Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
“My position is that Scripture is senior to the Confessions, and that the Confessions are senior to (and quite different from) popular American bapterian readings of the Confessions . . . The system is fine. The Confessions are fine. The problem is that Reformed bapterians have as many problem passages in the Confessions as they do in the Scriptures.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 606
Letter to the Editor: Hello dear brother Doug, I thank God for you! I have a fellow pastor who is working through how to discipline his wife. He believes that as he spanks his children (not ...
“And none of this threatens sola fide in the slightest because to maintain that faith is the sole instrument in justification does not deny that God uses other secondary instruments, always subsidiary to the primary instrument, which is faith alone. Those other subordinate instruments would include, but not be limited to, preaching, Gideon Bibles, tracts in the laundromat, billboards, sermon tapes, baptism, godly mothers, and so on.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 605
“There are times when I walk around in tight little circles, looking helplessly at the horizon.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 605
Introduction: American Christians will still go to great lengths to avoid naming the name of Christ outside their religion boxes, otherwise known as churches and sanctuaries. The gods of secularism ...
“The thing that has astonished me in this controversy, again and again, is how the erstwhile defenders of the Westminster Standards can attack the teaching of those standards (and those who actually hold to them) in the name of defending the standards.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, pp. 604-605
“Having said all this, let me now affirm my commitment to the Reformed standards. I love them, teach in accordance with them, teach through the Westminster Confession every other year, thank God for them, and use torn pages from Finney’s systematic theology to light my cigars.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 603
“Real reformations burst wineskins, even the ones with the official Reformation® tags stitched onto them.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 595
Introduction: Starting a number of months ago, I started interacting with the idea that we should have "no enemies to the right" (NETTR). I did this in a few blog posts here and there, and I was responding ...
