have Christianity apart from the Church?
One of the curious aspects I’ve found in the discussion so far is a fairly widespread agreement that church and state should be separate. This concession has often been combined with a view that despite the differences between church and state it is still possible to have Christian political principles or Christian norms for [...]
RE:Does anyone really read the WCF
Darryl, there you have it.
Christ is Lord over both secular and sacred. We are agreed.
You insist that Christ is as much Lord over Saddam Hussein or Hilary Clinton. I say Amen. He was Lord over Nero and thus Christians were called to submit to their secular rulers in all things lawful [...]
Does Anyone Really Read the WCF?
In another string of comments, one correspondent (I’ll withhold the name to protect the guilty) writes that the kingdom of Christ is broader than the church. That may be good 20th-century Dutch Reformed biblical theology, but it makes hay of the actual words of the Westminster Divines.
25.2 reads: “The visible church, which [...]
What the world needs now …
Is the ransom theory of the atonement, properly understood.
In some ways, Christendom reflects the impact of the ransom theory, and the arid, apolitical version of Christianity hawked by some (even in the name of Old School Presbyterianism) focuses on the satisfaction theory without sufficient interaction with the ransom theory.
Get me? Thoughts?