Proto-Protestantism

Recently I was re-reading a book of essays on Klaas Schilder and on the question of Christ and Culture, NH Gootjes asks if the cultural mand...

https://www.douglasvandorn.com/post/a-christian-nation-or-the-covenant-of-works-applied-to-the-nations-undoing-bad-christian-argument If it...

Cyber-security isn't 'loving others' any more than is banking, delivering mail or building stairs. Some (and only some) of the...

https://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2018/a-new-testament-professors-rediscovery-of-the-doctrine-of-vocation/ I apologise in ...

In terms of the differences between the confessional Lutheran position and my own maybe I can shed a little light, but I will be brief and p...

The Cultural Mandate or sometimes the Dominion Mandate refers to the command in Genesis 1.28 to be fruitful and multiply, to subdue the ea...

For some readers this is revisiting old ground. But some find it helpful to continually revisit these basic themes. These two posts are res...

For some readers this is revisiting old ground. But some find it helpful to continually revisit these basic themes. These two posts are resp...

Americans view Iran as the aggressor but imagine if you will...China conquering Canada and Mexico and sailing warships along our coast, ta...

 Today I was thinking about the law and the great importance placed upon it by those in the Evangelical sphere. They place such an emphasis ...

Not Walter Cronkite, but we will tell it the way it is. This article was interesting. Cronkrite is considerably more thoughtful than the fam...

 National Confession, national repentance? How could anyone argue against that? It sounds pure and God honouring, but is it? The entire sphe...

Sorry some of these recent posts have been so long, but rather than divide them up I've just posted them. If you're here, you know t...

Dominionism embraces the The Great Commission of Matthew 28, the message of Redemption provided by Christ for those who are born again and h...

This is basically a summary of what this project and website are all about. Sorry this is kind of long, but since there are a lot of new rea...

Part six of my four part series..... We have a joke around our house. When I call home during the day and ask if we received any phone cal...

 Now, these have been general outlines of the two extremes. There's actually another camp which represents probably a much larger number...

Transformationalism seemingly stands at the opposite end of the Christ and Culture debate, and in some sense it is, but it's built on th...

updated 29 June 2012 The other day I stumbled across a blog post related to music, 'pagan beats' and its dangers. I tried to p...

Schaff's colleague John Nevin wrote a fascinating essay entitled "Early Christianity." It is available in his book "Catho...