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Eucatastrophe: A Maundy Thursday Mediation

Posted in Misc., Nature and Grace, Theology, Uncategorized on April 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »

O Happy Fault!   I have been thinking about the fall.  What tragedy.  Adam had it all.  A pretty wife (who was naked all the time), an productive farm, and a good job (farmer, priest, king).  Adam never got sick, had no fear of death, and walked with God in familial communion.  He was the [...]

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In Defense of a Theology of Cross and Glory: Part 4

Posted in Hart's Secular Faith, Nature and Grace, Two Kingdoms on July 10, 2007 | 27 Comments »

Andrew Matthews 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 set [...]

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Those Wild, Wild, Whiggish Covenanters got me again!

Posted in Misc., Nature and Grace, Spirituality of the Church, Two Kingdoms on June 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »

My time as Chairman of the RPC Synod’s Committee for the Understanding the Times came to a very final conclusion at this evening’s session of Synod. My attempt to send the committee to its eternal slumber was defeated by a vote of 53-47. This was the last year of my term. For what it is [...]

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In Defense of a Theology of Cross and Glory: Part 1

Posted in Natural Law, Nature and Grace, Two Kingdoms on June 26, 2007 | 8 Comments »

Andrew Matthews “To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations…just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star…To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame [...]

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A Reformed Scholastic on Natural Law

Posted in Natural Law, Nature and Grace on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Here is a fine example of a Reformed Thomist dealing with natural law.

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Nature and Grace RedivivusW.H. ChellisDr. R. Sc…

Posted in Corporate Confession, Natural Law, Nature and Grace on February 1, 2007 | 9 Comments »

Nature and Grace Redivivus W.H. Chellis Dr. R. Scott Clark from the Heidelblog commented on re: Rehabilitating Theonomy: This is an interesting and significant discussion for which we’re all grateful. At the end of your post you say, however, that grace both restores and “perfects” nature. Did you mean to say the latter? Didn’t the [...]

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The Paradox of Christianity and CultureW.H. Chell…

Posted in Conservatism, Corporate Confession, Natural Law, Nature and Grace on September 15, 2006 | 9 Comments »

The Paradox of Christianity and Culture W.H. Chellis From the introduction to Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson: “In many of Dawson’s books, there is a clear tension between the Christian virtue of hope and anxiety over the present world situation. Dawson expresses more doubt about the chances for a [...]

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On Grace and Nature…W.H. ChellisDarryl Hart w…

Posted in Nature and Grace on September 6, 2006 | 2 Comments »

On Grace and Nature… W.H. Chellis Darryl Hart writes: “If you really think that grace perfects nature, then we may have finally arrived at the chief difference (at least for me). I don’t think Calvinism is compatible with that construction of grace and nature (H. Richard Niebuhr didn’t think so), nor am I sure about [...]

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