I am afraid I have some more bad news for the defenders of the faith over at Heidelhoneyhut. The rot of heresy is spreading. The FV leprosy was not addressed promptly enough, and has begun to spread retroactively through the body of all church history. And you know it is a really bad factory that …
In Which Scott Clark Loses His Golf Ball
The use of the law assumes a context, and that context has to include people. The three uses of the law are not possible if the Bible remains closed. If the text says, “thou shalt not steal,” but the text has never been read by any man, then none of the three uses of the …
Three Reasons Why the Keepers of the Reformed Flame Don’t Understand Their Own Tradition
Something of an extended discussion has broken out over at Greenbaggins, and this discussion revolves around whether acceptance of the law/gospel hermeneutic is necessary in order to be faithful to sola fide. Looking at that discussion, my son-in-law commented that it was like watching junior high boys, down in the rec room, arguing over the …
Sweet Compliance
On a previous occasion, Greenbaggins had said that I was okay on sola fide, but has now come to the end of a chain of reasoning that requires him to say that he no longer believes this. His full post can be found here. And, although I believe him to be confused on the point, …
Whack Thee Upon the Mazzard
The final report from the Standing Judicial Commission on the Leithart case is now out, and I just now finished reading through it. The judgment of the commission was that the complaint against the Pacific Northwest Presbytery was “sustained, and the case is sent back to PNW with instructions to proceed according to the Reasoning …
A Really Little Cabinet
Burk Parsons is the editor of Tabletalk, and he wrote a very brief introduction explaining why the magazine was tackling the subject of N.T. Wright at all. In that intro, he included a quote from John Piper designed to put all the critical assessment in context. That comment is worth quoting in full. “Nicholas Thomas …
Mathison Channels Newton
Keith Mathison contributed the next article for Tabletalk, and it was a pippin. The article is basically a reprise of John Newton’s great letter to a friend “On Controversy.” Assuming the truth of your position, and your ability to win the argument, there are still other considerations. As my father puts it, there is a …
Our Theological Bumpity Bumpity
The next Tabletalk article was written by a friend, RC Jr. I begin this way in the interests of full disclosure, and also because it is important to note that I happen to know he did not contribute this article in the interests of scoring anybody off, or for the sake of picking a fight. …
A Lot of Theological Pother
The next article in Tabletalk, by Paul Helm, was quite good. He was responding to Wright’s following statement: “People like Saul were not primarily interested in the state of their souls after death; that was no doubt important, but no doubt God would have the matter in hand. They were interested, urgently, in the salvation …
A Question that Only a Theologian Could Love
I don’t have a lot to say about Roger Nicole’s contribution to Tabletalk. The bulk of his article was a solid, standard Reformed treatment of some of the standard questions that can be raised concerned the imputation of righteousness — does this wipe out personal responsibility? does this make sinning a matter of indifference? and …