Carl Trueman has been kind enough to issue a clarification and a quasi-challenge, which is better, I suppose, than a queasy challenge. First his clarification: “I do have a problem with the term ‘Christian worldview’ because it is vague to the point of being philosophically useless even as it has proved rhetorically and politically useful.” …
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“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #125 “For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered” (1 Cor. 11:6). Without coming to any final …
Like Coriander Seed
“That kind of anger is like manna. Even if it is good, it goes bad overnight if you try to keep it” (Evangellyfish, p. 224).
Illegal in Some States
“Husbands are prohibited from bluster, bossing about, selfish grasping, and all the rest of it, but the Bible nevertheless requires wives to obey their husbands. This obedience is to be cheerful, complete, reverent, all the way down, and across the board. Remember that in our passage St. Paul tells wives to be subject to their …
Abiding the Results
Being clever, or smart, or sophisticated, or educated, is not the same thing as being wise. Being wise includes, fundamentally, submission to a standard outside your own opinions. It means a willingness to take the test, and to abide the results. “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is …
Hidden Likenesses
“The first thing she did was hand him the check, like Jacob driving his flocks toward Esau, not that either of them was thinking about this exactly” (Evangellyfish, p. 221).
Which Is Not a Technique
“The Christian pattern of self-improvement is to die and rise” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 117).
Grinding My Postmill Coffee Beans
I promised Frank Turk an additional response to Carl Trueman’s jab at King’s College, and so here goes. There were two basic points that Trueman made that I didn’t get to. The first has to do with Trueman’s middle class “chatterati” and their bland biblically-tinged bromides, and the second has to do with how many …
Francis Bacon, Dude
Below is the gist of my opening remarks at Disputatio yesterday. I took the affirmative, while the negative was ably maintained by Dr. Jonathan McIntosh. There are a few minor edits here that help take into account some of the give and take of the subsequent debate. Resolved, Francis Bacon should be treated by us …
Trueman, Toilets, and Transformation
Carl Trueman writes with verve and sass, which is of course a good thing, so it is a pity when he whiffs one. Don’t get me wrong — the swing was picture perfect, but the ball somehow still wound up in the catcher’s mitt. The occasion was a jab that D.G. Hart was taking at …