A Calvinist blogger (from the South) posted about wanting to understand his Celtic roots and then listed some books being read to that end.
Calling for a Return to the Doctrinal Ideals and Kingdom Ethics of the First Reformation
30 April 2025
29 April 2025
Bircher Evangelicals Praise Trump and Worship America - Even While They Spurn Zion and Spit on Christ
19 April 2025
Fundamentalism's Baconian Epistemology
I encountered this on a website - an argument against transubstantiation by means of empirical deduction. It reminded me of what some have called the Baconian epistemology of Fundamentalism which is closely related to the Common Sense Realism so dominant in the early days of America. The pastor in question appeals to a perceived problem with the bread....
18 April 2025
A Dutch Reformed Reading of the Cultural Mandate and Psalm 8
Recently I was re-reading a book of essays on Klaas Schilder and on the question of Christ and Culture, NH Gootjes asks if the cultural mandate changed radically after the Fall? Psalm 8 show the opposite, he asserts. 'Man has been given dominion over the works of God's hands (v.6). Man can rule over God's creation as Joseph ruled over Egypt (Gen. 45:8, 26). The psalm reminds us of Genesis 1. Man still has the position in creation as he had in the beginning, sin notwithstanding.'*
05 April 2025
A Parody of Socialism and Whitewash of Capitalism
https://juicyecumenism.com/2024/11/07/answering-socialism/
One need not be an advocate for Socialism to realize that Bernard Mauser is attacking a straw man. If Evangelicals want to offer a critique of socialism, that's fine but if their goal is simply to promote capitalism and to caricature the rival system - then we have a problem not only in the realms of fact and truth, but also with integrity.
02 April 2025
Malachi Martin and Rich Church, Poor Church
Back in the 1990's I used to pick up some Malachi Martin works on occasion. He provides insider information about the Jesuits and the Vatican and while I've never agreed with him, I've always found him to be interesting.
I stumbled on his 1984 work 'Rich Church, Poor Church' in a pile of discount books and since it was only $1.50, I decided to pick it up. It was a work I had never encountered before.