About a year ago, I was tried by the Pacific Northwest Presbytery of the PCA on charges of deviating from the Westminster Confession at a number of points. The Presbytery exonerated me of all charges. One of the underlying themes of the trial and the surrounding debates over the past several years . . . . Continue Reading »
I re-enter the “too catholic to be Catholic” arena again this morning at http://www.firstthings.com/ . . . . . Continue Reading »
Rich Bledsoe agreed with my analysis of 1-2 Kings and the divided church, and offers these further reflections on Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. The remainder of this post is from Rich. Van Leeuwen in his magisterial CHRISTIANITY IN WORLD HISTORY: The Meeting of the Faiths of East and . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been a huge response to my post on “Too catholic to be Catholic” earlier this week, and I can’t hope to respond to everything. Given what I’ve seen of some of the responses, though, it will be helpful for me to clarify and elaborate briefly the biblical framework I . . . . Continue Reading »
My friends tell me that my name has been invoked in various web skirmishes concerning Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism, sometimes by people, including friends, who claim that I nurtured them along in their departure from the Protestant world. My friends also hinted that it would be good . . . . Continue Reading »
Griffiths ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) ) suggests that we must interpret the Song’s bodily imagery through the theological lens of Paul’s teaching concerning the body of Christ. “The complex and fluid relations of one body part to another – of . . . . Continue Reading »
As Young notes ( In Procession Before the World: Martyrdom As Public Liturgy in Early Christianity (The Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology, 2001) , p. 12), the early Christians had their own way of taking over the Roman entertainment industry: Martyrs “invaded those spectacles and turned them . . . . Continue Reading »
In her 2001 Pere Marquette Lecture Robin Darling Young ( In Procession Before the World: Martyrdom As Public Liturgy in Early Christianity (The Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology, 2001) , pp. 1-2 ) notes that martyrdom in the early church highlights the clash between “opposing religious . . . . Continue Reading »
In his God’s Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) , Samuel Wells challenges the assumption of scarcity that he takes to be “a consistent majority strand in Christian ethics . . . that ethics the very difficult enterprise of making bricks from . . . . Continue Reading »
Bavinck ( Reformed Dogmatics: Abridged in One Volume ) has this helpful discussion of the meaning of “true” in Protestant ecclesiology: “A true church in an absolute sense is impossible on earth. For that matter, neither can a wholly false church exist; to qualify for that . . . . Continue Reading »
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