Proto-Protestantism
Calling for a Return to the Doctrinal Ideals and Kingdom Ethics of the First Reformation
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A General Welcome (updated)
Who were the Proto-Protestants?
Glossary
A brief note regarding Gnostic Dualism
Why Suport This Project
The Critical Spirit, Confrontation and Perceived A...
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28 December 2023
Rejecting the Aquinas Jubilee
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https://theaquilareport.com/what-the-jubilee-of-aquinas-says-about-rome-and-roman-protestant-relations-in-some-quarters/ I appreciated som...
25 December 2023
Cessationism, the Charismata, and Messy Chapters in Church History
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https://www.christianpost.com/voices/reformed-cessationists-should-not-quote-church-history.html I have no wish to provide comfort or aid ...
14 December 2023
Historical Cycles: The Post-Napoleonic Context of Adolphe Monod, Reveil, and Some Contemporary Analogies (IV)
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The story of Monod is in some ways inspiring – in other respects he is something of a disappointment. The men of Reveil are closer to our ti...
Historical Cycles: The Post-Napoleonic Context of Adolphe Monod, Reveil, and Some Contemporary Analogies (III)
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As has so often been the case in Church history, persecution failed to defeat the faithful. They were instead defeated by peace and flourish...
Historical Cycles: The Post-Napoleonic Context of Adolphe Monod, Reveil, and Some Contemporary Analogies (II)
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The American context at this time was completely different. The new Republic had been able to successfully fuse Enlightenment ideas with Chr...
Historical Cycles: The Post-Napoleonic Context of Adolphe Monod, Reveil, and Some Contemporary Analogies (I)
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I recently finished Constance Walker's small biography on Adolphe Monod (1802-1856) which I would recommend to anyone interested in nine...
06 December 2023
Saving Christendom by Repackaging the Roman Beast
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https://americanreformer.org/2023/10/providence-and-empire/ This unfortunate article was reposted at The Aquila Report and there seems to ...
02 December 2023
Lying Missionaries and Brutalised Victims of Their Times: A Revisionist Historian Spins the Gnadenhutten Massacre
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When sections of the American public were forced to admit that it was American soldiers that committed the horrific massacre at My Lai in 19...
23 November 2023
A Thanksgiving Model that Must be Rejected
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https://churchandfamilylife.com/podcasts/6540dea48035f112bf38cdf8 Modern Thanksgiving was born out of the US Civil War – In 1863, Lincoln ...
20 November 2023
Conspiracies versus Conspiracy as a Worldview: The Epistemological and Ethical Rot of Libertarianism (III)
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Due to the necessity of expansion and sheer avarice, Capitalism will inevitably turn to the international sphere and with that comes intrigu...
Conspiracies versus Conspiracy as a Worldview: The Epistemological and Ethical Rot of Libertarianism (II)
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It is both sad and frustrating to me that some who are eager to take certain portions of Scripture at face value – like the commands to turn...
Conspiracies versus Conspiracy as a Worldview: The Epistemological and Ethical Rot of Libertarianism (I)
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For some time I've occasionally listened to a podcast called Catholics Against Militarism. It's flawed – it is Roman Catholic after ...
16 November 2023
A Recurring Exegetical Error Regarding Exercise
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https://g3min.org/how-valuable-is-bodily-training/ In 1 Timothy 4, Paul speaks of bodily exercise. He says it profits little, or profits a...
12 November 2023
Evangelicalism's Outsourced Worldview
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Some time ago I heard someone discussing the 'outsourcing' of a great deal of Evangelical thinking and it has stayed with me. It...
04 November 2023
The Persistent Myth Regarding Moscow and Covid
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On numerous occasions in conversation and from the pulpit I have heard Christians appealing to the example of Doug Wilson and his followers ...
28 October 2023
Churchill's Christian Civilization (II)
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The Churchill Cult in the United States finds its most tangible expression in Fulton, Missouri the site of his famous speech. Though most pe...
Churchill's Christian Civilization (I)
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In recent days, with the Ukraine War, the coronation of Charles III, as well as some Evangelical commentaries tangentially connected to thes...
22 October 2023
A Pastoral Rebuke of a Different Kind
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This was but another case of meeting Christian people at a church and getting one impression and then finding them on social media and disco...
07 October 2023
Glorying in their Shame: Celebrating the Magisterial Reformation's Sacral Heritage (II)
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Kennedy then takes a strange turn by invoking the memory of Reinhold Niebuhr who was not a Christian by any kind of New Testament measure. H...
Glorying in their Shame: Celebrating the Magisterial Reformation's Sacral Heritage (I)
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or The Distorted Thinking Which Dominates Reformed Political Thinking Today https://americanreformer.org/2023/07/reformed-political-theo...
30 September 2023
Norwich's History of the Papacy
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Having recently finished Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy, by John Julius Norwich (first published in 2011), I must say I was in t...
21 September 2023
Richard Bennett on the Waldensians
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The former Irish Roman Catholic priest Richard Bennett (1938-2019) has always been a figure of sympathy and respect in my book. He was so th...
17 September 2023
A Libertarian Perspective on Food Freedom (II)
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Listening to Mogel's arguments, there are almost too many ironies to enumerate. On the one hand these folks vigorously push for endless ...
A Libertarian Perspective on Food Freedom (I)
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https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/august-25-2023-show-with-jim-mogel-on-food-freedom-agriculture-from-a-biblical-perspective/ ...
09 September 2023
Antithesis and Small Town Church Dynamics
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I live in a very rural area and while some small-town churches can be warm and friendly others can seem cold and unreceptive.
07 September 2023
Another Exchange with an Evangelical Pastor
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I recently called an Evangelical pastor with some questions as his church website provided little in the way of substantive information.
28 August 2023
The Collapse of Yellow and its Context
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The collapse of the Yellow Corporation in August 2023 made a brief splash in the news cycle – probably a little too brief. Many individuals ...
24 August 2023
Inbox: Can an Unbaptized person take Communion?
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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...
15 August 2023
The Synagogue Shooter and the Death Penalty
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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...
08 August 2023
The Gnadenhutten Massacre
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When one thinks of religious conflict and persecution in the Americas, the slaughter of Huguenots at the hands of the Spanish necessarily co...
28 July 2023
Gothardism Under the Microscope and a Christian Parent's Response (II)
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Were the Beall's disturbed by watching their little five year old disappear into the bowels of a big institutional facility? They should...
Gothardism Under the Microscope and a Christian Parent's Response (I)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/christian-home-schoolers-revolt/ The new Amazon Prime documentary on The Duggars...
26 July 2023
Confessional Presbyterianism: A System of Syncretism, Tradition, and Bureaucracy
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https://theaquilareport.com/second-thoughts-about-the-proposed-witness-overtures/ We've just passed General Assembly season in the Pre...
24 July 2023
Postmillennial Clash: American Theonomy and British Whig-Revivalism
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Having recently worked through Crawford Gribben's 2021 Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the P...
05 July 2023
The UCC Backlash: Conservative remnants within old Congregationalist, Hungarian, and German Reformed Congregations
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https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/june-15-2023-show-with-ed-boyle-micah-clouse-on-is-there-hope-for-the-united-church-of-christ/...
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