Theology Wars

So I’ve been thinking about the whole “This is a war” stuff in regard to Reformed theology. I don’t buy it anymore. I don’t think.
I think there are battles for the future, to be sure, but rarely do the good guys “win,” and frankly, the teams have changed quite drastically. They always [...]

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Andrew McGowan on the Two Schools of Covenant Theology

Andrew McGowan is a Reformed theologian who gives me a lot of hope. I’ve had the privilege of meeting him and hearing him preach on two occasions, and I’ve been trying my best to read everything that he writes. He is well grounded in the Reformed tradition, but he also sees the messiness [...]

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Reductios and Critique

I’ve seen the reductio ad absurdum approach abused many times in debate, usually because that which is “absurd” is not shared by all parties in the discussion. I’ve also seen it abused in that one party will say that “Your position leads to X,” and then proceed to lay into the other person for [...]

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Crazy Problems

Gary doesn’t have people-skills. It is good to see that it wasn’t just me.
Stellman is a nominalist. This is because Kline is. Piper is too. This is big. The position deals with God as if He were finite. It poses His attributes against one another and even argues for [...]

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Wayward Leadership

One of the problems with the internet (and I’m aware that I’m open to my own criticism here!) is that people often take it upon themselves to be authorities, when in fact they’d often do better to be students for a while. This is a problem in the church as well, as oftentimes men [...]

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In the Name Of

Perhaps it’s because I’m a perpetual cynic, but Presbyterians are starting to make me laugh. I should probably be sad, but my reaction is to note the irony of it all. The things we do in the name of the gospel are really just outlandish, and we’ve always got a verse to back [...]

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God Has Reserved

Dr. Reggie Kidd has said what needs to be said. I truly thank God for men like Dr. Kidd and Dr. Frame (a hero if ever there was one), who was the first to leave a comment. We can only hope that more sane and discerning comments will be made in the future [...]

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