RSSEntries Tagged as 'Hart's Secular Faith'
Can a king acknowledge the facts?
At last! I’ve managed my way through the site technology to post! (My incompetence with “logging on” to this site has heretofore hindered my input, but I’ve been enjoying the discussion even if inept at posting!)
I have a rather basic question for which I’d be interested in a “Hartian response”. But first, let me underscore [...]
An uncomfortable spiritual aspect of politics?
While fearing that I will be called a kook, I think it is important to raise a question that has not been discussed.
Is there an uncomfortable spiritual diminsion to politics that has not been noted? The book of Revelation speaks of the Beast (at least one of them) as a civil power under [...]
The Keys to the Expansive Kingdom
Several comments have registered discomfort with my (and the WCF’s) narrow construction of the kingdom of Christ. Some in fact have argued that the kingdom extends beyond the church.
I wonder if those who make such claims have considered what this view does to the doctrine of the keys to the kingdom. [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?