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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31 July 2026
Mary de Rachewiltz, Ezra Pound, and the Battle for Western Civilization
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Mary de Rachewiltz (1925-2026) has died at the age of 101. She wasn't exactly a household name but as the daughter of Ezra Pound and Olg...
09 July 2026
Framing the Magisterial Reformation from a Lutheran Perspective
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https://issuesetc.org/2026/05/25/the-uniqueness-of-the-lutheran-reformation-dr-jordan-cooper-5-25-26-1452-encore/ For the most part I appre...
03 July 2026
Sola Scriptura and The Spectrum of Scriptural Authority (VI): Revelatory Correspondence, Text, Canon, and Conclusions
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In terms of philosophical analogy, the Biblicism being advocated here is akin to the Correspondence Theory of Truth - the Logos-Scriptures b...
Sola Scriptura and The Spectrum of Scriptural Authority (V): The Holy Spirit, Epistemological Poverty, and True New Covenant Biblicism
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We've considered various Sola Scriptura camps that are found wanting in their claims as well as briefly touching on some of the groups t...
Sola Scriptura and The Spectrum of Scriptural Authority (IV): Hyper-Literalism, Rationalism, and Prima Scriptura
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To some extent the rise of Dispensationalism in the early 20th century can be understood as an expression of this same reaction-to-liberalis...
Sola Scriptura and The Spectrum of Scriptural Authority (III): Academic Evangelicalism, Barth, and the Theological Modernism
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This sphere of discussion is both delicate and frustrating as these well-meaning folks are (in some respects) upholding Scripture and yet pu...
Sola Scriptura and The Spectrum of Scriptural Authority (II): Lutheran Apocrypha, Fundamentalist Epistemology, and Evangelical Compromise
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We must also mention the somewhat unusual structuring of Lutheran conceptions of Sola Scriptura - something a lot of people are unaware of. ...
Sola Scriptura and The Spectrum of Scriptural Authority (I): Initial Considerations and Confessionalism
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Author Brian Godawa appeared on my radar back in the early 2000's when Christian publications called attention to his participation in t...
26 June 2026
The Clarkian-Gnostic Freemasonry
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Recently I was in a used book store and stumbled across Christianity and Neo-Liberalism by Paul Elliott (published by the Trinity Foundatio...
30 May 2026
Vos and the Two-Age Ethics of Redemptive-Historical Theology
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https://reformedforum.org/vos-and-neo-calvinism-rethinking-a-transatlantic-identity/ Bucey provides some helpful analysis regarding this ra...
15 May 2026
Twisting the Scriptures, Undermining Biblical Principles, and the Supposed Stewardship of Voting (II)
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Woods' appeals to New Testament limits on state power are also guilty of non sequitur. He confuses a Christian ethic and call to bear wi...
Twisting the Scriptures, Undermining Biblical Principles, and the Supposed Stewardship of Voting (I)
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https://www.vcy.org/crosstalk/2026/02/24/the-bible-and-your-vote/ If you can stomach it, listen to this episode of CrossTalk - or more prop...
08 May 2026
A Misrepresentation of Western Art
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https://cne.news/article/4938-how-arts-draw-europe-back-to-paganism This article struck me as rather strange. In many respects I can resona...
03 May 2026
Deconstructing Dolezal
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https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/book-review/not-god-divine-simplicity-simple/ I appreciated this review of James Dolezal's 2017 work ...
02 May 2026
Calvinism's Inability to Reckon With Apostasy
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https://philosophical-theology.com/2025/10/17/abandoning-the-faith-in-college-really/ DiGiacomo finds parental discourse surrounding the is...
15 April 2026
Psychology, the Re-framing of Evangelical Parenting, and Roads to Apostasy
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https://religionnews.com/2025/10/09/new-book-debunks-spanking-and-the-myths-of-christian-parenting/ https://religionnews.com/2024/05/30/adu...
22 March 2026
Market Machinations, Wall Street, and the Ethics of Profit
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The BBC recently interviewed a farmer in the American Midwest. He was upset over rising fertilizer prices connected to the Iran War. The mar...
07 March 2026
Honest to God, Bonhoeffer, and Metaxas
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https://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1011-76012018000100013 I think I first encountered JAT Robinson (1919-1983...
27 February 2026
Christianity and Cynicism: Nonconformity, Dissent, and Defacing the Coin
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Historians have long debated the relationship between the Cynics and early Christianity. There are some striking similarities to be found in...
25 February 2026
The Deceitfulness of Riches
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https://petehurst.com/prosperity-the-big-lie-and-the-big-truth/ https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-sweet-taste-of-vomit.ht...
17 February 2026
The False Exegesis and Idolatry of House Speaker Mike Johnson
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https://reformedpolitics.substack.com/p/a-christian-case-for-borders Apparently PCA pastor David Hall was so moved by Speaker Mike Johnson...
15 February 2026
A Confessional Presbyterian Revels in Idolatry, Nationalism, Apostasy, and Trump
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https://reformedpolitics.substack.com/p/religious-gains-2025 Hall's work has been repeatedly promoted on websites like The Aquila Repor...
04 February 2026
Secular Humanism and Neuro-Nonsense
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The other day while driving I picked up an AM radio station out of Toronto and heard an interview with an expert on neurogenerosity - which ...
31 January 2026
The Sufficiency of Scripture, the Christian Life, and the Rejection of Psychology
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https://churchandfamilylife.com/sermons/6952196ce386b6135c21f915 As regular readers of my websites will know, I am not a fan of Scott Brown...
26 January 2026
A Sure Formula for Self-Deception - Direct Realism's Road to Monism, Materialism, and Pantheism
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https://theopolisinstitute.com/leithart_post/epistemological-dualism/ Right from the onset I disagree with Meek's airtight definitions ...
12 January 2026
The Bogus Case for Cathedrals
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/18/why-christians-should-build-cathedrals/ Nathanael Blake, the author of this piece was recently on LPR...
01 January 2026
The Life and Times of IC Herendeen
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https://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-I-C-Herendeen/dp/B0FJZ4ZFY7 I am pleased to endorse this 2025 work authored by my son, Isaac. It would se...
25 December 2025
The Historical Canon of the Waldenses, Charism, and the First Reformation
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https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-troubling-revival-of-historic-anti.html As I have recently indicated, the hijacking of th...
07 December 2025
The Church in Dark Ages - A Call to Dissent and Nonconformity (IV)
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What are the options? To be frank, there aren't many. We can look to the Confessionalist churches within the Reformed, Lutheran, and Ang...
The Church in Dark Ages - A Call to Dissent and Nonconformity (III)
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Evangelicals have frequently looked askance at Roman Catholic scholastic theology and its long tradition of philosophical syncretism - and w...
The Church in Dark Ages - A Call to Dissent and Nonconformity (II)
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Medieval Romanism formulated its notions of law and justice in terms of a fusion between old Roman jurisprudence and the tribal codes and cu...
The Church in Dark Ages - A Call to Dissent and Nonconformity (I)
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or, An Examination of the Twin Sisters of Medieval Roman Catholicism and American Evangelicalism Evangelicalism has moved much closer to R...
26 November 2025
Piety and an Oversimplified Dichotomy
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https://christoverall.com/article/concise/which-way-christian-a-contrast-of-david-platts-radical-and-michael-hortons-ordinary/ Chad Lawrenc...
23 November 2025
Ghosts of Weimar: A Lament for Lutherans Struck Blind
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I found myself frustrated listening to a couple of Missouri-Synod pastors discussing what they called The American Interim - an attempt to d...
22 November 2025
My Kingdom is Not of This World
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There are few books out there that I would fully endorse, but Joshua Immanuel's 2024 work - My Kingdom is Not of This World is one of th...
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