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Kevin DeYoung has chosen the CN study committee members. They are free to contact me at any time. To aid them in their study, here's a selection of my work:
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America itself is inescapably Calvinist (as Josh Mitchell & others have shown), but point taken. Can’t help but note however that this move is essentially, “yes, it’s an evangelical future but not highbrow Protestantism.” Ok. This is just a recognition of a perennial American reality. It’s not high church. The future isn’t Pentecostal, tho (& I definitely don’t notice Wesleyan churches exploding). What Matt is noticing is the frontierist, revivalistic impulse that, again, is just part of America. The future is non-denominationalism. Most of non-denom is de facto Baptist tho I predict you’ll see more of other groups going to unaffiliated models (again, as a short term future to grapple with past decade of disruption & inept institutions). We’ll see.
Ross is right about the vibrancy of evangelicalism. But a distinction needs to be made. The strongest currents of Protestantism in the US are Wesleyan, not Calvinist, Pentecostal rather than Presbyterian. When intellectual Protestants wax triumphant about an “evangelical century,” they are celebrating the success of a form of Christianity that differs in significant ways from their own. I was raised in a non-denominational evangelical church. When I became “young, restless, and Reformed,” my parents were alarmed. They asked the pastor how to handle my evident defection from the faith. Whatever I believed, they thought, it wasn’t true Christianity. Intellectual Protestants—the kind who attend Anglican churches or imbibe high-proof Calvinist texts—represent traditions of belief that have helped shape this country. But in terms of sociology and doctrine, they are alienated from the most vigorous contemporary expressions of American Christianity.
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The playbook will go something like this: 1) win back the House and Senate, and hopefully the Presidency in 2028; (2) admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, which doesn’t need a constitutional amendment, to gain 4 new Senate seats and cement control; (3) pack the Court, which only requires a change to the Judiciary Act of 1869, not a constitutional amendment; (4) eliminate the electoral college, which is unconstitutional, but not when you have a rigged court that finds the ‘loophole’; (5) flood the country with pliant migrants, swamp the natives, and hold power indefinitely.
Hillary wants the Supreme Court expanded to 13 Justices -- but not until "Democrats are in power." Because it's all about making the court less partisan and has nothing to do with entrenching Democrat power, of course.
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Moore has backed virtually every major American military intervention in recent history, but is compelled by an evolving “pro-life ethic” to denounce the death penalty in cases where a defendant is tried, convicted, and has every opportunity to appeal.
Where Russell Moore, in a new Christianity Today article, reveals he's pretty much against the death penalty now.
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Should Government Enforce God's Law? | Christian Nationalism Debate SECORD vs BAIRD TONIGHT 7PM EST
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This is why, among other things, that civil government ought to promote true religion.
You can’t restrain irrational passions by reason alone.
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It is not a problem for Christians at all. archive.americanreformer.org…
Replying to @PineTreePatrick
Hazony doesn't make this distinction because he's Jewish. But, more fundamentally, I think he's correct that *political* nations form organically when they are taught to see other clans as family, which is what God does in the OT. But this is exactly what the NT does too! This isn't a problem for Hazony, because he doesn't accept the NT. But it's a problem for Christian Nationalists who want to accept his reasoning.
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If you knew the variety of people who have attended Thiel lectures, I don’t think you’d condemn attendance.
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guy: “do not politicize the gospel!” Same guy: “those post-liberals are outside the faith”
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The Westminster Confession of Faith taught the CoW was given "voluntarily." That is the definition of "positive law." In contrast, we "owe obedience unto him" as Creator regardless. Natural law is built into nature, part of man's knowledge, even when suppressed (Rom. 1).
I could be wrong but it seems that the kuyperians and modern 2ks agree that the covenant of works is inherent in or constitutive of nature/creation. So, CoW is essential to natural law. Their disputes are centered on its political implications. But it seems that classically CoW was understood at connatural or logically instituted subsequent to natural law (by order of decree). Natural law is necessary for CoW but CoW is not necessary to natural law. My political thought assumes the latter formulation.
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Covenant Theology 101: - Natural Law is not the same as the Covenant of Works. - Natural Law is prior to and distinguished from the CoW.
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Taking the good Doctor's advice
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Whenever I have a question about theology, most of my reliable sources today are about 20 years younger than me. I admire these guys. Amazing things happening.
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I could be wrong but it seems that the kuyperians and modern 2ks agree that the covenant of works is inherent in or constitutive of nature/creation. So, CoW is essential to natural law. Their disputes are centered on its political implications. But it seems that classically CoW was understood at connatural or logically instituted subsequent to natural law (by order of decree). Natural law is necessary for CoW but CoW is not necessary to natural law. My political thought assumes the latter formulation.
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“Connatural” is probably the wrong way to put it. The point is that natural law does not logically entail CoW. But CoW logically assumes natural law as the content of its antecedent.
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Journalism attracts the dumbest people—the sort of people who can’t produce an idea and defend it but can half-understand another’s idea, “expose” it, and create sensation. They are idea-managers for the powerful in mass democracy. “Speaking truth to power” is a lie.
White evangelicals are the most likely to see empathy as dangerous
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The role of the journalist is to manage and apply public standards of legitimacy to ideas and individuals. It isn’t “truth telling”; it is managing “truth” on behalf of the powerful.
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This is why it requires only weak minds. Being weak-minded is a strength, in a way. They conflate truth/false and good/bad, and good/bad is received, not attained by thought. If it is “bad,” it is false. And since they can’t understand the idea fully, they are equipped to accentuate its badness.
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You can’t affirm “spirituality of the church” and then encourage men to get their political philosophy or ideas about natural things from the church. It necessarily means that people have to seek out voices outside the instituted church and ministry. You can’t have it both ways.
NEW HORIZONS FEATURE | Where are the Young Men? by Rev. Everett Henes In Christian circles, many wonder how to reach young men in a digital age, and how to encourage them to consider ministry. Rev. Everett Henes contributes to the conversation in this month's New Horizons. Read the full article here: opc.org/nh.html?article_id=1…
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The only way to reconcile this is to adopt anabaptist ideas, which confound nature and grace.
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Federal vision reconciles them, on one level.
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