Reformed

The continuing war between Emergents and Reformed over the cross

Posted 29 August, 2009 - 11:30 by Andrew

The war in America between Emergents and Reformed is a depressing business. A recent piece by Greg Gilbert on the 9Marks blog (Not Just Important, Not Even Just VERY Important. “Of FIRST Importance.”) expresses satisfaction that defensive measures taken against the insurgents have ‘effectively cut the legs out from under “emergent” theology, considered as a system’. But the basis for this confidence seems rather flimsy. Carson’s Becoming Conversant, which I have read, and DeYoung and Kluck’s Why We’re Not Emergent, which I have read about, might knock down a straw man and frighten a number of people back into the arms of a modern orthodoxy, but I doubt that they will prove to be the ‘one-two knock-out punches’ that bring conclusive victory to the traditionalists. The effect is entrenchment, not resolution or even constructive dialogue.

Mark Driscoll, the church and the supremacy of Christ

Posted 24 August, 2008 - 16:20 by Andrew

The Christian Associates Thinkings group will be getting together in the Hague in October to explore the question of what it means to proclaim Christ as Lord in a post-Christendom, post-modern and religiously pluralist Europe. With that in mind I recently got hold of a copy of a smallish book called The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World, edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor, knowing full well that it was not going to be especially sympathetic to an emerging perspective. The chapter on ‘The Church and the Supremacy of Christ’ by Mark Driscoll caught my eye for a particular reason that I will come to later.

John Owen and Federal Theology

Posted 23 January, 2007 - 23:40 by Rev Dr Steve Gr...
Federal Theology (Covenant Theology) is at the heart of the relationship between humanity and God. John Owen (1616-83) was the finest proponent of this theology and we have much to learn from his approach. The genius of Owen was to weld together Biblical scholarship with personal experience.

Presuppositionalism vs Empiricism

Posted 3 October, 2006 - 05:20 by Roderick

When you buy a brand new puzzle & take it home to put together there are a few things you presuppose. You presuppose the picture on the box is how the puzzle will look once you put it together. You presuppose that all the pieces are in the box. You presuppose that all the pieces have been appropriately made to fit together. This is what we call “Presuppositionalism”.

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