Showing posts with label Banner of Truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banner of Truth. Show all posts

27 July 2021

Helm on Vocation

https://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2021/the-christian-mans-calling/

Helm begins by arguing that Evangelicals have adopted an essentially gnostic view of Creation and Redemption and a non-Christian anthropology. These claims are regularly made by Dominionist-minded thinkers and yet I have yet to find anyone who actually holds to these views. For nigh on forty years the Christian Right has laboured to eradicate them – largely straw men to begin with – and they have been successful. The attack is against new straw men they have substituted for the real problems they face.

23 December 2018

Victorian Sacralism and the Roots of 20th Century Evangelicalism


I have frequently mentioned and praised Iain Murray's Evangelicalism Divided, his often astute chronicle and analysis of 20th century Evangelicalism and the roots of its decay.
Nevertheless I know from Murray's other works that he remains an advocate of the 'Christian' West and in particular Christian Britain. While his vision and means of accomplishing and maintaining this reality differs on certain levels from the Evangelical project, they are in effect related and perhaps more closely than Murray would be willing to grant.

13 October 2018

Vocation, Dominion and The Banner of Truth (Part 2)


Cyber-security isn't 'loving others' any more than is banking, delivering mail or building stairs. Some (and only some) of these jobs can become 'loving' if they're done gratuitously. That's an aspect of ministry or Christian service.

Vocation, Dominion and The Banner of Truth (Part 1)


I apologise in advance to long-time readers. This interaction will probably prove redundant but I do it anyway, hoping that maybe a few new readers will be grabbed by what I'm saying and turn away from a pernicious but popular error and one of the rotten harvests of the Reformation.

14 April 2013

Baker's Banner of Truth Commentary- A Corruption of the Kingdom (Part 2 of 2)

Baker’s Banner of Truth Commentary- A Corruption of the Kingdom (Part 1 of 2)

Some readers will not be familiar with the Banner of Truth. This publishing house was founded in 1957 by Iain Murray and others and played a key role in republishing old Puritan and Reformed works. By the dawn of the 20th century these old works were hard to find and one had to comb through old dusty bookshops in hope of locating them. Today these writings are once more widespread and undoubtedly ‘The Banner’ played no small role in the revival of Reformed Christianity in the latter part of the 20th century.