Do you attend a perfect Church?
You’re in a faithful church, but someone complains about this, that, and the other, and so wants to leave. What do you say? #1 I agree this church isn’t perfect… #2 This is a perfect church, why would you leave…
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Disunity in Christ
Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2013. $13.99 Christena Cleveland’s Disunity in Christ is an important read for those who–in an increasingly pluralistic yet no less segregated society–call church…
More Spalled Concrete
In our last two articles, we’ve been dealing with various objections that continue to be offered against a Covenantal approach to apologetics. The objection that we considered last time needs more explanation and discussion that we were able to give…
More Spalled Concrete
In our last two articles, we’ve been dealing with various objections that continue to be offered against a Covenantal approach to apologetics. The objection that we considered last time needs more explanation and discussion that we were able to give…
More on the Trinity and divine action
In previous entries in what is becoming an impromptu antiphonal blog series on the Trinity, Fred Sanders and I have focused on the nature and relevance of the doctrine of inseparable operations (see here, here, and here). To this point,…
Is Your Spiritual Life a Battle?
Do you ever feel like life doesn’t get any easier? The world is throwing you punches and all you can do is duck and dodge? Do you feel like just living day-to-day is like a climb uphill? Your spiritual life…
A Response to Mark Jones and Gert van den Brink
We’re grateful Oliver Crisp has offered his response to the two reviews of Deviant Calvinism which were published this week. Oliver’s contribution serves to extend an important conversation over the character and sources of Reformed theology ~ Editor I wish…
Personal Reflections on “Deviant Calvinism”
How wide or narrow is the Reformed faith? In his recent book, Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology, Fuller Seminary Professor, Oliver Crisp, uses the tools of historical theology and analytic theology to address various questions, such as the broadness of…
Dear Bryan: Replying to “The State of the PCA”
This week a letter titled The State of the PCA was published by Bryan Chapell in By Faith, the denominational magazine of the PCA. This public letter is another of the many takes in recent years on our denomination from…
An Analysis of “Deviant Calvinism” (Part 1)
The question of how diverse the Reformed tradition is is an important topic of consideration. I have co-edited a volume on Reformed diversity in the seventeenth century, and later this year I have another co-edited volume coming out on Reformed…