“Christian Nationalism”: Dump the Term While We Still Can
I am opposed to adopting or using the term “Christian Nationalism” as a response to the present anti-Christian crusade.
The term Christian Nationalist sends the wrong message to both those outside the church and those inside the church. Therefore, I simply do not use the term. I prefer the term Christendom. When I speak of Christendom, surprisingly most people in the church today have never heard of it. I find this ironic because America... Continue Reading
From Silence to Complexification to Capitulation
Why evangelical surrender on LGBTQ is almost never a surprise.
…the movement is unmistakable, and it is unidirectional. Evangelicals who set down the path toward LGBTQ acceptance rarely turn around and head back in the other direction. And once the revisionist jump—that really wasn’t a jump—is complete, the tolerance and inclusion don’t usually last long. Sex is too powerful a thing to allow for competing... Continue Reading
Professor Pushback, Perkins and R2K
“Judicial laws so far as they have in them the general or common equity of the law of nature are moral and therefore binding in conscience as the moral law.”
For Perkins, the “substance” of these judicial laws that were given to the Jews binds not just “Jews but also Gentiles…” Contrary to the R2K consensus, these judicial laws are universally binding not because their foundational equity is to be equated with, and reduced to, natural law without remainder, but because these judicial laws expand... Continue Reading
The Wisdom of the Cross is Infinitely Superior to the Wisdom of Psychology, Part Two
By its very nature, worldly psychology is antagonistic to the cross since it exalts man’s wisdom and diminishes Jesus, the very source of truth.
Christian psychology is flawed because it reveals a loyalty to man’s wisdom as opposed to a pure, childlike trust in the Word of God. It is nothing short of a subtle strategy of Satan to keep the gospel of Christ hidden from men by cloaking it within the arrogance of human wisdom. When human wisdom... Continue Reading
In Defense of Slippery-Slope Arguments
They identify a structural tendency of contemporary progressive thought.
Someone accused by his interlocutor of using the slippery-slope argument should reply that the debate should not focus on the notion that cause A could lead to cause B—which is unremarkable—but rather, on how likely it is that cause A could lead to cause B. If recent experience is any indication, the slippery slope against which that... Continue Reading
The Problem with Aquinas
The recent enthusiasm that many Protestants have shown for Thomas Aquinas is a mistake; they do not serve the church well by praising and commending him to members.
In summary, the recent enthusiasm that many Protestants have shown for Thomas is a mistake. The church has not been well-served by its eminent men lavishing praise upon an idolater and commending him to her members. There are many among us, especially young men, who are zealous to learn all that they might about the... Continue Reading
Critical Theory and The Gospel
Critical theorists have in their various convictions, arguments, and theories a kind of echo of various Christian themes—even if in critical theory they are often distorted, twisted, and rejected.
What critical theory offers is—in its own way—a kind of alternative theology or religious vision of the world. The various themes of critical theory can be seen or understood as themes, convictions, insights, hunches that all in various ways can be related to traditional Christian themes or doctrines. My contention is that when we read... Continue Reading
Why Generation Z is Drawn to Roman Catholicism
They are attracted by a perceived connection to history and the spiritual world that simply cannot be found in the halls of government schools or the annals of social media.
Members of Generation Z who desire a sense of transcendence in their worship may simply need to look a bit harder. By fostering a dogmatic commitment to the authority and sufficiency of Scripture while retaining a deep respect for church history, much of evangelical, conservative, Reformed Christianity has managed to guard itself from the spirit... Continue Reading
Rosaria Butterfield: “I Reject the False Teaching of Revoice/Side B Theology”
“I choose the truth of Biblical Christianity over the tribalism of Side B/Revoice theology.”
After we are justified by God, we can never return to Adam. What does this mean for someone like me who lived as a lesbian for a decade and believed I was gay? It means that homosexuality is part of my biography, not my nature. My nature is securely chained in Christ (Colossians 3:10-20). What... Continue Reading
Thriving in Babylon with Augustine
The main point is that Augustine sees all of world history as the history of the City of God and the City of Man, including their interplay and their intermingling.
The two cities lay at the heart of history. Indeed, the history of the two cities is the heart of world history. And the heart and its loves lies right at the center of all this. A heart which loves God constitutes the person who is a member of the city of God. A heart... Continue Reading
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