Tuesday, July 30, 2024

The Council at Chalcedon (451) and the Court of Final Appeal

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[The Canons of Chalcedon on the Church of Constantinople (Canons 9, 17 and 28); Text, with commentary] 9. If any cleric has a suit against ...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Charles Hodges' view of theology as a "science"

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In every science there are facts: facts and ideas; or, facts and the mind. Science is more than knowledge. Knowledge is the persuasion of wh...
Monday, June 03, 2024

Compounding Error: A Review of John Frame's Systematic Theology

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John Frame is an influential but controversial figure in American Reformed Christianity. In the last few months, I have decided to carefully...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Debate: Gavin Ortlund versus RT Mullins

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Gavin Ortlund and Ryan Mullins has done a sortof debate on whether the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS) is true, with Ortlund taking the ...
Monday, April 01, 2024

On ministry in an anti-Christian place

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While reflecting on ministry, I recalled a piece I had read some time back. Titled "Arise Jonah, Go to California that Wretched State a...
Friday, February 23, 2024

The problem with the new scholasticism - "Retrieval of classical theism"

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According to the philosopher, the people on the first story have no visible stairway by which they may walk up to the second story and actua...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

The corruption of monasticism on the life of the church

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After the victory of icons, the number of monks who became bishops grew. (John Binns, The T & T Clark History of Monasticism , p. 77) T...

Monasticism in violation of Scripture: The case of Amoun

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Another pioneer of Egyptian monastic life was Amoun. He was born in 295 and lived in the north of Egypt in the region of the Nile Delta. He ...

The beginnings of monasticism

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Where did Christian monks come from? There were certainly no monks or nuns in the Bible, yet, for we know that monasticism infests the lands...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

John Damascene on energies

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For activity is the natural power and movement of each essence. (St John of Damascus, On the Orthodox Faith , 147) ἐνέργεια γάρ ἐστιν ἡ φυσ...

John Damascene's view on the will

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One needs to know that here is a faculty naturally implanted in the soul that is appetitive of what is in accordance with nature and embrace...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Confessions of a former Strict Confessionalist (Consolidated, with footnotes and conclusion)

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I have completed my personal reflections on strict confessionalism and my time in it. The whole article with footnotes and conclusion can be...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Confessions of a former Strict Confessionalist (Part 4)

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The failure of strict confessionalism: Theological lies and the failure to tell the truth It is not a secret that the American Reformed chu...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Machen does not hold to the modern Ressourcement view on the "Great Tradition" of the church

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If we could imagine all the creeds of Christendom as having been suddenly wiped out of men’s memories, so that we should have to start all o...

Machen on creation

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The book of Genesis seems to divide the work of creation into six successive steps of stages. It is certainly not necessary to think that th...