Proto-Protestantism

The collapse of the Yellow Corporation in August 2023 made a brief splash in the news cycle – probably a little too brief. Many individuals ...

It seems like this subject is coming up a lot lately as I've encountered it in churches, in conversation, and even in podcast discussion...

Pennsylvania media has long been fixated on the trial of the man who went on a murderous Anti-Semitic rampage at a synagogue in Pittsburgh b...

When one thinks of religious conflict and persecution in the Americas, the slaughter of Huguenots at the hands of the Spanish necessarily co...

Were the Beall's disturbed by watching their little five year old disappear into the bowels of a big institutional facility? They should...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/christian-home-schoolers-revolt/ The new Amazon Prime documentary on The Duggars...

https://theaquilareport.com/second-thoughts-about-the-proposed-witness-overtures/ We've just passed General Assembly season in the Pre...

Having recently worked through Crawford Gribben's 2021 Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the P...

https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/june-15-2023-show-with-ed-boyle-micah-clouse-on-is-there-hope-for-the-united-church-of-christ/...

For as 'woke' as the environment supposedly is – he's been appalled at the Establishment-friendly narratives (that while sometim...

After having stated on repeated occasions that I don't believe Christians should send their children to public school, how can I justify...

Looking at a social media photo of members of our wider family circle (a network of relations connected by marriage) – I'm struck once a...

Having recently finished Gerard Russell's Heirs of Forgotten Kingdoms (Basic Books, 2014) I found myself once again irritated and put o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ofKxfYqGw In recent weeks, as the media focused on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Israel's foundin...

The Great Commission of Matthew 28 is repeatedly invoked but with a Dominionist overlay that re-casts the passage in terms of a Christianisa...

https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10922121435868 This podcast typifies the kind of confusion that seems to reign at the momen...

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...