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30 December 2020

Postscript: An Aesthetic both Transient and Transcendent

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XXII/Final) We ought to understand that technolo...
29 December 2020

Postscript: Magisterial Protestantism's Cultural Legacy and Aesthetic Schizophrenia

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XXI) This topic may seem off-base or represent a...
28 December 2020

Postscript: Last Days Dualities and The Cult of Monism

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XX) The dominant monism of today is a result of ...
27 December 2020

Postscript: Pending Crises and Doctrinal Corollaries Viewed Through a First Reformational Lens

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XIX) There are several additional areas that are...
24 December 2020

The Covid Crisis in the Church at the End of 2020

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What a catastrophe. What a shame and disgrace. Covid cases are increasing and even our small town newspaper is reflecting this – the obituar...

Inbox: Utilising the Decalogue

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I have paraphrased the question(s) below: If the Decalogue is technically defunct in the New Covenant era and yet still expresses the Eter...
20 December 2020

A Final Appeal: The First Reformation Applied to the Contemporary Context (Part 2)

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVIII) While our Biblicist theology is necessari...

A Final Appeal: The First Reformation Applied to the Contemporary Context (Part 1)

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVII) The time is now. These essays have attem...
16 December 2020

An Indictment of Evangelicalism in Light of the First Reformation Imperative

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVI) The time is now. The revisiting and recas...
06 December 2020

Asian Tensions and the Clash of Empires: Trump, Xi and the 19th Congress of the CCP

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Has Xi extended his power or has he been rebuked and curtailed by elements within the Beijing bureaucracy? It depends on how you read the 19...
29 November 2020

The Moral Law: Ezekiel 20, the Sabbath, and the Decalogue

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Moreover I also gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.(Ezekie...
25 November 2020

The First Reformation and the Present Ecclesiastical Crisis

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XV) The time is now. Dominionism and the reactio...
20 November 2020

Afghanistan and Iraq at the End of the Trump Era

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The panicked reaction to Trump's planned troop withdrawal from both Iraq and Afghanistan has been palpable. The media and the US Establi...

Pluralism, Modernity, and the Third Constantinian Shift

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XIV) Once again we are reminded of the strange r...
18 November 2020

The Blind Facilitators

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https://www.aomin.org/aoblog/christian-worldview/where-we-stand-how-church-history-can-help-but-only-so-far/ Though he's a bit late to...
14 November 2020

The Legacy of the Second Constantinian Shift and the Threat of Secularism

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XIII) Not all among the Czech Brethren and Walde...
08 November 2020

First Reformation Primitivism and the Second Constantinian Shift

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XII) The First Reformation it would seem embrace...
01 November 2020

Transgressing the Celestial Order

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Why The Church Must Reject Politics (Part II) Peter knows that these teachers will be engaged in activity that will lead to the Church bei...

Providence, Power and Second-Class Citizenship

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Why The Church Must Reject Politics (Part I) These are questions that I have addressed many times but I'll address some specific point...
30 October 2020

Competing Kingdom and Doctrinal Narratives: The First Reformation versus Twentieth Century Dominionism

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XI) The first half of the Twentieth Century saw ...
24 October 2020

The Legacy of First Reformation Separatism versus Magisterial Protestantism's Establishment Ethos (1517-1914)

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (X) There is value in a further elaboration of th...
20 October 2020

New Testament Christianity, Homeschooling and the Collapse of French Pluralism

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https://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/8340/evangelicals-react-to-frances-plans-to-fight-islamist-separatism I am certain that attitudes have...
18 October 2020

The First Reformation and Magisterial Reformation Contrasted

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (IX) Another way of reviewing and emphasizing the...
13 October 2020

Waldensian Historiography

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (VIII) The question of Waldensian placement becom...
07 October 2020

The Hussite Spectrum

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (VII) The Great Schism which erupted in 1378 gene...
06 October 2020

Supreme Ironies: The Coney Barrett Nomination

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(updated and amended)† Taking in all the drama and pending procedural battles over the Amy Coney Barrett nomination I was struck by the nu...
01 October 2020

The First Reformation

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (VI) Some would date the First Reformation to the...
27 September 2020

Dissent Before the Gregorian Reform and the Placement of Celtic Christianity

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (V) The growing apostasy at work in the post-Cons...
24 September 2020

The Oracular Mark and Historiography

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (IV) The following is by no means exhaustive but ...
20 September 2020

Metanarratives of Church History: Mercersburg, Confessionalism, and Landmarkism

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (III) Nevin imposes a theological paradigm and me...
16 September 2020

Testimonies of Early Dissent

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (II) In his Early Christianity series, Nevin goe...
13 September 2020

Nevin's Early Christianity

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (I) The study of Church History is one dominate...
30 August 2020

Anti-Masking, 9/11 and Nero (Part 2)

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In the grand scheme of things we can say this – wearing a mask is a small price to pay, a small inconvenience especially if it helps to pr...

Anti-Masking, 9/11 and Nero (Part 1)

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After 9/11, it was the Right-wing and the political Conservatives who supported the suspending of rights. They supported the curtailing of...
19 August 2020

Trump +1307: Middle Eastern Geopolitics, Switching Alliances and American Absenteeism (II)

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As previously mentioned, the explosion in Beirut was quickly capitalised on by France's Macron – the Americans are absent, and thus ot...