Proto-Protestantism

As we are in high-patriotic season when it comes to the American liturgical calendar I thought it apropos to recall this speaker I heard b...

Section five is a celebration of Social Calvinism's greatest innovation and perhaps one of its greatest sins – the fictitious and wick...

https://world.wng.org/content/social_calvinism I first came across World Magazine in the 1990's after I returned to the United State...

The Stab in the Back and the Communist Plots There are conspiracies to be sure. I've already mentioned some of them. The US strategy...

The Race for Berlin The final days and aftermath of the European theatre of World War II is a topic that still generates some controvers...

Some forms of libertarianism posit a near anarchic view of society in which government is minimal and many of the functions and services c...

This is largely a summary of the previous piece found here: https://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2020/04/inbox-elaboration-of-biblic...

From the anti-sacralist Two Kingdom standpoint of New Testament Christianity, the aforementioned thin line between Church and State is in ...

https://www.rferl.org/a/inside-moscows-new-military-megachurch/30580784.html I happened to turn to the website affiliated with Radio CIA...

The truth is there has been a profound shift within Evangelical culture. In the 1970's there was still enough of the old Fundamentalis...

https://www.breakpoint.org/women-at-work/ It's no wonder people are confused. What we have here is a feminist argument to counter mo...

This is the End. There will be no other era of history after this but a new creation. The prophets announce these shifts in epoch, they po...

Hebrews 1.1-2 teaches us that the time of the prophets has ended with the advent of the Last Days – this provisional epoch which is relate...

While complete objectivity is impossible, oppositional journalism expresses a certain degree of cynicism with regard to power, and thus in...

The Gospel of Scripture vs. Today's Gospel The gospel message is simple enough. But to present it in a few paragraphs? Well, that...

While all of this is certainly concerning I was far more troubled when I watched the protest videos closely and spent some time examining ...

These protests express militancy and an insurrectionist character. Not everyone is carrying a gun to be sure but there are large numbers o...

Over the past week or so there has been a rash of protests, groups of people congregating outside government buildings and in violation of...

A third consideration which while hinted at above, requires further elaboration, this is the relationship between Authoritative Sufficienc...

Second, we must also wrestle with some basic questions surrounding the relationship between Biblicism and hermeneutics : There will be c...

What is meant by Biblicism? Like so many terms this can be confusing because people mean different things by it and define it in different...

The analogies provided by Mohler fail on so many levels. Even the Leviticus example refers to individuals contracting diseases. There'...

https://albertmohler.com/2020/03/26/obedience-to-god-and-love-of-neighbor-in-the-face-of-a-coronavirus-a-christians-mandate Albert Mohle...

(updated August 2024)  https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/hungarys-secret-weapon-catholic-nobility It's a seemingly innocuous arti...

I can say without qualification that I have been grieved by the mainstream Church's response to this outbreak. As I've talked abou...

There has been resistance in some quarters to the proposed stimulus plan which will send out checks to the American public. In many ways i...

updated 27 Mar 2020 As I continue to watch the developments and fallout from the Coronavirus episode I am coming to believe this is a wat...

I have heard through family and friends that many are lamenting the fact that their kids are now at home due to school closures. There is ...

On the one hand it could be argued that the presently available technology is a blessing as due to the medical emergency it would seem (fo...

As the Western system moves through the various phases of capitalism we've reached a point in which the old middle class is disappeari...

https://longreads.com/2020/01/10/the-price-of-dominionist-theology/ Despite many problems with the essay, from factual mistakes to the w...

Someday, will I operate my business 'under the table' because the laws have become impossible to comply with? I hope not but if it...

In recent articles I have discussed questions of persecution and punishment, of those who suffer as a result of the gospel versus those wh...

Biblicism and the rejection of Classical Metaphysics go together and this collapse ought to be celebrated. While we do not endorse Kantian...

https://journal.rts.edu/article/reforming-god/ Trueman has been talking about Socinianism as of late so this article wasn't a surpris...