RSSEntries from July 2007
American Christendom
I thought I would move this from the comment section:
DGH accuses my view of society of being “very Roman Catholic.†Well, if I had to chose between the tradition from Augustine to Aquinas vs. Kuyper to Dooyweerd, I am going with the former. But my defense is this, did Luther or Calvin want to destroy [...]
An Eye Toward Christendom
Accidental Christendom?
Was Christendom an accidental mistake? Did a shrewd and manipulative Pagan politician named Constantine sully the purity of Apostolic Christianity? This is an increasingly popular reading of history. Is it accurate?
The Problem of Primitivism
Often, Protestants confuse purity with primitivism. What do we mean by primitivism? Have you ever heard [...]
Social Contract liberalism?
I wonder if a missing peace of this discussion revolves around the social contract. Darryl (along with R.Scott Clark and Steve Z.) seem to think of a community or nation as a collection of individuals… the parts greater than the whole. I find this most odd coming from Darryl whose Agrarian tendencies would [...]
Rev. Dr. Harold O.J. Brown, Requiescat In Pace
I missed this news while I was at camp… sorry for the delay.
Dr. Brown was a contributor to the 1986 Colloquy at Geneva College God and Civil Government. A fellow at the Howard Center and a the religion editor at the paleo-conservative Chronicles Magazine published by the Rockford Institute, Dr. Brown was a champion [...]
Transformationalism? Yuck!
It has been a while since I have posted. Synod and other responsiblities have kept me from actively engaging the blog but I have been reading and keeping up.
Reading the blog gives me pause. I feel divided. In Frank Luntz fashion, Darryl has been able to give a pejorative name to advocates [...]
Response to Darryl Hart: The Gracious Cultural Mandate
Darryl Hart writes: “by this point in the blog, surely you can see ‘how I get around the fact that the cultural mandate was reaffirmed as part of the redemptive promises…’ I don’t know how I could be clearer. You disagree, of course. But really, you don’t see how I separate the cultural mandate from [...]
In Defense of a Theology of Cross and Glory: Part 4
A Non-redemptive Providential Reign of Christ?
“The word of the Lord came to me: ‘Take silver and gold from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon. Go the same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah. Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and [...]
In Defense of a Theology of Cross and Glory: Part 3
O GOD, merciful Father, who despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as are sorrowful; Mercifully assist our prayers which we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us; and graciously hear us, that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil [...]
Response to Darryl Hart: The Radicality of Christian Obedience
Darryl, you write: “Andrew, I’d be glad to answer these reflections if I weren’t already asking for you to answer them.”
What?! I have been providing answers to this (admittedly) difficult question. The “hard sayings” of Jesus are called such because they are not easy for anyone who recognizes the validity of natural [...]
The Ubiquity of Roman Catholicism
In response to a comment I made about Christianity’s cultural accomplishments, Darryl Hart writes: “Who is this ‘we,’ white Calvinist man (read: Andrew)? Could it be that the we is Roman Catholicism? And could it be that all those good things in Rome came with the cost of missing what was most important — [...]