Category: More Than 500 Words
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Preparing to Read Theonomy in Christian Ethics
Greenville Seminary required new students to read Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book [1]as we prepared for our studies. It was a very valuable book! One of his instructions for reading mom-fiction is to peruse the fly-leaves, bibliographies and indexes. Here are the take-always from Bahnsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics.
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A Critical Essay on the Canons of the Second Council of Orange
The Second Council of Orange had the duty of defending the doctrines of Augustinianism against those of semi-Pelagianism. The council generated a series of canons which were favorable to the Augustinian doctrines of grace and the role of the Holy Spirit, however it is clear that there is some synthesis of Pelagianism; further, it must…
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500+ | An Argument for Open Session Meetings
If our practices are godly, we should have no fear of practicing them in the light. Shrouding our business in secrecy suggests we are “underhanded” in our ways, seeking to practice “cunning.” Instead, let us commend the godliness of our demeanor and reasoning by doing our work in the open.
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500+ | An Argument Against Prohibiting Worship
My COVID Confession As I begin laying out a defense of sustaining corporate worship through COVID, I want to disclose my own position toward the virus. INTRODUCTION In Fall of 2019, rumors of a rapidly spreading virus in China were reaching US media sources. By Winter of 2020 and into Spring, the world was gripped…
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On the Education of Children
There are numerous issues in public education that should cause Christian parents to, at the very least, take a long pause before inserting their children into them. Some things to consider: public schools fail to educate in the truth, fail to discipline children as they require, and embrace the goals of the cultural revolution. In…
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John Cassian & Westminster Christology
Introduction John Cassian lived in the late 4th and early 5th centuries. My first interaction with him came during research for a paper on the Second Council of Orange held in 529 AD. Cassian was one of the first men to crystallize the semi-Pelagian view. A disciple of Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, wrote a response…
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Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight (D.G. Hart and John Muether)
The founding and subsequent growth of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church is the story of a denomination’s sincere desire to maintain faithfulness to the Scriptures and their Reformed summation as contained in the Westminster Standards. It’s a story of how this desire was born, as it were, through a period of intense pangs. D.G. Hart and…
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Book Review: Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education by Douglas Wilson This is not a book about homeschooling. In fact, Mr. Wilson would likely tell you, if given the choice between a strong, classical Christian school and homeschooling, to choose the school. Instead, this book is about education. Every parent desires…
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Book Review: The Word of God in English
Fifty years ago, Eugene Nida developed a theory of Bible translation which came to be called dynamic equivalence theory; replacing the contemporary “word-for-word” translation technique with “thought-for-thought” methodology. This theory makes basic assumptions about the Bible and Bible readers. In his book, The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation, Dr.…
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