Some Rules

I’ve seen this on a few other blogs, and I typically think it is good for reflection and an occasional laugh. Here are some of my theological axioms:
If you have to define the bounds of your own infallibility to others, then you are not infallible.
If you define semi-pelagianism in such a way that would [...]

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Robert Rollock on the Ground of Justification

It may be demanded, Had it not been sufficient for our good, and to the end he might redeem us, if he had only lived well and holily, and not also so to have suffered death for us? I answer, it had not sufficed. For all his most holy and righteous works had [...]

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Details

An old story has it that a Puritan was once asked “Why are you so precise?” He answered “Because I serve a precise God.”
This is a great statement really, though often times we are precise in all the wrong places (lapsarianism) and miss those areas in need of careful attention. The opening chapter [...]

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David F Wright and Rich Lusk

David F. Wright is Emeritus Professor of Patriscs and Reformed Christianity, New College, University of Edinburgh. He’s translated Reformation source material, edited numerous theological references works, study series, and authored several books on the history and theology of the Reformation. In The Westminster Confession Into the 21st Century vol 1 (ed. J. Ligon [...]

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Discontinuity

I’ve been mulling through diverse and sundry Protestant scholastics, and while I do appreciate much of the so-called continuity thesis, I can’t help but think it ends up proving very little. After all, there are clear differences between folk like Calamy and Owen, and neither of these guys just made up everything they believed. [...]

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Muller on Dort and “L”

In a second chapter, the Canons treat of the problem of the relationship of Christ’s sacrifice to the salvation of the elect. Because the form of the Canons is so closely related to the forms of the Remonstrance it is incorrect to argue that the Synod derived a concept of limited Atonement from [...]

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Martin Bucer on Baptism

We confess and teach that holy baptism, when given and received according to the Lord’s command, is in the case of adults and of young children truly a baptism of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit, whereby those who are baptised have all their sins washed away, are buried into the death of our [...]

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N T Wright and the Climax of Israel

What Jesus has done, the evangelists are saying, is to bring to its climax not simply the chain of the stories of individual faithful Jews but the whole history of Israel. The gospels are therefore the story of Jesus told as the history of Israel in miniature: the ‘typology’ which is observed here and [...]

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Rushdoony on Righteousness and Eschatology

“Adam was created good, but not perfect.”
Wow, how did Rush manage to discuss these issues back then? The meaning of “righteous,” recapitulation, and the need for Adam to grow up into maturity- all in less than twenty minutes!
http://audio.xanga.com/vanwedgeworth/720301219627/audio.html

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The Already But Not Yet

Gen. 39: 1-6

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.  The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the [...]

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