RSSTalking Two Kingdoms
W.H. Chellis
Sorry for the long silence… it took a while to convalesce from the FV discussion!
We are cooking up future “group” discussions and if there are topics you would like to see highlighted please let us know.
Until then we will be having a slight shift of focus. Since the inception of the DRC blog the “background” discussion has focused on the duty of corporate confession of Christ.
Starting today and for the forseeable future the background discussion will focus on the great Protestant doctrine of the Two Kingdoms. My immediately preceeding post should be taken as salvo # 1.
Bring it!
Rusty O.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
How can two kingdoms peaceably exist within any degree of proximity? What is the historical case for this being a possibility?
Rusty
W.H. Chellis
November 9th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Rusty- did you read my article A Kingdom Not of the World?
I will flesh out more in the next few months.
Still, in terms of history… the whole history of Christendom from Augustine’s two cities to the Medieval two swords, to the Scottish 2nd Book of Discipline’s two kingdoms reflect various paradigms that are reflect a two kingdom outlook.
Rusty O.
November 9th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
I don’t dispute the predominance of the two kingdom outlook. That’s the problem, it’s pervasive, and no one seems to see that it has always ended in death.
Here’s the proposition: I’d like to argue that the state, as a mock incorporation of men is inherently competitive with the church (even if the state is “Christian” if we grant that christian can be an adjective- if we tried “Jesusy” instead maybe Kuyperianism wouldn’t be so cool).
-thanks