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05 July 2023

The UCC Backlash: Conservative remnants within old Congregationalist, Hungarian, and German Reformed Congregations

https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/june-15-2023-show-with-ed-boyle-micah-clouse-on-is-there-hope-for-the-united-church-of-christ/

A recent episode of Iron Sharpens Iron caught my eye as it called attention to some of the conservative remnants and their resistance to theological liberalism within the United Church of Christ (UCC).

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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
  • Albright's War to Break Yugoslavia
  • Closing the Book on the Assange Era
  • China and the Christian Right's Framing of Cold War 2.0
  • October 2024: The Multi-Faceted Crisis and the Spectre of Global War
  • Revisiting Citizen Four
  • The Shattering of Syria
  • Blair, the Roman Beast, and The Mark
  • A Chronicle of Lies
  • Spinning Israel, Anti-Semitism, and the Los Angeles Riots
  • Erdogan, the Kurds, and the Caucasus
  • The Dalai Lama and Mongolian Intrigues

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
  • Another Factor Connected to the Worker Shortage
  • A Snap-shot of Dominionism in Rural Pennsylvania
  • Reflecting on Independence Day 2024
  • Trumpism and the Infiltration of the Church
  • Libertarian Myths Exposed and Refuted
  • Poisoning the Minds of Children
  • The Latest Episode of Media Malpractice and What it Reveals about American Society and the State of the Church
  • Escaping a Jury Summons
  • A Different Sort of Non-Aligned Movement
  • The Usury Dilemma Revisited

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
  • Rescued from Reconstructionism: Wisdom and Worship versus Politicised Hermeneutics
  • 20 July 1944, Franklin Graham, and the Manipulation of Providence
  • Crossing the Authority Line
  • The Perils of Viewing the Godhead Through a Scholastic Lens
  • Natural Theology, the Reformed Tradition, and Another Way
  • Herman Bavinck's Monism and Redefinition of the Kingdom
  • Hobbes and Calvinist Scholasticism
  • How Should Christians View Their Children?
  • Spiritual Symbolism is Still Symbolism
  • A Wesleyan Triad of Errors - A Formula for Evangelical Disaster
  • A Dutch Reformed Reading of the Cultural Mandate and Psalm 8
  • The Rich Young Ruler, Law, and New Covenant Supremacy
  • Kuyper and Schilder on Eschatology and Culture
  • Soteriology and Sacraments: The Early Church and the Contemporary Ecclesiastical Spectrum
  • Two Tales of Theological Confusion

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
  • A Dispensationalist Voice from Yesteryear
  • Reflecting on Schlissel and his Place in the Reformed World
  • The Less than Great Hal Lindsey
  • A Popular but Contrived Celtic Heritage
  • On the Death of James Dobson

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  • A General Welcome (updated)
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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
  • The Bohemian Brethren and the Crowning of Frederick V
  • The Great Ejection Revisited
  • Comenius and the Swedish Occupation of Lissa
  • The Architect of Modern Evangelicalism
  • Rome vs. Geneva
  • Appropriating the Waldenses
  • The Heretic King of Bohemia
  • Alberta's Chronicle of Evangelical Demise
  • Malachi Martin and Rich Church, Poor Church
  • Samuel Davies: A Colonial Era Hero, Presbyterian Patriot, and Christ-hater
  • Recent Discussion of the Salem Witch Trials
  • The Magdeburg Confession of 1550
  • Another Example of Progressive Orthodoxy

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
  • The Covenant of Works and Mosaic Law Misapplied
  • A British Evangelical's take on Faith, Work, and Culture War
  • The Errors of Westminster Divine George Gillespie and his Progeny
  • New Calvinism, Reformed Sacramentology, and the New Testament
  • Ashurbanipal, Nebuchadnezzar, and the Leaders of Other Evil Empires
  • A Parody of Socialism and Whitewash of Capitalism
  • Bircher Evangelicals Praise Trump and Worship America - Even While They Spurn Zion and Spit on Christ
  • Trueman has Seemingly Lost his Mind
  • One of Satan's Ministers in the Pulpit on Memorial Day
  • The CREC and the Pentagon
  • Evangelical Materialism and the Functional Denial of Scriptural Authority

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
  • Athens, Jerusalem, and the Foundations of Ancient Thought
  • Realms of Enchantment and Mystery
  • What is Good Art? Dominionist Aesthetics versus the Detachment-Discernment Ethos of New Testament Pilgrim Christianity
  • Fundamentalism's Baconian Epistemology
  • Memory and The Ister

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
  • The Church as Institution vs. Sect

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
  • Presbyterianism's Rejection of the Sufficiency of Scripture
  • Wilson's Judaizing Call for Sacralist Architecture
  • What Kingdom Fellowship?
  • Both Low Church and High Doctrine
  • Where to go to Church? - My Three Options
  • Anglicanism and Prima Scriptura
  • A PCA Take on Paedocommunion
  • Evangelical Ecclesiology and the Question of Authority
  • Attending Church in America - the Day after Trump Bombed Iran

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

  • Is the Church Under Threat in 2021?
  • The State of the American Church in 2015
  • Are we New Testament Christians?
  • What about Tax Exempt 501c Status?
  • What about historic creeds?
  • The Alternative to Dispensationalism
  • Calvinism?
  • Are you opposed to Church Buildings?
  • The need for a new congregation
  • Are Bible Churches Necessarily Fundamentalist?
  • Visitor Expectations
  • Church Government, Regular and Provisional
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