Proto-Protestantism

It must be granted the appeal to different understandings of law and its implications for Kingdom thinking by Evans is rather astute and is ...

Common Grace is a reality, a mercy, and restraint while the Church bears witness in the world and (this is critically important) wins by los...

https://theecclesialcalvinist.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/the-two-kingdoms-theology-and-christians-today/ The cited article by William B Evan...

I was asked to elaborate a bit on the question of proto-Protestantism's relationship to Magisterial Protestantism and the question of co...

In a Journal of Early Christian Studies article from the 1990's David Hunter argues contrary to Jerome and later interpreters (such as ...

The problems that Berkhof refers to concerning the Godhead and the Incarnation are dilemmas only for the systematician who thinks he can dis...

Louis Berkhof's The History of Christian Doctrines (published in 1937) is a great resource if one is looking for a broad overview of hi...

The hypocritical and frankly spurious ICC indictment of Putin for war crimes was timed perfectly to coincide with Xi's recent trip to Mo...

These are mostly points that have been touched on over the past year and even well before the war erupted in February 2022. However, some of...

https://derekzrishmawy.com/2015/06/30/dont-underestimate-the-scholastics-or-gleanings-from-richard-mullers-prrd/ Critics of the Calvin vs....

Many of the doctrinal points Melia wishes to make (which he does by means of collating numerous quotations and references) are troublesome t...

The Origin, Persecutions, and Doctrines of The Waldenses by Pius Melia. The original was published in 1870. The copy I read was a 1978 AMS ...

https://theologymatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/00Vol6-No1-TM.pdf While there are certainly some advantages to understanding the co...

Through the efforts of my son I was able to read Peter Brock's The Political and Social Doctrines of the Unity of Czech Brethren in the ...

In light of these struggles and the fact that money is not the goal – but to honour God and hopefully (if possible) find something you enjoy...

This question of daughters seems especially difficult in today's context, all the more when you make something of a stand and yet no one...

As my children are all now in early adulthood and yet living at home, we have been forced to wrestle with some of the assumptions in the cul...

The New Testament teaches that the Mosaic order has been disannulled – hence the harsh words in the epistles of Galatians and Hebrews, the e...

The various Babylons of the world will to greater or lesser degrees build law codes and ethical systems and they will all be flawed and tain...

https://philosophical-theology.com/2022/04/02/lee-irons-view-of-unbelievers-and-the-christian-sabbath/ The Theonomist in question argues t...

https://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2015/03/constantine-defended-and-revisited.html Recently, I decide to re-read this book and the a...

Providence lobbed the American Church a softball when it came to Covid. Did it rise to the occasion? No, the episode exposed a metastatic sp...

https://frankfurtdeclaration.com This last summer a new doctrinal declaration appeared that for all its bluster has received surprisingly ...

I happened to catch a news story the other day about Amy Grant and how she has completely caved to the Sodomite ethos that now dominates thi...

One could say (given all that has been argued here) that I might be a prime candidate for swimming the Tiber (or Crossing the Bosphorus) and...

While the aforementioned councils of Late Antiquity were not 'ecumenical' councils – a point some make to argue their canon proclama...

As mentioned previously contemporary Evangelicals and Confessional Protestants are quick to adopt the canons and concepts of Higher Criticis...

http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2022/12/gems-from-shepherd-of-hermas.html In light of recent statements regarding the Early Church...

https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/november-30-2022-show-with-dr-joe-boot-and-joel-webbon-on-the-mission-of-god-a-manifesto-of-ho...

It's been quite a few years since I read The Shepherd of Hermas. Reading it anew I was reminded of how alien it is to Evangelical sensib...

Recently re-reading some Early Church Fathers, I was both pleased and inspired to discover this exhortation on the part of Ignatius of Antio...

https://issuesetc.org/2022/07/29/2101-christian-crusaders-raymond-ibrahim-7-29-22/ This was but another ridiculous interview I found on Is...

The psychology explosion took place (culturally speaking) in the 1970's and the Evangelical movement in its zeal to be culturally releva...

This piece is in response to the 16 August 2022 piece entitled Secular Psychology and the Denial of Scriptural Authority found here: https...

https://rfbwcf.substack.com/p/does-the-bible-trump-the-bco The Book of Church Order (BCO) is utilised in various forms by various Presbyte...