Proto-Protestantism

The recent death of Steve Schlissel (1952-2025) has rekindled some of the discussions regarding Federal Vision - something I also touched on...

https://jacobrcrouch.wordpress.com/2024/11/01/train-your-kids-to-be-christians/ There is much that is positive in this article and I do not...

The visions in Daniel and repeated in Revelation seem to suggest the Roman Empire is the model for the Beast and indeed from the time of the...

War abroad will always mean war waged against the population at home. Contrary to the rhetoric of someone like Biden or the pipe dreams of t...

As Western or even Global society waxes in a more Bestial direction we have to expect heightened opposition and exclusion. If faithful, we s...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64729442 Published in early 2023, this is a disturbing story on many levels. William Hague and Tony Bl...

https://regensburgforum.com/2016/12/12/political-theology-modernity-and-late-scholasticism/ The context for this discussion is the epistem...

The news is focused on Christmas-related human-interest stories, shopping deals, travel woes, actresses who market their bodies and then com...

One can only sit back in wonder when reading a statement like this: It is on this basis that Bavinck can say: “There is thus a rich revela...

https://www.wyattgraham.com/p/what-does-herman-bavinck-mean-by Reading this article about Herman Bavinck (1854-1921), I found myself overw...

The fall of the Assad regime is by all accounts a monumental development in the history of the modern Middle East, and it came rapidly and u...

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/living-wonder/ I rather enjoyed reading this review though I have not decided whether I will pic...

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/11/the-new-divide-in-global-anglicanism This article interested me because it's connec...

https://www.str.org/w/will-god-be-in-pain-for-eternity-as-he-watches-people-suffer-in-hell- I will desist from an extended critique of Gre...

I heard Tim Alberta interviewed on Fresh Air back in November of 2023. His interview grabbed my attention as I remain eager to hear Evangeli...

For more than twenty years I have been fascinated by various similarities between aspects of ancient Greek philosophy and that of ancient In...

It's been ten years since its release and I finally got around to watching Citizen Four, the Snowden documentary by Laura Poitras. Why d...

I recently finished Frederick Heymann's George of Bohemia: King of Heretics (1965, Princeton University Press). It's a weighty and...

Too often Protestants have fallen prey to 'successionist' thinking or rather tying the idea of succession to some kind of institutio...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/waldensianism-before-waldo-the-myth-of-apostolic-protoprotestantism-in-antebe...

I've been unable to find the source for the quote but there's a statement made by someone in the 18th or 19th century about how the ...

https://credomag.com/article/natural-theology-and-van-til/ Classical Theology in this case is in reference to Aristotelian-driven Scholast...

The world is in turmoil and at such a degree and tempo that it's almost impossible to keep up with events. I could post multiple article...

Where to go to church? What is one to do in these troubling times? There are many articles written about this topic. Some are helpful, other...

In many cases his interpretation of culture, politics, and geo-politics will leave the American reader confused. Profoundly conservative, hi...

I recently finished reading James Bratt's 2013 work - Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat. I cannot recommend it enough...

https://americanreformer.org/2023/03/the-case-for-the-laws-first-table/ In this case the American Reformer's Timon Cline is appealing t...

Various news stories continue to emerge suggesting that kids lack self-control when it comes to social media and viewing videos, especially ...

Dolezal's admission of mutabilist language being present in the text and his resort to nonliteral, accommodationist, and anthropomorphic...

https://frame-poythress.org/scholasticism-for-evangelicals-thoughts-on-all-that-is-in-god-by-james-dolezal/ After following the Dolezal-Div...

https://evangelicalfocus.com/multimedia/video/24261/Dan_Strange:_Faith,_work_and_Culture_Wars There's a lot packed into this 12-minute...

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/05/07/1249203297/neoliberal-economics-the-road-to-freedom-or-authoritarianism The report of this l...

https://wng.org/opinions/another-cold-war-1714597247 This typifies the kind of material we have come to expect from Littlejohn - misleadin...

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...

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...