The day bourgeoisie Reformed thought failed
Iain Murray wrote a book titled The Day Church and State Failed. I don’t really know what it is about, but I will borrow the title. I am trying to figure out why I ditched middle-of-the road “vanilla...
View ArticleRailing against theonomy when you should be teaching Christology
It happened like this. The class was average so far. It wasn’t great but I figured I would still get the basics of Christology, or at least enough to pass an exam. We got to the part about...
View ArticleAlternatives to theonomy in seminary—it wouldn’t have mattered
I suppose I probably could have spared myself a lot of grief in seminary by not taking the theonomy route. I mean, I’m not a theonomist now, so it wouldn’t have mattered right? Well, it’s not so...
View ArticleRecommendations for the seminarian
College was one of the more delightful social experiences for me. I truly got to explore my faith through reading. Sadly, seminary was one of the worst–if not the worst–experiences of my life. I’ve...
View ArticleLanguage Helps for the Young Seminarian
You shouldn’t listen to me simply because I know everything. I don’t. However, I have made all the mistakes and if you reverse engineer it, you can see what to do. Depending on the evangelical...
View ArticleTheonomy Files, no.4: The Van Til Problem
This post does not seek to attack or criticize Van Til. I am simply stating that Van Til represents a dialectical problem for the modern American Reformed church. And for the record, I like Van Til...
View ArticleCovenantal Ethical Epistemology Diagrammed
The following helpful charts are taken from Christianciv.com. (Above is THE spear-thrust through the heart of Anchoretism and hyper-ousia theology. You cannot understand anthropology without knowing...
View ArticleOn the Soul of the South
This is a hard post for me to write. Somebody will be offended. Since there is no avoiding that, the only fair thing to do is to piss everyone off. And a warning note: some of the language I use...
View ArticleReview: 75 Bible Questions
He should have stopped after page thirty, for then it would have been a magnificent pamphlet instead of a painful book. The opening section defending Reformed soteriology is probably the best in...
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