Proto-Protestantism
Calling for a Return to the Doctrinal Ideals and Kingdom Ethics of the First Reformation
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A General Welcome (updated)
Who were the Proto-Protestants?
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A brief note regarding Gnostic Dualism
Why Suport This Project
The Critical Spirit, Confrontation and Perceived A...
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24 December 2018
Twisting Scripture and History to Justify Christmas
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http://evangelicalfocus.com/magazine/4072/Eight_AntiChristmas_Arguments This was a rather lackluster attempt by the author but it's ...
23 December 2018
Victorian Sacralism and the Roots of 20th Century Evangelicalism
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I have frequently mentioned and praised Iain Murray's Evangelicalism Divided , his often astute chronicle and analysis of 20 th centu...
17 December 2018
The Feminist Surge: an Addendum
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Here's the link to the original article: http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-feminist-surge-result-of.html There a...
09 December 2018
The Evangelical Worldview and the Legend of GHW Bush
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At work I will often turn on the ostensibly Christian radio station at noon to hear the news reported from a Christian worldview . Of cour...
11 November 2018
Petr Chelčický: A Medieval Biblicist and Rustic Philosopher (Part 2)
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Chelčický finds himself occupying an almost unique place in pre-Reformation Church History, representing views that would all but disappear ...
Petr Chelčický: A Medieval Biblicist and Rustic Philosopher (Part 1)
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Petr Chelčický was born sometime around 1380 in Southern Bohemia, today's Czech Republic.* Associated with the village of Chelčice, he w...
31 October 2018
The Feminist Surge: A Result of Ecclesiastical Confusion, Middle Class Assumptions and Para-church Inroads (Part 2)
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Where will this end? And more importantly what's happening in so-called Complementarian circles that suddenly career women have become...
The Feminist Surge: A Result of Ecclesiastical Confusion, Middle Class Assumptions and Para-church Inroads (Part 1)
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It's a growing trend and yet few seem to notice. Some have been lulled to sleep by the ever present 'hum' of our frenetic cult...
13 October 2018
Vocation, Dominion and The Banner of Truth (Part 2)
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Cyber-security isn't 'loving others' any more than is banking, delivering mail or building stairs. Some (and only some) of the...
Vocation, Dominion and The Banner of Truth (Part 1)
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https://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2018/a-new-testament-professors-rediscovery-of-the-doctrine-of-vocation/ I apologise in ...
07 October 2018
An Encounter with a Church Consultant: A lesson and a warning (Part 2)
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He criticised the congregation for reading Scripture passages that were too long. Also, they should abandon hymn books because a lot of pe...
An Encounter with a Church Consultant: A lesson and a warning (Part 1)
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This is both a report and perhaps a warning for churches of a certain mindset and polity. The congregation where we now assemble recently ...
04 October 2018
Historical Lessons not Learned: British Nonconformity, Classical Liberalism and a Cycle of Self-Destruction (Part 2)
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For almost two centuries large factions of Protestants have championed Classical Liberalism and now like a Golem or Frankenstein monster t...
Historical Lessons not Learned: British Nonconformity, Classical Liberalism and a Cycle of Self-Destruction (Part 1)
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Scotland made international news with its Named Person programme in 2014. This programme would effectively assign a social worker to every...
25 September 2018
Christians and Tattoos: Wading Through the Bad Arguments (Part 2)
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What about the idea of being marked out as a Christian, having one's self covered with Christian themed tattoos? This is even more p...
Christians and Tattoos: Wading Through the Bad Arguments (Part 1)
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It's a strange issue to have to discuss, all the more because it wasn't that long ago that this issue was unheard of. Tattoos were...
22 September 2018
Legislation as a Form of Pedagogy
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Christians differ over the role of law in society. Many believe that Biblical law is to be enforced, others believe Natural Law is suffici...
20 September 2018
Pentecost and the Framework of Redemptive History: Prolepsis, Asynchronicity and Eschatological Ethics (Part 2)
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All that said, there is a sense in which Pentecost does have a special significance for NT believers. I think it safe to say that as New...
Pentecost and the Framework of Redemptive History: Prolepsis, Asynchronicity and Eschatological Ethics (Part 1)
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What is the significance of Pentecost? It was the occasion in which the Holy Spirit descended on believers signifying the new age, the seal...
15 September 2018
American Evangelicalism, China and all things Eurasia (Part 2)
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But perhaps the biggest and most destructive force is not found among the corrupt and ignorant leaders of American Evangelicalism. No, the...
American Evangelicalism, China and all things Eurasia (Part 1)
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Beijing's 'clampdown' on Chinese Churches is making a splash in Evangelical circles and as I've long followed the state of C...
11 September 2018
Revisions and Reversals Part 3/Final
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But there are other strange reversals too.... The First Amendment is now by some accounts a Right-wing issue. This strangely has an air ...
Revisions and Reversals Part 2
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If these reversals and revisions weren't bizarre enough, the Right and especially the Christian Right have taken some rather unforeseen ...
Revisions and Reversals Part 1
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Culturally and politically we are undergoing a series of revisions and reversals. History is being re-written and in many cases historical...
09 September 2018
Supermarket Sacrilege
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It was one of those culturally oppressive days. My wife and I were in a supermarket in a nearby town and it just seemed like everyone, eve...
31 August 2018
Washer's Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church: Critiquing the Critics (Part 2)
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Washer refers to infant baptism as the golden calf of the Reformation. To put it bluntly, he's wrong... but there's a sense in whi...
Washer's Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church: Critiquing the Critics (Part 1)
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Recently I decided to revisit Paul Washer's Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church. You can get it in pamphlet form but in this cas...
25 August 2018
The TSA, Bureaucracy and Permanent War
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https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/633980912/tsas-quiet-skies-program-tracks-observes-travelers-in-the-air Undoubtedly some will have notice...
19 August 2018
The Horn of Africa, Geopolitics and the Persecution of Christians
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Recently some thirty-five Christians were released from prison in Eritrea. Is this a sign of future toleration or a case of symbolic amnes...
16 August 2018
Trinitarian Nomenclature, Progressive Orthodoxy and the Sufficiency of Scripture (Part 2)
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There was resistance to the progressivist trajectory among the Medieval proponents of Sola Scriptura. While many of the groups were essent...
Trinitarian Nomenclature, Progressive Orthodoxy and the Sufficiency of Scripture (Part 1)
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I have been challenged, rebuked and questioned about my recent comments with regard to the doctrine of the Trinity. The context was a critic...
08 August 2018
Apocalypticism (Part 2)
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One may be an Amillennialist with no expectation of chiliastic-millennial triumph in this age and yet embrace Dominionism with its insiste...
Apocalypticism (Part 1)
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Amillennialism has always been a problematic term. It's a position defined by what it is not. It posits the millennium in apophatic term...
29 July 2018
Prophetic Idiom, Perspective and Isaiah 65
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Isaiah 65 is a problematic passage for many and yet their struggles with it are actually rooted in fundamental misunderstandings of how pr...
22 July 2018
A Study in Fools: Veneers and Big Questions
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https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/618217795/teaching-children-to-ask-the-big-questions-without-religion This NPR story caught my attention ...
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