How about a little thought experiment? No hidden agenda; just a way to explore the contention that certain things make all the difference. Imagine for a moment 12 Baptist churches (that may be enough for some of you right there) in my own little Appalachian corner of the world, southeast Kentucky. These 12 churches areContinue reading “12 Churches, 12 Calvinists”
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Thinking About The Canon: A Lutheran View
UPDATE: A good and comprehensive collection of information on the various canon lists. Lots of good information. This second post in our discussion of canonization is from a frequent Internet Monk guest, Lutheran blogger Josh Strodtbeck. Josh will tell us about the Lutheran concept of the Canon, which is quite different from what many mayContinue reading “Thinking About The Canon: A Lutheran View”
Thinking About the Canon: A Post-Evangelical’s View
After reading Mark Shea’s By What Authority? and revisiting Craig Allert’s A High View of Scripture? I started making some notes on my own ideas about the question of canonicity. This post will be followed later by popular Internet Monk poster and famous Lutheran blogger Josh Strodtbeck, who will give us the Lutheran view ofContinue reading “Thinking About the Canon: A Post-Evangelical’s View”
My Theology Can Beat Up Your Theology: Thoughts on always saying more than the other guy.
I’ve had an idea running around in my mind for a few months, and I’m going to try and get it down on paper. It’s slippery, and rather than try to sound profound, I think it would be best to say this is a bit of advice for those in the mood to listen (whichContinue reading “My Theology Can Beat Up Your Theology: Thoughts on always saying more than the other guy.”
To Do The Best With What We Have: A Counselor’s Meditation
The following incident is fictionalized from real experience. I look at my watch. It’s time for a counseling appointment. I clear my desk, bring in the extra chairs and wait. My appointment arrives and the conversation begins. This is a first time conversation, with someone I don’t know. I spend a lot of time listening.Continue reading “To Do The Best With What We Have: A Counselor’s Meditation”
Riffs: 01:01:08: Losing the Treasure of a Christ-Centered Assurance of Salvation
UPDATE: John H has a helpful Lutheran response. UPDATE II: A Lutheran view of Assurance. UPDATE III: Mark Shea comments on assurance in Calvinism and Catholicism. I think Mark’s experience with Calvinism is not very nuanced, but it’s on target. (Buy the Rosenbladt presentation.) Q. 1. What is your only comfort, in life and inContinue reading “Riffs: 01:01:08: Losing the Treasure of a Christ-Centered Assurance of Salvation”
The Problem With Real Christians
In the first place the situation in the actual world is much more complicated than that. The world does not consist of 100 per cent Christians and 100 per cent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name; someContinue reading “The Problem With Real Christians”
Well Said: B16 On Issues Between Roman Catholics and Baptists
Pope Benedict XVI issued a statement this week noting the continuing conversation between Roman Catholics and the Baptist World Alliance. It’s a good statement, and as a Baptist and a post-evangelical (if you want to know what I mean by that, ask Phil Johnson) I thought it laid down some very good lines worth notingContinue reading “Well Said: B16 On Issues Between Roman Catholics and Baptists”
Standing on My Own Trap Door? or “I’ll Take My Christocentric Theology To Go, Thank You.”
Let it be presupposed that every good Christian is to be more ready to save his neighbor’s proposition than to condemn it. If he cannot save it, let him inquire how he means it; and if he means it badly, let him correct him with charity. If that is not enough, let him seek allContinue reading “Standing on My Own Trap Door? or “I’ll Take My Christocentric Theology To Go, Thank You.””
Riffs: 11:21:07: Ben Witherington III asks “Is the Self-Centered God a Narcissist?”
UPDATE VII: Ochuck makes a good contribution to the topic. UPDATE VI: James White on the whole debate. Two things you can be sure of: 1) The longer the discussion goes on, the more likely that Witherington will eventually be called out as an apostate. 2) The longer the discussion goes on, the more itContinue reading “Riffs: 11:21:07: Ben Witherington III asks “Is the Self-Centered God a Narcissist?””
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