Peter Leithart on Trial, "Can I Get a Witness?"

*Comments Open* Wow, Jason Stellman, pastor of Exile Presbyterian church just down the road from us in Woodinville, Washington is doing a fund raiser; a fund raiser of a kind that is totally foreign to me — Free Church kind of guy that I am. But I would imagine, that even for you “Presbyterian & … Continue reading →

God sine qua non

. . . Christian theology has a singular preoccupation: God, and everything else sub specie divinitatis. All other Christian doctrines are applications or corollaries of the one doctrine, the doctrine of the Trinity . . . (John Webster, Holy Scripture, 43) And yet so often, especially in the theo/bibliosphere, it seems like this is taken … Continue reading →

Torrance, The classic 'Personalist' Reformed Theologian: Active & Passive

Here Myk Habets comments on Thomas Torrance’s Reformed thinking on Christ’s so called Active & Passive Obedience. Obviously, some folk aren’t altogether convinced that Torrance’s thinking on salvation, in general; and these “Reformed” components, in particular, measure up to muster: Torrance has been accused of reducing soteriology to christology by collapsing the passive obedience of … Continue reading →

Why Torrance Objects To 'Westminster Calvinism'

Here Paul Molnar gives a good summary overview of some of the reasons that T.F. Torrance objected to ‘Federal’ or ‘Westminster’ Calvinism: Torrance’s objections to aspects of the “Westminster theology” should be seen together with his objection to “Federal Theology”. His main objection to Federal theology is to the ideas that Christ died only for … Continue reading →

Facing Death

The following is an interview done by Justin Taylor of Nancie Guthrie, she has compiled a book on essays done by “Reformed” theologians and pastors on facing death as a Christian. I follow with an excerpt I wrote almost a year ago (Feb. 28th, 2010); at that point I was getting into my 3rd cycle … Continue reading →

Why Calvinist, Evangelical Calvinist?

Why Calvinism? I thought I would, briefly, share my road to self-identifying as an Evangelical Calvinist; my personal salvation history. I was born into a Conservative Baptist pastor’s home (not only was my dad a pastor, but a gifted Evangelist). I was exposed to the Gospel in the womb. By time I was 3 years … Continue reading →

Who's Evangelical [according to Barth], Who's Reformed [according to Muller]?

Travis has a really good quote from Karl Barth: “Evangelical” means informed by the gospel of Jesus Christ, as heard afresh in the 16th-century Reformation by direct return to Holy Scripture. (taken from: Karl Barth “Evangelical Theology in the 19th Century,” in The Humanity of God, 11. What do you all think of this definition … Continue reading →