Bearing God's Image Thoroughly
The basic theory of the Epstein file and similar operations (whether you think they’re intelligence or not) seems at first glance to be blackmail. Get the big names and the big money to do really heinous deeds (though, note, they’ve
A complicated topic. Among the ideas at once most thoroughly pervasive of theology’s crossover with philosophy and the least immediately obvious from Scripture, in my experience at least, is the doctrine of the absolute unity of God. Every Christian knows
State, Church, Family…? The civil government usually claims, now and across human history, to be the distinguishing and unitary factor of each society. On occasion the religious institution, the ‘church,’ makes a grab for the same, but it does so
Some often unrecognized parts of his mastery. Tolkien is recognized far and wide as a master of worldbuilding, of language, and of legend. Some dislike his implementations. Some despise his theology. Some say a lot of things. But, as a
Partisanship just isn’t avoidable. [As of transfer to this archive, I’m not as confident in this article as at time of writing, though it makes valid points.] Gerrymandering is a difficult topic to analyze. We can all see the blaring
Reviewing Wolfe’s evidence. Is theonomy a novel doctrine in church history? According to Stephen Wolfe, it is novel at least to Reformed theology. To a very small extent, he succeeds. But he succeeds much less than he purports, going by
Is Scripture sufficient? In a recent article (probably the most recent one, but I’ve jumbled the order before), I made some acerbic remarks on Stephen Wolfe’s assertions in Biblical sufficiency in A Study Report on Reformed Christian Politics (though in fairness he’s
Killing children is naturally a topic people have strong feelings about. At large in our culture, this debate plays out between two diametric opposites. On the one side, those who advocate killing children in order to preserve a more pleasurable
Originally Published Here on Truthwire In every case, we judge an institution’s success not by the first measuring stick that comes to have but by the measure of its purpose: does it do what it exists to do? All too
Stephen Wolfe takes on theonomy, and it doesn’t go well. I must confess to being disappointed by the chapter of A Study Report on Reformed Christian Politics (by Stephen Wolfe et al) which dealt with theonomy. I did not expect Wolfe to