Proto-Protestantism

Calling for a Return to the Doctrinal Ideals and Kingdom Ethics of the First Reformation

28 June 2012

A Significant Date in History

28 June 1914 (updated)

First published in 2010

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Sacralism

or Constantinianism as it is often known in its Christian context.

This error is an often overlooked, but key historical and theological concept defined as:

1.The confluence of church and state wherein one is called upon to change the other.

2.The sanctification of culture. A theological monism viewing Church, State, and Culture as the Kingdom of God on earth.

3.The Body of Christ defined by a combining of Ecclesial, Political, and Cultural Forms.

History and Geopolitics

Afghanistan and the Fall of Saigon
The Trump Acquittal and Post-Trump GOP Hypocrisy
The Trumpite Schism and the Storming of the US Capitol
Asian Tensions and the Clash of Empires: Trump, Xi and the 19th Congress of the CCP
Afghanistan and Iraq at the End of the Trump Era
Trump , Middle Eastern Geopolitics, Switching Alliances and American Absenteeism
Three Shots Fired at Moscow
The End of World War II in Europe: Establishment Narratives and Bircher Conspiracies
The Moscow Abomination, Sacralist Worldview and Memorial Day
Hungary: Orban and the Habsburgs Together
Europe's Ghosts, Essential Questions and the Ever-Problematic Balkans
An Informal ECT Alliance and the Bolivian Coup
Chinese Evangelicals and the NED
A New Phase in the Syria War: The Kurds Betrayed Again and the Turkish Invasion of Rojava
Trump, Ukraine and Impeachment
9/11 Revisited
Far Right AfD Makes Electoral Gains in Germany... Eighty Years After the Start of WWII
Kromiadi, the 1944 Prague Manifesto and Contemporary Alliances
American Evangelicals and European Right-Wing Populism
Refugees, Clashing Empires, Signs of the Times and the Christian Calling
OBOR, Atlanticism and Trumpism
Pompeo, Venezuela's Religious Institutions and Evangelical Exploitation
The False Exposé
Victorian Sacralism and the Roots of 20th Century Evangelicalism
The Evangelical Worldview and the Legend of GHW Bush
The Horn of Africa, Geopolitics and Christian Persectution
Risen, Mueller and the False Expose
Romania and the Prospect of Moldovan Reunification
Deep State Conspiracies: Not in the Anglo-American West
Cracks in the Atlantic Wall
Hanoi and Rome
Neo-McCarthyism and Cold War II
Hungary's Bitter Road Through Modern History
The Jerusalem Embassy, Dispensationalism and American Evangelicalism
Ghosts of WWII: The Murderers Among Us and 1989's Music Box
The General and Luke 16.15
Establishment Civil War
The Head of State and the benefits of Constitutional Monarchy
The Day of Lies
Memorial Day: A Lamentation
Obama the Sociopath, Human Rights and Nuclear Weapons
Pakistan: Imperial Blowback and the Shapur Effect
Saudi Arabia and Iran: 1979
Ghosts of Trieste
The Church in a Time of Endless War, Imperialism and the Destruction of Societies
Metaxas on Bonhoeffer, A Dangerous Misreading
China, Christians and Political Agitation
Presidential Strengths and Weaknesses
The Third Rome, Nevsky and Putin
Allies and Enemies: The Power of the United States
Neo-Byzantinism (Russia and the New/Old Paradigm Wars)
Neo-Ottomanism
Unipolar v. Multipolar Paradigms (The Cold War vis-a-vis History)
Geopolitics- Syria and Russia
Restorationism, Localism and The Sacralist Chasm
Restorationism and Political Ideology
A Strange Sense of Service
Assange, Breivik, a SEAL, and Wicked Hypocrisy
American Christians are more outraged over Socialism than they are a false prophet…
American Evangelicals Beating The War Drum Against Iran
The UN and Colonialism
Emmanuel Goldstein is dead- Bin Laden, Pakistan etc...
The Sacralist Road To Moral Relativism
The Constantinian Dilemma in Egypt
Islam Part 1- A complex of cultures
Islam Part 2- Assimilation Countdown
Islam Part 3- The Devil Went Down To Florida
Vietnam and the Clash of Ignorance
Clash of the Sacralisms
Westboro Baptist, Hyper-Calvinism, and Constantinianism
Holbrooke's Mirror
Romanticism
Mars, Bringer of War
Kavkaz Crisis
America in the Andes
Christo-Trumpism and January 6th
Legacies of Empire
Discerning Babel
Discerning Babel-Addendum
1 September 1939
The Power of War
What does Al-Jazeera have to do with Sacralism?
Sorrow upon Sorrow: Two Kingdoms, Sacralism, Ethics, and Wisdom applied to the question of Afghanistan
Beasts at play- Afghanistan and Cent. Asia pt. 2
Beslan, the Chechens, and the legacy of Sacralist Russia
Beslan pt. 2
Greeks, Turks, and Two Kingdoms
28 June 1914
Milley, The Deep State, and the Present Crisis
Macron and the New Edict of Fontainebleau
The Establishment's Suppression of the January 6 Investigation
A Dominionist-Evangelical Distortion of Haiti's Sad History
Scott Morrison, Dominionism, and Evangelical Politics in Australia
The Geopolitics of the Kazakhstan Protests, the Ukraine Crisis, and Eurasia's New Cold War
The Ukraine Trap
Memories of 1983 and an NPR Report on Russian Activity in Latin America
Thinking Several Moves Ahead: Geopolitical Maneuvering and History's Warnings in Light of The Ukraine War
The Meloni Problem
Sundry Thoughts and Reflections on the Queen's Death
The War Option, the Calculus of Empire, and the Dreams of Madmen
The Consecration of Russia and Fatima
The Wider Implications of The Ukraine War
Churchill's Christian Civilization
Musing on The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance and Forty Years that Shook the World
Atlanticism's Attempt to Curtail the Rise of Europe and a Multi-Polar World

Society and Culture

The Shadow State is Alive and Well
Evangelicalism and A Hidden Life (2019)
The Role of Scepticism and the Shift to the Right in Mainstream American Politics
What The Great Reset Is and Isn't
Mammon and the Accommodationist Triad
The Christian Response to Cancel Culture
Providence, Power, and Second-Class Citizenship
Christianity, Homeschooling and the Collapse of French Pluralism
Supreme Ironies: The Coney Barrett Nomination
Anti-Masking, 9/11, and Nero
Libertarianism and the Oligarchic Progression
The Covid-19 Protests
The Lessons of Herbert Hoover and Capitalism
The Dynamics and Ethics of Lawbreaking
Wal-Mart and the Library of Sodom
O'Rourke and the Tax-Exempt Evangelicals
Investment and Insulated Exploitation
The RICO Dragnet and its Dangers
Evangelical Manipulation of the Population Debate
Orwell and the Bolivarian Dream: When the Law Becomes Sin
Historical Lessons not Learned: British Nonconformity
Legislation as a Form of Pedagogy
Revisions and Reversals
The TSA, Bureaucracy and Permanent War
Caesar's Coin and the Demise of Transactional Autonomy
Evangelicals, Finances and Social Norms
Financialisation and a Small Rust Belt City
Embracing Dystopia: Reflections on the Ascendancy of Amazon and the Signs of the Times
Homeschool Hit Pieces
Considering the Panopticon Beast
Feminism in High Gear: Pence's Rule and The Church in an Age of Scandal
Urban Christianity: Chelcicky vs. Keller
Rome, Classical Liberalism and Sola Scriptura
Mystery, Logic, Engineering and Neo-Luddism
Feminism Repackaged, Revised and... Re-claimed?
Tolkien, Liberalism and Modernity
The Rise of the New Religion
Identity Politics and the Myth of Cultural Marxism
The Sanctification of Social Conformity
The Dynamic Principle
Rust Belt Appalachia Musings
Finance Capital and the Real Economy
Evidence and the Rule of Law
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Evangelicalism and Homosexuality: Compromise and Conflict
Zuckerberg
Arlington Cemetery: Tribalism and Idealism
Psyops and State Idolatry
Imperial Narratives, Urban Planning and Architecture
Imperialist Wars, Conscription and Democracy
The US Fifth Republic
The False Narratives of Meese, Scalia and Originalism
Evangelical Compromise and Wheaton College
Narratives and Villains in Kruse's One Nation Under God
The Myth of Principled Power
A Most Wanted Man: The Myth of Principled Power II
Sins More Grievous Than Sodomite Marriage (Babylonian Bureaucrat Pt2)
The Travails of a Babylonian Bureaucrat
The Corrupt System and the Distraction of Wrangling Over Taxes and Subsidies
Reflections on Evil in the World
John MacArthur, Romans 13 and Law Enforcement
The Christian Response to Bestial Regimes
Bearing Witness in Sodom
Time is of Far Greater Value Than Money
Better Be Hypocrites Than Profane
Christian Anarchism? Was Chelcicky a Christian Anarchist?
Law Systemic Violence and Societal Institutions
Technology Tangles: Ethics, Politics and Euthanasia
Should Christians Vote?
Christian Schools in Britain: Crisis
My Trip to Amishland
Middle Class Aspirations, Globalization, Huntington's Thesis and the Church
Middle Class Values and the American Church
The Failure of the Academy
The Federal Reserve and the World System
Allegiance to Power
DeMint's Dream and Reality
Jury Nullification
Brave New Dystopia
Revisionism and Civil Rights
Postmodern Fascists?
The Baptism of Self-Indulgence
Perchik's Hermeneutic and the Politicization of Everything
The Role of Conservative Think Tanks
Propaganda Mills, Thinks Tanks and the Christian Right
Sacralism, the Culture War and the Marketing of the Gospel
Profits and Social Stability
Common Tax Deceptions
Pilgrim Sociology and the Martyr-Prophetic Voice
The Cancer of Militarism
The Economics of Empire
Money's Ethos and Essence- Security and Power
Social Parasites Part 1
The Babel Impulse
Not Quite Definitively Defining Definite Definitions
Homosexual Marriage
Conscientious Objection in Turkey
Power
Constantine Can't Rescue Britain
Civil Rights and Evangelical Revisionism
Days in the Cult
Constantinian Power Ethics
Colson's Victory
The Far Left Conspiracy To Install A Centrist President?
Establishment Media
Saul's Politics
Saul's Politics Part 2
Legacies of Ordered Liberty- The Anglo-Norman Tradition
Contemporary Iconoclasm: Cancel Culture and Statue Removal
The System and Racism
The Christian-Right and the Rittenhouse Acquittal
The Fragmentation of the Social Order
The Complicated Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Right's Revisionism and Deceitful Appropriation of His Message
Turning Point USA and Donald Trump Jr.'s Unintentional Truth
Cawthorn and the Testimony of the Dominionist Homeschool Movement
Dominionism and the School Board Strategy
The Dark Side of Covid – The Establishment's Reordering of Society
The False Dilemma of the 2022 Election
Inflation as a Tool and the Spectre of Corporatism
Public School is Not an Option for Christians
An Immigrant Tragedy
Biden's Independence Hall Speech and the Evangelical Response
Dobbs v. Jackson: A Pyrrhic Victory at Best
Chimeric Experimentation and the Bioethics of the Pro-Life Movement
Texas, Florida, and Anti-Sodomy Laws: Some Theological Dangers and Warnings
Cheap Grace and Peace with the World
Kids Leaving Home and Middle Class Assumptions
The Synagogue Shooter and the Death Penalty
The Collapse of Yellow and its Context
A Libertarian Perspective on Food Freedom
Conspiracies versus Conspiracy as a Worldview: The Epistemological and Ethical Rot of Libertarianism

Theologia

Pending Crises and Doctrinal Corollaries Viewed Through a First Reformational Lens
A Final Appeal: The First Reformation Applied to the Contemporary Context
An Indictment of Evangelicalism in Light of the First Reformation Imperative
The Moral Law: Ezekiel 20, the Sabbath, and the Decalogue
Transgressing the Celestial Order
The Last Prophet and the Implications of the Terminal Epoch
Evangelicals and Their Children: The Crisis of Kids at Home
Cultural Christianity or Antithesis: Means, Sanctification and Kingdom Growth
The Hospitality Argument Regarding the Angels and Sodom
Jeremiah 3: Covenant Lands and Kerygma Colonies
Leviticus and Redemptive History
Heiser's Unseen Realm and The Divine Council
Habakkuk and Redemptive-History
Sabbath and Dominion: New Calvinism and the Question of the Mundane
Confessionalism's Embrace of Progressive Theology and Historiography
LaHaye's Victory and The Psychotropic Imperative
Aeons Contrasted: Kingdom Visions in Conflict
Pentecost and the Framework of Redemptive History
Apocalypticism
Prophetic Idiom, Perspective and Isaiah 65
Depictions of Christ
4 Types of Christian, 4 Gospels and the Adulteration of the Visible Church
Modern Evangelicalism and the Chicago Compromise
Final Salvation and Today's Calvinism
Saving Faith and the Question of Works
The New Testament and the Septuagint
Interpreting Augustine's City of God
Christian Nonviolence and Pacifism: Some Badly Needed Clarifications
The Woman's Desire
Today's NIV
Sacralism and the Invitation System
Jeroboam's Altar and Christo-Americanism
Solomon's Basilica: Church Buildings and Confusion
Dispensationalism, the Restrainer and the NKJV
Paul, The Cretans and Social Sins
The Razor's Edge: Covenant Faithfulness and Apostasy
Criticisms of Klinean Republication
Signs and Symbols: Israel and Covenant in Rom 9
The Law-Gospel Hermeneutic and The Great Commission
The Reality of the Demonic
The Cultural Mandate
Revisiting Evangelicals and Catholics Together
Constantine Defended and Revisited
Visions of Jesus and Charismatic Christianity
What about Bible Translations?
Dominionism, Dallas and the New Ecumenical Movement
Lamech and the Evangelical Culture of Death
Stewardship and Parable Inversion
Prophetic Idiom, Perspective and Redemptive History
Daniel's Vision of the Ten Toes, Dispensationalism and Biblical Numerology
The Poverty of Hyper-Literalism
Postmillennialism and the Gates of Hell
Countering the Claims of the Watchtower Society
Two Articles on Reformed Two Kingdom Theology
The Altar Call of 1776
The Marketplace Becomes Zion and other errors
Angels of Light/ Agents of Babylon
Trinitarian Controversies
The Celebration of War in American Liturgy
Patriotism is Harlotry
Truth, Myth and the Baptizing of Lies
Sacral Syncretism- Lessons from the High Places
Vocation and the False Kingdom (Worldliness as Piety)
Vocation and the Prosperity Gospel
The Kuyperian Roadblock
Dissecting Stellman's Apostasy
The Two-Age Structure and Chiliasm
Restorationism
Restorationism- How Far Back?
Restorationism and The Kingdom in History
Stone-Campbell and Musical Instruments
Restoration, Anabaptists and the Constantinian Shift
The Criteria of Criticism
The Framework Hypothesis
Focus On Sacral Jurisprudence
Hypersolafideism (series)
Saving Faith, Temporary Faith, and Justification by Faith
Justification Controversies in Contemporary Reformed Protestantism
Dominionism (Definitions)
The Babel Impulse
Going Down to Egypt
Going Down to Egypt pt2- The Limits of the Common Order
Abusing the Imprecatory Psalms
Pilgrims in Babylon
Replacement Theology I
Replacement Theology II
Replacement Theology III
Maurina's Critique of www.proto-protestantism. blogspot.com
Advancing the Kingdom pt.1- The Error of Pietism
Advancing the Kingdom pt.2- The Error of Transformation.
Advancing the Kingdom pt.3- The Sacralist Hybrid
Advancing the Kingdom pt.4- The Parsing of American Evangelicalism
Advancing the Kingdom pt.4a Supplement on Imminency
Advancing the Kingdom pt.5- Building the Kingdom
Advancing the Kingdom pt.6- Winning by losing
Vocational Error
Nothing new under the sun pt.1
Nothing new under the sun pt. 2
Nothing new under the sun pt.3
Nothing new under the sun pt.4
My Frustration
Common Grace Culture
The Good Old Days
5 Point Reductionism pt.1
5 Point Reductionism pt. 2 - Method and the danger of meta-system
5 Point Reductionism pt. 3
Two Kingdoms and Separatism
Johnson's Primer: Discussion, Expansion, and Solution
How am I using the term hyper-Calvinism?
Revelation 18: The Merchant Princes of Babylon, Their Sorceries, Mammon and Medicine
An Appeal to the Watchtower Society and Former Members of the Jehovah's Witnesses
Secular Psychology and the Denial of Scriptural Authority
Sola Scriptura and Divine Simplicity
Scholasticism and Muller's Concession
Saving Christendom by Repackaging the Roman Beast
Rejecting the Aquinas Jubilee
The Evangelical Roots of New Calvinism
Belgic Article XXXVI and Kuyperianism

Ecclesiastica

MacArthur's Flawed Stand Regarding the Church, State and Covid-19
The Membership-Marriage Fallacy and Other Ecclesiastical Sophisms
Membership Chaos within the Confessional Presbyterian Context
Coronavirus: Ecclesiastical Developments
Coronavirus Ecclesiology
Facebook Church
The Amazon Synod
The Feminist Surge
An Encounter with a Church Consultant
Disquiet in the Southern Baptist Convention
The Presbyterian Fallacy
Corporate vs. Individual Boycotts
Baptist Polity, the American Flag and Idols in Worship
Denomination Clarification
The Denomination Dilemma
The Battle Over Quiet Time
Dialogical Liturgy, Temple Emulation and Presbyterian Priestcraft
Letter to a Presbyterian Pastor
The Presbyterian Problem
Church Membership
The Need For Church and my problems with Presbyterianism
Form Takes Over
Clericalism on Diplay
Submission and Authority
Ecclesia #7: Pragmatics
Answering Questions 8a- Confessions and Polity
A Broken Ecclesiology
A Recent Visit to an Evangelical Congregation
New Calvinism, Evangelicalism, and Trump Era Schisms
The Deacon Problem in Both Anglican and Baptist Circles
Flags in the Church
Ignatius on Worship as Spiritual Warfare
The BCO or Presbyterianism's Canon Law
Sacralist Judaizing and Church Architecture
A Fundamentalist Elegy
The UCC Backlash: Conservative remnants within old Congregationalist, Hungarian, and German Reformed Congregations
Confessional Presbyterianism: A System of Syncretism, Tradition, and Bureaucracy
Another Exchange with an Evangelical Pastor
Antithesis and Small Town Church Dynamics
A Rather Foolish Argument for Creedalism
More Presbyterian Shenanigans

Inbox

Wilberforce
Utilising the Decalogue
A Gospel Tract
Chan, Communion and Transubstantiation
Foreign Affairs and Geopolitics
Kingdom Clarity and Soteriological Fog
Daniel and the Beastly Magistrate
The Social Justice Controversy
Problems with Sola Scriptura
Christians and Tattoos
Middle Class Values
The Right and Wrong of NT Wright
Neo-Evangelicalism
What does it mean to speak prophetically?
Finance Capital and Why I don't have a 401K
ISIS,Turkey and Espionage
Lutheranism, Kuyper and The Two Kingdoms
Write a book?
Media Sources
If Sacralism is in Error Why Study the World System?
The Theology of John MacArthur
Acts 19 and Cultural Transformation
Erastus the Chamberlain
The Book of Revelation as a Justification for High Church Liturgy
A Psychology Follow-up
Romans 9 and Paul's Affection for Israel as a Justification for Patriotism
Usury and Related Questions
Paul, Timothy, and the Case for Christian Rulers
Rights Based Ethics and the Evangelical Movement
The Glory of the Nations in Revelation 21 and the Question of Eschatological Continuity
Questions Concerning The Apocrypha
Protestantism as Progress
Christian Kids in State Colleges
Can an Unbaptized person take Communion?
The Northern Kingdom Analogy Expanded

Judaizing and Paganizing: The Keeping Of Days

Calvinist Narratives, 19th Century Princeton and Christmas
Twisting Scripture and History to Justify Christmas
Christmas: Obfuscation and the Lord's Day Gambit
Christmas: Dan and Bethel Revived
American Thanksgiving: Civic Deism at Best
Questions for Christmas Keepers and Celebrants
Sabbatarian Hermeneutics
The Re-Christianization of Valentine's Day
All Sacralist's Eve (Halloween)
Halloween 2011 and Lutheran Public Radio
Thanksgiving Day 2010
Christmas 2010
Nativities, Nestorianism, and Redemptive History
Christmas 2011
Christmas as a Federal Holiday 1
Christmas as a Federal Holiday 2
Christmas as a Federal Holiday 3
Something of a Diatribe on Tombs, Monuments, Traditions and Authority
Christmas Communion and the Incarnation
Christmas Communion and the Incarnation 2
Easter and Holy Week Part 1
Easter Part 2- Binding the Conscience
The Temptation of the Tactile
Easter (Authority, Canon, and Text)
The Spirit in which I say these things
Christmas 2021: AOC Shames the Evangelicals
A Thanksgiving Model that Must be Rejected

Bible Fellowship Articles

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The Alternative to Dispensationalism
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The need for a new congregation
Are Bible Churches Necessarily Fundamentalist?
Visitor Expectations
Church Government, Regular and Provisional

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Church History

The History of the Protestant Church in Hungary
Magisterial Protestantism's Cultural Legacy and Aesthetic Schizophrenia
The First Reformation and the Present Crisis
Pluralism, Modernity, and the Third Constantinian Shift
The Legacy of the Second Constantinian Shift and the Threat of Secularism
First Reformation Primitivism and the Second Constantinian Shift
The First Reformation versus Twentieth Century Dominionism
The First Reformation and Magisterial Reformation Contrasted
Waldensian Historiography
The Hussite Spectrum
The First Reformation
Dissent Before the Gregorian Reform and the Placement of Celtic Christianity
The Oracular Mark and Historiography
Metanarratives of Church History: Mercersburg, Confessionalism, and Landmarkism
Testimonies of Early Dissent
Nevin's Early Christianity
Recovering the First Reformation - A Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (series)
Petr Chelčický: A Medieval Biblicist and Rustic Philosopher
John Owen and Oliver Cromwell's Irish Campaign of 1649
BK Kuiper and Sacralist Historiography
The Moravian Way: Pilgrim Missiology vs. Magisterial Dominionism
American Dominionism and Europe's Evangelicals
A Generation Passes
Christian Historiography, Recurring Patterns and Interpreting Current Events
Zeisberger and the Moravians
Claudius of Turin and the Cross
Pietism, Higher Criticism and the Prussian Union of 1817
Five Centuries of Calvin
Proto-Protestantism: Narratives and Nomenclature
Idelette De Bure and Legitimate Marriage
Spinning the Reformation
The Venetian Refuge
American Church Histories
War and Scepticism (Thirty Years War)
The Real Issue Behind the Pseudo-Isidorean Decretals
The Reformation: Romanticism and Reality
Petr Chelcicky
The Passau Anonymous and the Waldensians
Friedrich Reiser
Proto-protestants and Sacralism
EW Hengstenberg
Sola Scriptura, Literacy and The Middle Ages
Origins of Lollardy
In times of interdict, the heretics rejoice
The Logistics of the Medieval Underground
Arthur Pink
The Nobla Leycon
Mercersburg and Hegelian Historiography
Waldensians pt. 1
Waldensians pt. 2
Romantic Castles and Cathedrals
The Testimony of IC Herendeen and WWI
The Unity of the Brethren and the Magisterial Reformation
Chiliasm, Totalitarian Cults, and The Pursuit of the Millennium
Gems from The Shepherd of Hermas
Revisiting Revisiting Constantine
The Unity of the Brethren before The Thirty Years War
Melia and The Waldenses
Berkhof on the Early Church
Vigilantius and the New Piety
Postmillennial Clash: American Theonomy and British Whig-Revivalism
The Gnadenhutten Massacre
Lying Missionaries and Brutalised Victims of Their Times: A Revisionist Historian Spins the Gnadenhutten Massacre
Richard Bennett on the Waldensians
Norwich's History of the Papacy
Historical Cycles: The Post-Napoleonic Context of Adolphe Monod, Reveil, and Some Contemporary Analogies
Cessationism, the Charismata, and Messy Chapters in Church History

Polemics

Judaizing and Reductionism: An Interaction with MacArthurite Hermeneutics
Bercot's Covid Ethics: Practical Wisdom and Shortcomings
A Postmortem on Covid Postmortems
The Kamala Harris Tweet, Memorial Day Weekend, and Right-wing Political Correctness
Biden's Victory: Despair and the Moment
Sham Comfort from a Sham Pilgrim
Metaxas, Bonhoeffer, and Trumpism
The Covid Crisis in the Church at the End of 2020
The Blind Facilitators
High Place Hermeneutics
Anabaptist Storm Clouds on the Horizon
A Heretic Born on the Fifth of July
Revisiting World Magazine and Olasky's Social Calvinism
Blind Leading the Blind: Frank Wright's Criticism of Evangelicals
Stonestreet's Anti-Feminism: An Endorsement of Feminism
Mohlerian Hermeneutics and Coronavirus Theology
Francis Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live?
Trueman, Biblicism and Oberman's Contrived Tradition Schema
Stonestreet's Hat Trick
Wang Yi isn't being Persecuted, He's Being Punished
Bad Analogies of Masculinity: The Warrior Ethos vs. New Testament Manliness
Mythical Animals, Secular Analysis of Religion and the Anti-Sacral Uniqueness of New Testament Christianity
More Disease Ridden Cures: Attacking Lausanne From the Right
An Example of Kuyperian Two Kingdom Theology Applied
Bakker, Barton and the Americanist Baal
Disease Ridden Cures: Anti-Social Justice Warriors and Deceit
The Godly Usurers
Lausanne's Unequivocal Dominionism: The Legacy of Billy Graham
Purity Culture Revisited
The Poway Shooter, Replacement Theology and Anti-Semitism
The Social Justice Controversy: Poway, R2K and Sacralism
The 2007 PCA GA Debate on Federal Vision
The Fool Wang Yi and the Dark Side of Calvinism
The Lausanne Harvest (1974-2019)
The Cruelty of Theonomy and its Counterfeit Zion
Vocation, Dominion and the Banner of Truth
American Evangelicalism, China and all things Eurasia
Washer's Ten Indictments: Critiquing the Critics
Sasse: A Danger and Disgrace to Protestant Testimony
New Calvinism versus The Watchtower Society
A Theonomic Clash
The Leaven of Evangelical Sacralism: A Warning Regarding Judaized Politics and the Hypocrisy it Breeds
A Clash of Protestant Intellectual Traditions and Metanarratives
Roy Moore and Old Testament Law
Gnosticism through a Dominionist Lens
Lutheran Sacralism: Veith on Economics
A Lutheran Interpretation of Reformed Two-Kingdom Theology
2016: Theonomy Revisited
Desperate Attempts to Refute Two Kingdom Theology
MacArthur's Grave Error
MacArthur's Warning
A Pseudo-Two Kingdom's Debate
Mohler's Sacralist Commentaries
Neo-Anabaptists or Historical Anti-Constantinianism?
The Shared Worldview of Albert Mohler and Bob Costas
Veith and Mefferd on Fascism
Humble Pride- Conversation with a Mennonite
Worldwide Persecution, Sacralism and Colson/Metaxas
Sparring with an Elder
Michelle Bachmann and Dominionism
'Christian' news, radio, and commentators
Building the Kingdom through residential architecture?
Radio Free Babel
FN Lee
Dominionist Confusion- An Interaction With IronInk
Discerning Discernment Ministries P1
The Telos of Sacralism- An interaction with Duigon's view of the Crusades
The Law of Non-Contradiction
Responding to a member of the McIntire Faction
Evangelicalism's Deistic Response to the Japan Catastrophe
A clever attempt to refute Two Kingdom Theology
The Good Samaritan Killed to Save the Injured Man
A Kingdom discussion at GreenBaggins
Horns like a lamb with the voice of a dragon
Is Kerby Anderson a Christian?
Propaganda Indeed!
Babylon Becomes Zion- Marinov's Praise of Constantinianism
Colson gets the Middle East wrong...on purpose.
Cronkrite's Kingdom: A Response
A critique of a Theonomic site claiming to stand for Christian Politics
An Interaction with a Theonomist regarding Socialism
Propaganda Indeed!
An exchange on IronInk
IronInk pt. 2
Discussions with a Van Tillian regarding Worldview
Interacting with Theonomists
Helm on Vocation
Siemon-Nietto on Vietnam: No Wisdom Gained
Covid and False Gospels
Barna and Marxism
Kovalik on the American Empire and its March to War
The Dissemination of Vigano's Warning – A Warning to all New Testament Christians
A Misreading of Paul in Acts 16 and the Larger Question of Legal Rights
The Last of the Theonomic Three: Scary Gary North (1942-2022)
The Failure of New Calvinist Apologetics
More Right-Wing Rehabilitation, Revision, and Anachronism Concerning the Crusades
We Were Soldiers and Mel Gibson's Cinematic Lies
Trueman: A Little Late to the Antithesis Game
Dominionism and the Tucker Carlson School of Homiletics
Dominionist Eisegesis and Doctrinal Cowardice
Truth Obscured: An Exchange Between Arnzen and Boot
The Frankfurt Declaration: Its Disordered Assumptions, Deceit, and Dangers
A Theonomic Critique of Lee Irons: A Primer in Flawed Theological Method
Responding to Kenneth Bailey on the Role of Women in the New Testament
The Dynamics of Perseverance
The Counsels of Mammon
Two Kingdoms and the Reformed Tradition
Desiring to be Teachers of the Law
Glorying in their Shame: Celebrating the Magisterial Reformation's Sacral Heritage
A Pastoral Rebuke of a Different Kind
The Persistent Myth Regarding Moscow and Covid
Evangelicalism's Outsourced Worldview
A Recurring Exegetical Error Regarding Exercise
Discerning Trueman's Confusion

Philosophia and Prolegomena

Dangerous Roads in the Realm of Natural Theology
An Aesthetic both Transient and Transcendent
Last Days Dualities and the Cult of Monism
An Elaboration of Biblicism
Trinitarian Nomenclature, Progressive Orthodoxy and the Sufficiency of Scripture
A Study in Fools
Prolegomena and the Question of Final Salvation
Biblical Studies: Slipping into Reductionism?
Ockham's Razor, Scepticism and Biblicism
Riddles of Fundamentalism: Modernist Epistemology and the Question of Biblicism
The Cosmology of Tolkien
Materialism, Nihilism and the Subjective
Biblicism, Transgenderism and Epistemological Chaos
Monistic and Dualistic Epistemologies, Aritifical Intelligence
Negativity and Relational Epistemology
Revelation and Nature
A Few Clarifications Regarding Philosophy and Christian Theology
A Hermeneutical Key From Augustine Part 1
Augustine and Hermeneutics 2
Hermeneutics 3
Dialectical Hermeneutics (Part 4)
A Concise Apologia for Syllabic Prose as a legitimate form of Poetic Verse
Wanderings 1
Wanderings 2
Wanderings 3
Wanderings 4
Logic and Empiricism
Dialectical Theology
Aristotle's Razor
The Theological-Philosophical Dialectic
Wanderings 5a
Answering Questions #2- Mystery and Eastern v. Western Thought
Dominionism (Foundational Issues) N.B. this is a long post
Answering Questions #14- The Law of Non-Contradiction and its theological results
Answering Questions #17- Calvin v. The Calvinists, The Renaissance and Reformed Scholasticism, Orthodoxy, Armstrong, Amyraut and Muller…Incomprehensibility and the nature of Theology.
Reflecting on Psalm 19: The Law of Nature, Phenomenological Language, and Duality
Finding Meaning in History and the Dangers of Historicism
Limited Epistemology and the Place of the Lost in Cosmology

Miscellaneous

The PBS Documentary on Billy Graham
The Burning of Bibles and the Evangelical Response
Opposition versus Oppositional Journalism
A Confused but Instructive Narrative Regarding Dominionism and its Effects
A Heartfelt Offering of Thanks to Josh Harris
Supermarket Sacrilege
A Bird's Nest and the Limits of Compassion
Princeton Seminary: Twenty Years of Reflection
The Criminal Syndicate Known as Verizon
Observing Two Deaths and Putting Them Into Context
Dissecting the News and Christian Anti-Intellectualism
Some thoughts on news coverage etc...
Negativity, Interpretation and Agenda
Tribalism, History and Old Photos
Learning to ask the right questions as we interact with the past and present
The International Audience, Cultural Influences, and a note regarding Scripture
An Account of Evangelicalism's Continued Decline
A Broken Back to the Glory of God
Feeling Better About America

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