Shamelessly stealing Aaron’s “Calvin contra . . .” title form while trying to slip into Mark’s stream of interest in merit, I thought this might be a good time to indulge a little excursion in Reformed diversity by noting Calvin’s…
Part 1 here. Westminster Seminary California Professor, David VanDrunen, critiques Norman Shepherd for rejecting Adamic merit: “It is not difficult to see how such a view, if taken seriously, makes belief in Christ’s active, imputed obedience impossible. If image bearers…
One of my favourite philosophers, Inigo Montoya, said to Vizzini ”You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means” I expect with the upcoming release of the Lloyd Jones documentary there will again…
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals has a long history. Much of its recent history has been on the Internet. The first AllianceNet was built in 1997, reformation21.org in 2005 and PlaceforTruth.org, ChristwardCollective.org, and MortificationofSpin.org just last year. Go now to visit AllianceNet.org –…
Some recent defenders of justification by faith have appealed to the concept of Adamic merit because of what they perceive to be the obvious parallels between Adam and Christ. Christ merited as the second Adam, ergo… How do we understand…
Jonathan Rogers, The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012. xviii+186, $15.99. Given Flannery O’Connor’s hallowed standing in American Literature and the undeniable influence she continues to have on artists and theologians of…
In a New York Times’ article from August 2010, Paul Vitello described the serious difficulties faced by many Christian ministers in America today: “Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans.…
In a New York Times’ article from August 2010, Paul Vitello described the serious difficulties faced by many Christian ministers in America today: “Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans.…
I profited from Paul Levy’s review of Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp (Carl Trueman today called it a “penetrating review”). In the review Levy makes the following point: “The memorable if somewhat ironic statement ‘The bottom line is this: proud…
“Many things which are now seen in the world are rather corruptions of it than any part of its proper furniture. For ever since man declined from his high original, it became necessary that the world should gradually degenerate from…
