04 Jun 2013
Posted by Jordan Ballor 
Over at The Gospel Coalition, the self-professed "Calvinist Baptist" Joe Carter helpfully surveys the intriguing recent discussions about the possibilities of various forms of hyphenated Baptistry. In a brief note on Twitter, the SBC's Russell Moore noted the possibility of "small 'l'" Lutheran Baptists...
Read more → 19 Feb 2013
Posted by W. Bradford Littlejohn 
Or, A Refutation of the Calumnious Slanders Lately Lodged Against the Most Judicious and Rev. D. Hooker by D. Joyce of Birmingham, in Which are Exposed hir sundrie Errors, Misquotacions, and Misconceipts which do Uniustlie Stayne his moste Noble Memorie. In her recent book, Richard Hooker and Anglican...
Read more → 18 Jul 2012
Posted by Peter Escalante Simon of Hills Bible Church, Melbourne, offers a jocular taxonomy of the sons of Calvin here. He covers the New Calvinists with their somewhat hyperactive pietism, the Neo-Calvinists with their supposedly nefarious plans for world domination, and the tribalistically confessional "Grumpy Calvinists"...
Read more → 13 Jun 2012
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Brad Littlejohn has a helpful post on the different ways in which "the marks of the church" were used among the magisterial Reformers. He makes a plea for greater agility when identifying key theological terms and their significance for ecclesiastical unity. This is of a piece with our own historical...
Read more → 09 May 2012
Posted by Peter Escalante 
Dr Andrew Sandlin is a friend of our forum, and, although we disagree with him markedly on a number of important political and theological points, we do esteem his honesty, intelligence, and his positive contributions to Reformed discourse- most notably, his influential essay Toward a Catholic Calvinism,...
Read more → 11 Apr 2012
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Anthony Milton includes John Davenant’s “On the controversy among the French Divines” in his The British Delegation and the Synod of Dort (Boydell Press, 2005) 397-402. This is a particularly interesting and helpful source because it shows a classic “Anglican” perspective on issues at the heart...
Read more → 18 Mar 2012
Posted by Peter Escalante
Our first essay, as Mr. Wedgeworth explains at its beginning, is a deeper and more thoroughgoing examination of a controversial claim we addressed in outline in a previous essay kindly published by Credenda Agenda. There, we were concerned to outline, for pastors especially, the intellectual and pastoral...
Read more → 18 Mar 2012
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
This is a continuation of the paper which was begun here. It resumes the argument by investigating the Reformed Scholastics' use of the expression and concept "compound person." (more...)
Read more → 18 Mar 2012
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Peter Escalante and I wrote our previous paper[1] as a historically and academically informed, yet primarily pastoral reflection on the current state of Christology in theological apologetics. It was our contention that the historical and theological discussion is most often a red herring, with the true...
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