Category Reformed Theology

What is Evangelical Calvinism?

May 26, 2021 · by · in Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism Book, Reformed Theology · 2 Comments

I wrote the following just before Thanksgiving last year. I was going to write a new post in an attempt to redress these things for new readers, but I thought I would just repost this one since it covers all the bases I had intended to cover in the post I was about to write. […]

Jesus’s Eternal Life as the End and Beginning of All Things: Applied to the death of Ron Grow

February 20, 2021 · by · in Devotion, Doxology, Nick Needham, Reformed Theology · 4 Comments

16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are […]

Barth with Gerhard and Wollebius on Sola Scriptura Contra the Authority of Rome

September 4, 2019 · by · in Barth, Bibliology, Doctrine of Scripture, Reformation, Reformed Theology

The riposte from Roman Catholic and Orthodox apologists, maybe even some Anglican, is that the Bible’s canonicity is given to it in a causal way by the Church’s recognition. But the historic Protestant response is that as Calvin emphasizes, it is autopistis; or in other words, it is self-authenticating. Karl Barth, often chastised for being an […]

Karl Barth, The Reformed Theologian Par Excellence: Christ Rather than the Confessions as the Canon

January 3, 2019 · by · in Barth, Christology, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Darren Sumner, Reformed Theology · 2 Comments

This might seem rather pedantic, like at the level of: who cares? But, apparently I do. Others do too, but only those ensconced in the confessional of so called Protestant Reformed orthodoxy; theological identity is important in these sectors. For me it’s mostly important as a matter of fact, rather than proving an identity [for […]

God’s Triune Life as Grace: In Contrast to Latin Theologies of the Catholic and Protestant Varieties

September 25, 2018 · by · in Evangelical Calvinism, Geordie Ziegler, Reformed Theology, Salvation, T. F. Torrance · 1 Comment

Where was I? Oh yeah, about a third of the way through my friend Geordie Ziegler’s book Trinitarian Grace and Participation: An Entry into the Theology of T.F. Torrance. I’ve had Geordie’s book for probably a couple of years now, and I’m supposed to write a review for it. Well I’m continuing on, and the […]

Theology of the Cross Retrieved and Reformed by a Radical and Dialectical Understanding of Correlation and Faith

September 13, 2018 · by · in Barth, David Congdon, Dialectical Theology, Reformed Theology, Rudolf Bultmann, Theology Of Retrieval, Theology Of The Cross · 1 Comment

Sola fide. Faith alone is the material principle of the Lutheran Protestant Reformation, and it is principial for the Reformed basis of knowledge of God and self. But because of classical metaphysics this principle didn’t blossom into the full flowered reality it had inherent to it in inchoate ways. In other words, because of an […]

Why Evangelicals, the Classically Reformed, and the Post-Reformed orthodox Are Suspicious of After Barth Thinkers

July 19, 2018 · by · in Barth, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Reformed Theology, Richard Muller · 1 Comment

If you don’t find yourself in agreement with mainstream evangelical reformed theology you might find yourself placed into a role that plays like the antitriniarian biblicists of 17th and 18th century Western Europeans. In other words, and this helps explain a lot for me personally, any reluctance to be a flaming post reformed orthodox thinker […]

The Prius of God’s Life IS God’s Life of Triune Personal Love: An Alternative Account of Predestination Referred to God’s Life

April 15, 2018 · by · in Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Doctrine Of God, Paul Molnar, Reformed Theology, Salvation, T. F. Torrance

Predestination that shibboleth of Reformed theology; it has been shibboleth to me as well. Predestination is the idea that God arbitrarily elects particular people to eternal life, and chooses that others either remain (passive) reprobate or are (active) reprobate with no actual hope for eternal life. This approach to a God-world relation relies upon a […]

‘He Descended to Hell’: How Historic Protestants Interpreted this Phrase in the Apostles’ Creed

March 29, 2018 · by · in Holiday, Reformation, Reformed Theology, Richard Muller

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried;       he descended to hell. The third day he […]

The Character of God in Election. Miscellanies

March 6, 2018 · by · in Barth, Bruce McCormack, David Congdon, Doctrine Of God, Election, Probing, Reformed Theology, Salvation

At a personal existential level thought about election and reprobation is no small matter, or it shouldn’t be. It says much about whom God is; viz. the way God works in this area, or at least the way we conceive of God working in this area, indicates how it is that we conceive of God […]

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