Proto-Protestantism

Josh Harris has kissed Christianity good-bye. While this is tragic I want to thank him. Thank you for publicly  declaring your apostasy. T...

While I would love to recommend Heiser's works to family and friends, I cannot do so in good conscience. I know some would benefit fro...

For me the tragedy is that Protestant Scholasticism created a theological paradigm that had little room for spiritual duality and tension....

I first started thinking about the Divine Council many years ago when reading the works of Meredith Kline. In particular his 2001 commenta...

A couple of weeks ago we were blessed to have a young man visiting our pulpit, apparently some sort of aspiring preacher. Clearly excited ...

China's economy must continue growing. Continued Western investment is risky, all the more as it's clear the West is gearing for w...

Announced in the fall of 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative (OBOR) also known as the New Silk Road continues to garner attention a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/opinion/sunday/sex-christian.html I was both surprised and disappointed to discover this article in t...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/exclusive-pompeo-opens-up-about-venezuelas-opposition-says-keeping-it-united-has-pr...

I've mentioned this in passing before but I think it's a point worth revisiting. When I hear Confessionalists discussing New Calvi...

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...

I was asked a question regarding Daniel serving in government. Clearly Daniel was willing to serve (as a slave) in the governments of Baby...

There's another related issue to the Poway Shooting. I have detected a resurgence of Replacement Theology talk. This reminds me of Hal...

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 ...

Racism can go both ways but maybe it takes a pilgrim to understand that post-Renaissance/Reformation Western Civilisation is a story of em...

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...

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...

How can Sola Scriptura be defended in light of historical theology and the record regarding the development of Scripture? How can a strict S...

And when (it must be asked) did the Roman Catholic Church become the Roman Catholic Church? That is a difficult question indeed and one ...

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 ...

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...