Theology That Bites Back
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From the Credenda Archives (1995)Volume 7/Number 5 The problem can be called by many names. The men of our generation have had a failure of nerve. They have abdicated their responsibilities, and we are consequently in the midst of a crisis of leadership. Men have fallen, to use the biblical term, into the sin of …
“If the Reformed tradition were the Mississippi River, these river boat pilots have managed to get their vessel grounded just south of Wichita. As I put it in a recent comment elsewhere, I really don’t understand why the C students think they get to grade everybody else’s papers.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 776
Letter to the Editor: I enjoyed your recent post on child communion. I am curious if you know of any resources that point to the early church’s practice of this, or historical ...
“One use of the law cannot be made the over-arching essence of that law—because that would make it impossible to employ the other uses.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 774
From the Credenda Archives (1996)Volume 8/Number 1 The unthinkable does not always remain that way. Thirty years ago, if one were to talk about the possible crackup of the United States, the result would have been a good deal of laughter. But the world is a very different place today, and such a suggestion now …
Remarks for Refresh Ministries/Boston 2024 I must begin with my gratitude to your organizers for having been invited to an event such as this. And I bring you greetings from your younger sister Idaho, ...
“So, saving faith yields, trembles, and embraces. It yields obedience, it trembles at threats, and it embraces promises. But its principal acts are accepting, receiving, and resting upon Christ alone for justification. These are indeed its principal acts, saving faith does other things. It hunts down the red law passages and yields obedience to them. It comes across passages which threaten divine displeasure, and saving faith trembles at these red law passages also.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 774
“They think that nuda lex is totus lex, which is a staggering confusion. They have confounded a use of the law which the definition of the law. They have confused a part with the whole.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 771
“Therefore, the Reformed tradition (the real one) holds that when describing what the law is, in all its parts and relations, we are talking about totus lex. And totus lex has a subordinate and honored place within the covenant of grace. Then Reformed historically have not held to a kind of radical dualism with law over here in stark opposition to grace over there.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 771
