Category: Protestantism
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Five Current U. S. Protestant Political Outlooks
"There are currently five major streams of Protestant political outlook and activism." 1) The old Religious Left 2) The old Religious Right 3) The neo-Anabaptist Left 4) MAGA Christianity 5) TheoBro Right Finally, there is the TheoBro right, which wants a Christian confessional state that legally privileges Christianity as the only remedy for defeating the…
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Back to Inerrancy: A Note on Vanhoozer
I have been doing my level best as time permits to get up to speed on inerrancy as understood by evangelical Protestants. I have a long way to go. Today I preach on a text from Kevin J. Vanhoozer. I will examine just one sentence of his in his contribution to Five Views of Biblical…
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On Swimming the Tiber: Reasons for Leaving Protestantism
I had put the question to Russell B, "What were your reasons for becoming a Protestant in the first place and then leaving Protestantism, apart from acceptance of DDS? [The doctrine of Divine Simplicity?] And what sect did you leave? Here is his response; I have intercalated some comments of my own. 1) The…
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Biblical Inerrancy and Verbal Plenary Inspiration
Recent discussions with Calvinist friends led to the topic of Biblical inerrancy. I've always looked askance at it, but one of the friends, Brian, assures me that Scripture is inerrant in every particular, and nor merely with respect to faith and morals. How is that possible? I tend to think about inerrancy and related topics…
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Notes on R. C. Sproul, Does God Exist?
Trudy the Calvinist gave me a reading assignment. Herewith a first batch of comments for her and your delectation, discussion, and (presumably inevitable) disagreement. In Chapter One, "The Case for God," Sproul distinguishes between four approaches in apologetics: fideism, evidentialism, presuppositionalism, and "the classical school" (4) He comes out against the first three and nails…
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Are Trad Catholics a Protestant Sect?
One of the more interesting blog posts I have run across recently.
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Am I an Intellectual Glutton? Evdokimov, Jackson, Precepts, and Counsels
Study everything! proclaims the first half of my masthead motto. I live by it. Am I an intellectual glutton? The self-critical and conflicted Tom Merton asked himself that very question in a journal entry. I put the question to myself. Example. I am up from a nap and enjoying an iced coffee. I will soon…
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Is Hegel the Protestant Aquinas?
Substack latest. UPDATE (5/8/2024). This from Kai Frederick Lorentzen: You write: " . . . It does annoy me, however, that Kainz doesn't supply any references. For example, we read: Hegel was critical of Catholicism at times, in his writings and lectures. For example, he once made a scurrilous remark about the Catholic doctrine of…
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Why Swim the Tiber?
A philosophy colleague I thought was Protestant has unbeknownst to me swum the Tiber. I asked him why. Here is part of his response, slightly redacted: My story is rather boring, I’d wager. Since my late teen years I was nonplussed with the lack of intellectual vigor in most Protestant denominations (Baptist, Methodist, etc.) I…
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Three Notes on David Mamet
Top o' the Stack. The third note sends the reader to How the Democrats betrayed the Jews. Mamet is right about the Dems. He also rightly notes that Christianity bears some responsibility for anti-semitism: It began with the fall of the Jewish state in 77 CE. Afterwards, we find the Christian libel that the Jews…