Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It took long enough, but Jonathan Martin finally "threw his wallet on the table" about this: I do not hold to the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation-it is too speculative for my taste. But I do believe very much in real presence, that there is a mysterious way that we partake in the presence and power …
Continue reading "A Pentecostal Finally Gets It on the Eucharist"
Albert Mohler documents the rise of the "Clergy Project": The Clergy Project’s own statement is even more blunt, describing itself as “a confidential online community for active and former clergy who do not hold supernatural beliefs.” Most people, believers and unbelievers alike, are no doubt in the habit of thinking that the Christian ministry requires …
Continue reading "Atheists in the Pulpit? The Last Step, but Not the First"
So we now have Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for President. It's an odd thing in many ways, not because the party grandees threw their lot in with him--that's par for the course. It's odd because they were able to get it past the people who supposedly dominate the party--the "Religious Right", those dreadful …
Continue reading "Mitt Romney and the Religion of the Middle Class"
(Myrrh MST 6506) 1972 UK One curiosity of Christian records in the "Jesus Music" era are albums where one side is recorded by a different group than the other. A helpful way for two groups to share the cost, it had the added bonus of not requiring one group to come up with more that …
Continue reading "The Alethians and the Right Angle with David Pope: One Way"
From J. Herbert Kane's A Concise History of the Christian World Mission: One would naturally expect that the spiritual forces released by the Reformation would have prompted the Protestant churches of Europe to take the gospel to the ends of the earth during the period of world exploration and colonisation which began about 1500. But …
Continue reading "The Reformation and Missions: Theology and Doctrine"
In perusing much Evangelical and Charismatic literature, one gets the impression that the "mantic" theory of the inspiration of the Scriptures is the "correct" theory and anything else is the product of "liberals". I dealt with this in the book I co-authored with Leonard Albert, Apologetics for the Rest of Us. A very cogent presentation …
Continue reading "Watchman Nee on the Inspiration of the New Testament"
My parting attempt at humour notwithstanding, the long and involved debate with Anglican Ablaze's Robin Jordan isn't as "over" as one would like. For his part he has sounded the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Charles Finney. For mine, I'd like to take this another direction, because, as I said, I don't think the …
Continue reading "Calvinism, Perseverance and Assurance: Some Further Analysis"
Those of you who have followed my recent posts on Calvinism (this and this) and even my exposition on Origen and the literal sense of Scripture know that these have elicited a vigorous rejoinder by Robin Jordan of Anglicans Ablaze. With the responses from same and now his own blog post on the "slippery slope" …
Continue reading "Going Downhill with Anglicans Ablaze's Robin Jordan"
As a follow-up to my earlier post on Calvinism—and a partial response to Anglicans Ablaze’s Robin Jordan—I wanted to supply more details on my contention that Calvinism “…is the fastest road to universalism in Christianity.” Following is a part of Robert Morey’s Death and the Afterlife, where he discusses and ultimately refutes universalism. I heartily …
Fr. Victor Novak's recent article in VirtueOnline about Calvinism, Catholicism and the Thirty-Nine Articles opens an interesting subject for disparate groups such as Anglicans, Baptists and Pentecostals: why is there so much attraction these days for Calvinism in places where it was either non-existent or not well represented? Let's start with Fr. Novak's article. He …
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