RSSEntries Tagged as 'Two Kingdoms'
Rethinking National Confession
To the RPCNA I owe my new life in Christ. She is my mother and I dearly love her.
In loyalty to my mother I have tried to work through her doctrine of the mediatorial Kingship of Christ over the nations and to defend its 20th Century application National Confessionalism. I have always found [...]
VanDrunen on Two Kingdoms and Ethics
Here’s a link to a recent lecture given by Dr. David VanDrunen (WSC) on the doctrines of the two kingdoms and the ordo salutis. It’s about 38 minutes long.
On the Kingdom of God
Matt Tuininga is student at Westminster California with an interest in political theology. He is David VanDrunen’s research assistant.
DRC is happy to give him a plug and looks forward to reading him in the future. Here is his essay On the Kingdom of God at Creed:or: Chaos.
Christ’s Two Kingdoms Administered
A Fond Farewell
This month we conclude the De Regno Christi series with a final look at the Protestant doctrine of the two kingdoms and how it relates to Christ’s mediatorial reign.
Two Kingdoms, One King
Abraham Kuyper famously declared, “there is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus Christ does not declare, [...]
Christ’s Kingship: Both Sacred and Secular
Christ is Lord
The Apostle John wrote to a church suffering persecution. He comforted those in distress with the simple but fundamental principle: Christ is Lord. John wrote to the churches:
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are [...]
The Empire Strikes Back?
Huckabee’s pulpit squad better beware. It seems the IRS is on to them.
What Caesar gives he can take away. Best to mind your p’s and q’s.
Augustinian Antithesis
The Eternal City’s Fall
In the year 410 A.D., the city of Rome was sacked and plundered by Alaric the Goth. The fall of Rome, the Eternal City, shocked the world and began the chain of events that culminated in the collapse of classical civilization. Expressing the lamentation of many Christians, Jerome wept and [...]
Talking Two Kingdoms
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” [...]
A Kingdom Not of This World
Colliding Kingdoms
In 1596 James Melville, a leader of the Scottish Kirk, declared that King James the 6th of Scotland:
was God’s silly vassal and that there are two kings and two kingdoms in Scotland. There is Christ Jesus the King, and His kingdom the Kirk, whose subject King James VI is, and of whose kingdom, not [...]
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 [...]