Abiding in the Vine: Apostolic Authority and Spiritual Discernment in 1 John 2:24-27
Recovering the Reformed Synthesis of Word and Spirit
Recovering the Reformed Synthesis of Word and Spirit
Pastor Douglas Wilson recently said some complimentary things about my essay on concupiscence in the new book Ruined Sinners to Reclaim. Thanks, Doug. And thanks to the Gibson brothers and…
Devotional retrieval must accompany theological retrieval. To that end, New Whitchurch Press' republication of The Lamentation of a Sinner is prescient.
So far, I have worked to argue that the English Reformed tradition had already become considerably less magisterial by the mid-seventeenth century. Next, I want to suggest that Cromwell’s move towards supporting a kind of multiple establishment had echoes in the early republic, first in the abortive attempts to create shared establishments that would support churches of various denominations, as was attempted by Jefferson’s enemies in Virginia, then by the creation of an informal evangelical establishment in which Presbyterians and Congregationalists played the central role.
For the Christian, the threat of death, in whatever form it comes, does not have the final word. Jesus said it this way: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24).
