If you travel the same web byways that I do, over the last week or so you may have noticed that a ruckus over the Trinity erupted. The occasion was the fact that some complementarians have wanted to ground the submission of a wife to her husband in the “eternal subordination” of the Son to …
A Polecat in a Hollow Tree
Originally published January 22, 2010 As many of you know, the most recent issue of Tabletalk is devoted to N.T. Wright and the New Perspective. My intention in this space is to blog through this issue, article by article. My anticipation is that I will like some of the articles very much, and others, not …
Two Kinds of Christian?
The 7 Real Reasons Protestants Can’t Write
Peter Leithart recently set the cat among the pigeons by claiming here and here that Protestants can’t write. He did this as a Protestant, writing, so we really should be dubious from the outset. Among the scholarly responses to this flight of learned fancy, I commend to you Derek Rishmawy and Steven Wedgeworth. But I …
Perseverance and Time
What are we to make of the question of perseverance and time? Some might want to say that God gives Himself in the present, and only in the present. A gift by definition, has to be received in the present in order to be a gift, right? No, not if we want to speak biblically. …
Berkouwer on Regeneration
With regard to the historic Protestant doctrine of regeneration, a lot could be said, and I believe a lot more should be said. One of the things we will discover is that there is more careful nuance than might be found in the peroration of a hot gospel hedge preacher. At the same time, the …
Look! Girls!
So let me tell you a little bit about my recent reading, which will then help you understand where the following comes from. I recently listened through all C.S. Lewis’s Essays, and have now listened to most of The Abolition of Man (again). I am currently reading God Is Not a Story by Murphy (which …
The USS Eschaton
Please bear with a few juxtaposed quotes, followed up by a very brief observation. “We have contrived that their very language should be all smudge and blur . . .” (C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Proposes a Toast). “The gospel was not ‘believe in Jesus and you will have eternal life’. It was the public announcement that …
Interview With Nate
Really enjoyed our time with the Apologia gang while they were here in Moscow. Here is one interview they conducted (with more to follow). The topic is enjoyment of God, reading the story you are in, moment by moment. Do you really believe what you think you do?
Does Nature Have a Nature?
I just finished listening to a talk which addressed the question of whether regeneration should be defined as a change in nature, and was reminded of something from Wodehouse. Some minds are like the soup in a bad restaurant — better left unstirred. Two basic things came to mind, and I will let them float …