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TE Keister’s Reply to TE Moon’s Defense of TE Lawrence – Part 2
Posted by Wes White You can read the first part of Lane’s reply here. F. Next up is Heinrich Bullinger. He says: For to whomever the Lord promises that he will be their God, and whomever he receives...
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TE Keister’s Reply to TE Moon’s Defense of TE Lawrence – Part 3
Posted by Wes White II. Exegetical Arguments A. TE Moon argues (p. 2) that TE Lawrence’s view of the term is in accord with the NT understanding of the term “Christian.” However, the context of each of...
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A Book Review of Michael Williams’s Book “Far As the Curse Is Found”
Dr. Michael Williams is Professor of Systematic Theology at Covenant Theological Seminary. His degrees are from Moody Bible Institute (Diploma), Calvin College (BA), Harvard Divinity School (MTS),...
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Connecting Preaching to Covenant Theology
I’ve decided to read through Hughes Oliphant Old’s entire set on the history of preaching. As I go along, I will note some of the more important insights from the set. Volume 1, interestingly enough,...
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A Quick Comment on Union with Christ
Posted by David Gadbois I know there is an avalanche of great Leithart-related material streaming into Greenbaggins at this time, and I don’t mean to distract us too much from the primary issues of...
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The Sabbath and Salvation History
It struck me today that there are broad connections between the Sabbath and the entirety of redemptive history. We will take as our starting point the magnificent contribution of Geerhardus Vos to our...
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Joel Beeke’s Address
The title of his address is “Parenting By God’s Promises.” The premise of his book is that God is a God of grace. The covenant of grace is the bedrock of parenting. We parent based on the covenant. He...
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The Hebrew Roots Movement
There is a movement afoot (small, but rather persistent) to return to the Old Testament way of doing things (and they would argue that the New Testament changes pretty much nothing). This (usually)...
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Hebrew Roots, Unhelpful Fruits
by Reed DePace I first was compelled to examine the Hebrew Roots Movement (more broadly, Messianic Christianity) because of a beloved Christian father in my circles who had a relative drifting into the...
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Announcing the New Covenant
(Posted by Paige) Here is a curious question that arose in our Hebrews study recently (starting our second year at ch. 8!): We understand that the Old Covenant was inaugurated with blood (Ex. 34) and...
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How to Reconcile the Immutability of God with “Repent” Passages
On the one hand, we have passages that tell us that God does not change (James 1:17, Malachi 3:6, Numbers 23:19, and Hebrews 13:8. These are quite clear: God does not change. God does not move on to...
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Republication of the Covenant of Works
It is rather amazing to me to see how worked (!) up people can get over the republication thesis. Is it that people just hate Meredith Kline? Or do they just hate Westminster California? I hear and...
View ArticleThe OPC Report on Republication, Part 6
In this post, we will address the first part of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the report, which addresses the subject of typology. Typology is much disdained in today’s academia, since it assumes a Christian...
View ArticleThe OPC Report on Republication, Part 7
The OPC report speaks of a variety of views that were on offer with regard to republication. By the way, we are looking at Part I, Chapter 2, sections II and III-A in this post. The fact that the...
View ArticleThe OPC Republication Report, Part 8
In this post we will address Part I, Chapter 2, section III B of the report, entitled “Not Names, But Things.” The main burden of the section is to note that Reformation era writers often relied on...
View ArticleThe OPC Republication, Part 9
In this post, we will address the interpretation of WCF 19, a vitally important point to the whole debate. For ease of reference, sections 1-3 of chapter 19 will be reproduced here in full: 19:1 God...
View ArticleThe OPC Republication Report, Part 10
In this post, we will cover Part I, Chapter 3, sections I and II of the report, dealing with creation, law, and covenant. The committee makes a very important point with regard to creation and...
View ArticleThe OPC Republication Report, Part 11
In this post, we look at Part I, chapter 3, sections 3 and 4 of the report, the historical examination of the Westminster divines’ exegesis of key passages. The third section starts out by noticing...
View ArticleThe OPC Republication Report, Part 12
With this post, we delve into Chapter 4, section 1, of the report dealing with merit and demerit. Most of the section is taken up with defining what condign merit is. There are five categories that...
View ArticleWhy Christians Can Never Be Anti-Semitic
Anti-Semitism is still alive and well out there. Many people hate Jews. Many people hate Israel, the land. This option is not open to the Christian, although maybe not for the reasons most would...
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