Proto-Protestantism

Some time ago I discovered the audio for the debate and listened with considerable interest. I found it interesting that it wasn't ...

Evangelicalism has a long track record of compromise when it comes to psychology and psychotropic drugs. In these days of confusion even...

https://heidelblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/7-25-18-Janet-Mefferd-Today.mp3 I rolled my eyes, but like the impulse to turn one...

The period in which the Parousia is in temporal suspension, paused and delayed from being fully completed, the period in which Divine Wrath...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/world/asia/pastor-wang-yi-detention.html I read this article the other day and it disheartened me to ...

http://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/4136/julia_doxat_purser_brussels_Christians_are_now_better_at_thinking_biblically_about_politics_than_2...

A way to view Rome as a covenantally relevant but apostate form of Christianity. Those who say Rome has no status and never did err bo...

The real problem is waste and consumption. The Western world bears most of the guilt but it must be admitted that they are not solely to b...

https://www.christianpost.com/voice/population-bust-not-population-bomb.html Stonestreet once again misleads his audience as to the real...

I n some cases, these books could almost be described as court histories, official narratives that reveal some juicy tidbits and offer som...

Jeremy Scahill's book on Blackwater came to mind while reading the Dinges work on Condor. It represents a common type of criticism but...

The False   Exposé . It's a concept I've talked about from time to time but it deserves a closer examination. What exactly is it? ...

(Final) Protestantism continues to pursue the transformation of the world and yet continues to be transformed by it. The overwhelming sup...

Rome's model was developed under the auspices of Late Antiquity and their version of Christendom was forged in what we now call the Mi...

And though Magisterial Protestantism and modern Evangelicalism find a great deal of commonality with the historical Constantinianism of Ro...

Christ took on the semblance of sinful flesh in order to redeem not this fallen temporal world but to save His people who are (and will be...

When it Comes to the Question of Vocation, Rome is Closer to the Truth than the Dominionist ideology of the Gospel Coalition https://www...

http://evangelicalfocus.com/magazine/4072/Eight_AntiChristmas_Arguments This was a rather lackluster attempt by the author but it's ...

I have frequently mentioned and praised Iain Murray's Evangelicalism Divided , his often astute chronicle and analysis of 20 th centu...

Here's the link to the original article: http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-feminist-surge-result-of.html There a...

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...

Chelčický finds himself occupying an almost unique place in pre-Reformation Church History, representing views that would all but disappear ...

Petr Chelčický was born sometime around 1380 in Southern Bohemia, today's Czech Republic.* Associated with the village of Chelčice, he w...

Where will this end? And more importantly what's happening in so-called Complementarian circles that suddenly career women have become...

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...

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 ...

He criticised the congregation for reading Scripture passages that were too long. Also, they should abandon hymn books because a lot of pe...

This is both a report and perhaps a warning for churches of a certain mindset and polity. The congregation where we now assemble recently ...

For almost two centuries large factions of Protestants have championed Classical Liberalism and now like a Golem or Frankenstein monster t...

Scotland made international news with its Named Person programme in 2014. This programme would effectively assign a social worker to every...

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...

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...

Christians differ over the role of law in society. Many believe that Biblical law is to be enforced, others believe Natural Law is suffici...

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...