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?
Glossary
A brief note regarding Gnostic Dualism
Why Suport This Project
The Critical Spirit, Confrontation and Perceived A...
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22 June 2019
Purity Culture Revisited: A Distortion Subjected to Distortion
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/opinion/sunday/sex-christian.html I was both surprised and disappointed to discover this article in t...
13 June 2019
Pompeo, Venezuela's Religious Institutions and Evangelical Exploitation
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/exclusive-pompeo-opens-up-about-venezuelas-opposition-says-keeping-it-united-has-pr...
25 May 2019
Sabbath and Dominion: New Calvinism and the Question of the Mundane
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I've mentioned this in passing before but I think it's a point worth revisiting. When I hear Confessionalists discussing New Calvi...
Inbox: Kingdom Clarity and Soteriological Fog
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As usual I have reworked the questions a bit but essentially I was asked the following. If God has made the distinctions between the Kingd...
22 May 2019
Inbox: Daniel and the Beastly Magistrate
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I was asked a question regarding Daniel serving in government. Clearly Daniel was willing to serve (as a slave) in the governments of Baby...
19 May 2019
The Poway Shooter, Replacement Theology and the Charge of Anti-Semitism
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There's another related issue to the Poway Shooting. I have detected a resurgence of Replacement Theology talk. This reminds me of Hal...
The Social Justice Controversy: An Addendum (Poway, R2K and the Inherent Violence of Sacralist Theology)
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I was stunned to learn that some have dared to argue that Two Kingdom theology led to the Poway Shooting. In reality the exact opposite ...
13 May 2019
Inbox: The Social Justice Controversy (Part 2)
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Racism can go both ways but maybe it takes a pilgrim to understand that post-Renaissance/Reformation Western Civilisation is a story of em...
Inbox: The Social Justice Controversy (Part 1)
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The controversy was generated in 2018 when a group of men led by John MacArthur issued a document (sometimes referred to as the Dallas Sta...
11 May 2019
Inbox: Problems with Sola Scriptura (Part 2)
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With regard to questions of text and canon, Christ provides the final ratification of the Old and establishes the basis for the New. In te...
Inbox: Problems with Sola Scriptura (Part 1)
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How can Sola Scriptura be defended in light of historical theology and the record regarding the development of Scripture? How can a strict S...
04 May 2019
Confessionalism's Embrace of Progressive Theology and Historiography (Part 2)
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And when (it must be asked) did the Roman Catholic Church become the Roman Catholic Church? That is a difficult question indeed and one ...
Confessionalism's Embrace of Progressive Theology and Historiography (Part 1)
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The right side of history. It's a phrase we hear all the time in the news, in lectures and interviews. The phrase contains the idea ...
14 April 2019
The 2007 PCA General Assembly Debate on Federal Vision Theology
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Some time ago I discovered the audio for the debate and listened with considerable interest. I found it interesting that it wasn't ...
LaHaye's Victory and the Next Phase: The Psychotropic Imperative
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Evangelicalism has a long track record of compromise when it comes to psychology and psychotropic drugs. In these days of confusion even...
10 April 2019
Clark and Mefferd on Socialism: A Dog and Pony Show
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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...
Parousia Interim
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The period in which the Parousia is in temporal suspension, paused and delayed from being fully completed, the period in which Divine Wrath...
06 April 2019
The Fool Wang Yi and the Dark Side of Calvinism
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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 ...
29 March 2019
The Lausanne Harvest (1974-2019)
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http://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/4136/julia_doxat_purser_brussels_Christians_are_now_better_at_thinking_biblically_about_politics_than_2...
The Northern Kingdom Analogy
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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...
04 March 2019
Evangelical Manipulation of the Population Debate (Part 2)
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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...
Evangelical Manipulation of the Population Debate (Part 1)
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https://www.christianpost.com/voice/population-bust-not-population-bomb.html Stonestreet once again misleads his audience as to the real...
13 February 2019
The False Exposé (Part 3/Final)
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I n some cases, these books could almost be described as court histories, official narratives that reveal some juicy tidbits and offer som...
The False Exposé (Part 2)
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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 (Part 1)
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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? ...
06 February 2019
Aeons Contrasted: Kingdom Visions in Conflict (Part 5)
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(Final) Protestantism continues to pursue the transformation of the world and yet continues to be transformed by it. The overwhelming sup...
Aeons Contrasted: Kingdom Visions in Conflict (Part 4)
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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...
Aeons Contrasted: Kingdom Visions in Conflict (Part 3)
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And though Magisterial Protestantism and modern Evangelicalism find a great deal of commonality with the historical Constantinianism of Ro...
Aeons Contrasted: Kingdom Visions in Conflict (Part 2)
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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...
Aeons Contrasted: Kingdom Visions in Conflict (Part 1)
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When it Comes to the Question of Vocation, Rome is Closer to the Truth than the Dominionist ideology of the Gospel Coalition https://www...
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 ...
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