RSSEntries from May 2007
A Few Theses
A few theses following up my last post to provoke discussion:
1. Secular observers like Alan Wolfe and Harold Bloom are correct when they suggest, contra theocracy fear mongers like Damon Linker and others, that the liberal soul has nearly completed its march through American Christianity such that the American church is no longer an existential [...]
The Church’s Hesitant Liberals
As regular readers are no doubt aware, my sympathies in this discussion lie with Darryl’s thesis, especially with respect to the dangers of theocratic and Kuyperian dreaming. However, I keep coming up against what appears to me to be a contradiction within that thesis which, as I see it, risks allowing Darryl’s admirable body [...]
RE: The Problem With Westminster’s Two Kingdoms
Darryl Hart admits that Christendom was far better then the Roman Empire, but asks whether America did anything significant. How America fits in post-apostolic redemptive history is a good question to consider. (I think a case can be made that redemptive history continued after New Testament times. Think of the A.D. 70 [...]
Gasoline and economics
Gas prices are killing my family budget. Maybe the government could help by giving a little less help?
Read this article at Human Events by Terry Easton.
RE: The Spirituality of the Church and 1 Cor. 6:1-11
I did not want this comment to be lost in the shuffle.
This is interesting. Darryl, what you say makes sense in the context we live. Our churches are like regional centers. People travel from miles around to gather to worship in our conservative Reformed and Presbyterian Churches. But this is a unique, and maybe unfortunante, [...]
Immigration Amnesty?
President Bush has secured his legacy. The promise of immigration reform has degenerated into amnesty. How should Christians think about the issue?
This is an excerpt from the Understanding the Times Committee Report to the Reformed Presbyterian Synod in 2006. The controversial report was recieved as information. I am the author.
“Wars [...]
Jerry Falwell, R.I.P.
Whatever can be said about how this man represented Christ in the public realm, for good or ill, I think it’s safe to say that an era has passed.
The Problem With Westminster’s Two Kingdoms
Bill Chellis has pointed out that according to St. Paul, ecclesiastical courts should ideally arbitrate disputes between Christians (I Cor. 6:1-11). At the very least we should conclude from this that the sacred/secular dichotomy is an insufficient method for determining what is proper to church versus state oversight. However, Darryl Hart explains that [...]
The Spirituality of the Church and 1 Cor. 6:1-11
I am no opponent of the grand Presbyterian doctrine of the Church’s spirituality. I have a question that in unresolved in my mind.
In 1 Cor. 6:1-11, Paul warns believers not to go to the courts of the world for justice against other believers. Rather, he declares that jurisdiction belongs to the [...]
Binnie on the Imprecatory Psalms
Since the imprecatory psalms were mentioned recently, I thought that some of you would be interested in these selections from William Binnie’s The Psalms: Their History, Teachings, and Use (1886). Binnie was a Scottish RP minister and theologian, until joining the Free Church toward the end of his life. Here are some of his closing [...]