Proto-Protestantism

Taking up the sword of the Spirit, which is Civil Litigation. There was another story on the programme regarding a woman who was attendi...

It sure isn't the God of the Bible. Maybe it's the giant idol in New York harbour? Actually it's pretty clear what America worsh...

Self-Deception Regarding Motives Some have argued that we should abolish public schools altogether. Okay, again when they're in contr...

Bringing Down the Babylonian School System They make much of their fight for school vouchers. The argument goes something like this…Basic...

I like a lot of the things you write and the way it makes me think, but I'm concerned with the negative tone. Does everything always h...

A Response to Colson's Fantasies I hear Colson every day on the radio. It’s amazing but whatever the topic he has an almost perfect tr...

Final segment.... And with Pietism you always abandon wisdom for a checklist. You can’t think through issues and say this might be okay fo...

For those familiar with the terms, do this mean I’m arguing the Complementarian position? Maybe, but if I go to the Wikipedia article on Bi...

We always have to behave as Christians and sometimes that means in order to do that, we have to turn our backs on certain activities. Not b...

A follow up note to the post dealing with the 12 November 2011 Republican Debate. This is hardly an exhaustive treatment of these issues...

Evidence? Just watch the November 12, 2011 Republican Debate. I’m not really sure why I am surprised, but I am. Last night as I watched t...

Culture Warriors and the Sacralist Swords of Threat, Litigation, and Fear. The other day on Focus on the Family they had a guest from th...

Elitist Tendencies One final point. There is an Elitist tendency among those who profess this creed. Focusing on Ivory Tower philoso...

The Unassailable Philosophical Wall Are the Dominionist Blueprints, their models for transforming the spheres...Christian? Biblical? Are ...

As a follow up to my Halloween article found here:   http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2010/10/all-sacralists-eve.html This au...

Establishment, Dissent, Social Gospel and The Golden Age Is the Kingdom of God manifested in temporal, geographical, and cultural term...

The Medieval Manichee, the Modern Liberal, Monism and Pluralism According to Kuyper, Christ declares, 'Every square inch is mine...

Christo-Americanism the foundation of Dominionist Cooperation In the United States the final straw was the decade of the 1960's. Swee...

As I'm getting back to writing I'm publishing a series on you guessed it...Dominionism. There's nothing terribly new with this...

Rule, Reign, and Transformation Many have heard of Francis Schaeffer and perhaps have seen his movie How Should We Then Live? In it he tr...

My apologies to all.... I hope to return soon. I have some stuff just sitting there that I haven't re-read in order to publish....

Here’s a Colson commentary from the other day. It’s a great illustration of how these folks think. It clearly displays the assumptions of ...

Here’s the transcript of an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air Programme from a couple of days ago. It is rather interesting and illustrative be...

High Places, apostasy, and no Reformation on the horizon...but it might be a good thing, if we reckon things as God does.   TD Gordon, a ...

So what to do? I'll admit, it's a bit discouraging when I look at the contemporary ecclesiastical scene. I'm even discoura...

While it may sound strange to some, we attend an annual event near our home. It's a World War II re-enactment. I'm not into re-enac...

There are strong Romantic sentiments reigning within Christian circles today. They glory in the heritage of Christendom, the West. Upon cl...

 The issues at hand: Transformationalism Politicizes the Gospel, leading to agenda-driven thought, and often a complete rejection of gen...

First, a quick revisit of some basic concepts.... As we've stated many times, Sacralism redefines Christianity. Biblically we can spea...

The previous four posts are simply definitions that are being linked in the glossary. It's not my intention to invent wild sounding ...

Perspectival Soteriology Others use the term Perspectivalism, and I'm certainly not advocating their theological position, but it...

Hyper-Eschatologized Ecclesiology and its symptom or fruit...Ecclesiastical Apathy- These are high sounding terms for a concept that...

Hermeneutical Compression- This is but another way of describing one or some of the various nuances that result from theological systemic...

  Sacralist Collective- The Bible deals with individuals and a collective body... the Church. The Church of course can be viewed i...

I'm still here....though I haven't been online much lately. Thanks for the recent comments and handful of emails. God willing I...