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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23 August 2024
The Dangers of Viewing the Godhead Through a Scholastic Lens (II)
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Dolezal's admission of mutabilist language being present in the text and his resort to nonliteral, accommodationist, and anthropomorphic...
The Perils of Viewing the Godhead Through a Scholastic Lens (I)
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https://frame-poythress.org/scholasticism-for-evangelicals-thoughts-on-all-that-is-in-god-by-james-dolezal/ After following the Dolezal-Div...
17 August 2024
A British Evangelical's take on Faith, Work, and Culture War
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https://evangelicalfocus.com/multimedia/video/24261/Dan_Strange:_Faith,_work_and_Culture_Wars There's a lot packed into this 12-minute...
10 August 2024
Libertarian Myths Exposed and Refuted
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https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/05/07/1249203297/neoliberal-economics-the-road-to-freedom-or-authoritarianism The report of this l...
07 August 2024
China and the Christian Right's Framing of Cold War 2.0
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https://wng.org/opinions/another-cold-war-1714597247 This typifies the kind of material we have come to expect from Littlejohn - misleadin...
04 August 2024
Crossing the Authority Line
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I recently had a nice long chat with an Anglo-Catholic priest and we discussed the issue of authority and how their understanding differs fr...
31 July 2024
Trumpism and the Infiltration of the Church
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I'm hardly the first to muse on the irony of how the Right expressed constant concern over Obama and how the Left made him into a messia...
28 July 2024
Comenius and the Swedish Occupation of Lissa
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As reported in a previous piece the Bohemian Brethren who would later become the Moravians were involved in the 1618 Protestant plot to inst...
23 July 2024
Both Low Church and High Doctrine
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Driving home from a rather High-Church Anglican service, I reflected on the many different understandings of worship and the relationship (i...
20 July 2024
20 July 1944, Franklin Graham, and the Manipulation of Providence
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Eighty years ago today a bomb exploded at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia killing four men. The intended target, Adolf Hitler survived b...
14 July 2024
The Great Ejection Revisited
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https://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2023/the-background-to-the-great-ejection/ For years I simply accepted the narrative surro...
11 July 2024
What Kingdom Fellowship?
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Recently I discovered a new congregation in the area. It's not really in my area but I decided to make the drive and investigate. There ...
06 July 2024
Rescued from Reconstructionism: Wisdom and Worship versus Politicised Hermeneutics
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https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/why-i-went-cold-turkey-on-political-theology This is the story of a man wh...
01 July 2024
Reflecting on Independence Day 2024 (II)
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The original nation under the Articles of Confederation wouldn't hold together and so for many the revolution was betrayed by the creati...
Reflecting on Independence Day 2024 (I)
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My criticism of the United States and its wars as well as expressions of patriotism are not meant to trample on personal feelings, nor am I ...
29 June 2024
Wilson's Judaizing Call for Sacralist Architecture
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https://building.christkirk.com/ For those familiar with Wilson's 1998 'Angels in the Architecture', this appeal for a new buil...
25 June 2024
Closing the Book on the Assange Era
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There are clearly some who are unhappy with Assange's release and believe he should have been either executed or incarcerated for life. ...
23 June 2024
The Covenant of Works and Mosaic Law Misapplied
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https://www.douglasvandorn.com/post/a-christian-nation-or-the-covenant-of-works-applied-to-the-nations-undoing-bad-christian-argument If it...
20 June 2024
A Snap-shot of Dominionism in Rural Pennsylvania
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/christian-movement-new-apostolic-reformation-politics-trump/674320/ This story received s...
15 June 2024
Albright's War to Break Yugoslavia
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/08/how-madeleine-albright-got-the-war-the-u-s-wanted/ Elich speaks of the US wanting war in 1999 and s...
08 June 2024
From Patriarchy to Apostasy
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https://julieroys.com/rift-author-cait-west-talks-breaking-free-christian-patriarchy/ Once again this is a sad but increasingly common stor...
07 June 2024
Another Factor Connected to the Worker Shortage
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When considering the worker shortage that seems so evident when one is out and about interacting with the US economy, the various explanatio...
27 May 2024
The Bohemian Brethren and the Crowning of Frederick V
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I've been working my way through Edmund Alexander de Schweinitz's The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum; or, The Uni...
22 May 2024
Inbox: The Church as Institution vs. Sect (II)
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The non-sacral sect model views culture as something that is at best inevitably corrupt (and thus to some degree a thing indifferent), and a...
Inbox: The Church as Institution vs. Sect (I)
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What of those who insist it's wrong for the Church to be viewed as a sect? Is it an institution? Is it right for us to think of it in su...
01 May 2024
The Complexity of Contemporary Myths and Paul's Concerns in 2 Timothy 4
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In a recent sermon, the pastor (while dealing with 2 Timothy 4) addressed the issue of fables and myths that will be introduced into the Ch...
17 April 2024
A Dispensationalist Voice from Yesteryear
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I happened to be up in Western New York the other day and picked up Insight for Living, the radio programme of Chuck Swindoll on WDCX out of...
02 April 2024
Limited Epistemology and the Place of the Lost in Cosmology (II)
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Modern Christians lament the sixteenth century Copernican Shift which initiated the reformulation of not just cosmology but epi...
Limited Epistemology and the Place of the Lost in Cosmology (I)
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At certain times it hits you. Someone you know dies and that someone was a lost person, and you think about their life and you ...
13 March 2024
Playing Chick-fil-a with the Sabbath
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https://wng.org/opinions/playing-chicken-with-the-lords-day-1707873572 I read this article in frustration and then laughed when I reached ...
09 March 2024
Inbox: The Northern Kingdom Analogy Expanded (II)
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Confessionalists and Evangelicals, (the two dominate groups in my Judah- Southern Kingdom analogy) don’t quote their own prophets as do the ...
Inbox: The Northern Kingdom Analogy Expanded (I)
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Given all the overtly heretical forms of Christianity that are out there, why spend so much time criticizing conservative leaders and mini...
06 March 2024
More Presbyterian Shenanigans
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https://theaquilareport.com/transferring-church-membership-is-not-a-violation-of-the-presbyterian-church-in-americas-membership-vows-a-gentl...
27 February 2024
A Rather Foolish Argument for Creedalism
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https://www.smalltowntheologian.org/for-those-who-argue-against-creeds/ Those who reject Confessionalism are fools we're told by this ...
13 February 2024
Atlanticism's Attempt to Curtail the Rise of Europe and a Multi-Polar World
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Atlanticism represents a historical anomaly – Europe under subjugation from an outside power. For many decades this was limited to Western E...
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