Proto-Protestantism

A discussion regarding Halloween.

Answering Questions#6 -The nature of Power and how it presents itself to the world In light of all the discussion regarding media and info...

Just some follow-up on the NPR controversy.

Since we've been talking about power and its effects and the dangers it poses for the followers of Christ, I thought I would take second...

First I apologize to the international readers. Several of the recent posts, including this one, have concerned items almost exclusively wit...

Since we find Chechnya once again in the news, I thought I would post this Margolis piece from April. While Chechnya has nothing to do wit...

or Lies in the cause of Constantinianism Sharron Angle has been running numerous political ads which can only be described as dishonest...

Once again Eric Margolis has produced an interesting commentary. This time it concerns the latest news out of the United Kingdom concerning ...

or Truths so plain, only an apostate idolater could fail to see them. Another excellent piece by Paul C. Roberts . Again I ask, why does t...

Getting some great questions...keep them coming. Isn't Sola Scriptura anachronistic when placed in a medieval context? The people wer...

Who were the Protoprotestants? Could you explain Sacralism a bit more? Is there a difference between Sacralism and Constantinianism?

I've detected a little bit of confusion regarding my use of the term Romanticism so I thought I would take a minute and try to clarify w...

How important was the issue of Sacralism to the Anabaptists? The Church that had allowed itself to become identified with the State was to...

or Getting it right: Non-Sacralist Public Discourse On more than one occasion I've spoken ill of Albert Mohler, not for the soteriolo...

Comments and a link regarding the Sacralist judge in Mississippi...

The American Empire: An Unholy Alliance between Church and State by Lee Shelton This is a brief but helpful piece touching on several poin...

or A Replacement Concept to be rejected Many who attack the notion of Replacement theology, that is the idea that the Church has inhe...

This is important, so I wish to re-emphasize… In John 6 we read they tried to come and make him King by force, but he rejected this and sl...

Here's a link to some news reports regarding the troubles in Ecuador. and another paragraph on Wikipedia with some additional links . ...

or Rights and wrongs in the relationship between the Old and New Covenants and how we define The People of God In this 3-part series I...

A further comment concerning Colson. I remember just recently listening to Jim Daly of Focus on the Family praise Colson as a modern day P...

Just astonishing. After years of defending the Bush administration, its wars, its renditions and tortures, suddenly we have Evangelical le...

Here's an exchange I had with a cyber-friend. Though brief, I thought we touched on some interesting topics and wanted to share the conv...

No surprise, but the United States is once again employing Death Squads to do its work . This time instead of Central America and Vietnam, i...

Periodically, I receive questions via email and sometimes they are of a nature beneficial to the general audience. So I'm starting an on...

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...

I often disagree with him, but here's a worthwhile article from PC Roberts. A sober and I'm sad to say, accurate assessment. It...

or Christian Life and the Kingdom Part 5 of my 4 part series (?) on Advancing the Kingdom. Thus far I've been critical of what I d...

As a follow up to some of the comments I made in the last post…. I would also point out the problems Dispensationalism and Postmillenni...

I ended the last piece with this question. So why do I find it particularly strange this radio preacher was teaching about the Cultural M...

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

A war worth fighting. Within Reformed circles there's an intense debate between the Two Kingdom Theology position which I advocate her...

I had planned to have a post ready for today, but I've been a bit overwhelmed lately and didn't get it done. Yes, it's related t...

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...

What is Pietism? This term is a bit complicated and can mean a lot of different things. Of course those who self-identify as Pietists will n...