Blog 53: 2.5.4 – 2.5.8
The next argument in favor of free will that Calvin refutes concerns exhortations or commands. To put the matter differently: What good is any moral instruction if we are not…
Stephen Nichols
Blog 52: 2.4.7 – 2.5.3
“The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hands of the Lord, he turns it wherever he wants” (Proverbs 21:1). Calvin raises yet another difficult question, that of…
Falling Skies: Chicken Little and American Evangelicalism
I thought I would add yet another postscript to the “sky is falling over American evangelicalism” conversation. I think what Phil ends his post with is worth saying again. So…
Blog 51: 2.4.1 – 2.4.6
How do we make sense of evil? And, more specifically, how do we make sense of the evil that human beings perpetrate on one another? Who’s to blame? If Red…
CVT in B&C
Congratulations are in order to our very own Sean Lucas and to D.G. Hart and to John Muether, editors and author respectively of the Cornelius Van Til volume in the…
Augustine on Glory
I have been doing some work on the glory of God recently and came across this quote from Augustine in The City of God. It’s lengthy, but worthwhile to ponder. …
Poor Derek
So Derek’s in New York? Not to instill within him a spirit of envy (Still a ly sin? Or, was it downwgraded to venial?), but I just so happen to…
Apostasy Lit: Why Do They Leave?
Categories of literature have expanded well beyond the tragedy/comedy paradigm of earlier days. Genres, in other words, have been fruitful and have multiplied. Into the mix, I propose a new…
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While having lunch with one of my students, Ed, I asked him about his family. His mother, he told me, was the only sister to six brothers. This is interesting…
Shocked . . .
. . . and dismayed. DT won’t learn from a Unitarian? Where’s the love?