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  • A Better Christian Nationalism

    09/01/2018 5:23:56 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 3 replies
    First Thing ^ | June 2018 | Peter J. Leithart
    During his address to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), Vice President Pence called America a “nation of faith." and claimed that the phrase was a favorite of President Trump’s, and "we are in the midst of a new beginning of greatness in America.” The new SBC President, J. D. Greear, felt the need to tweet his ambivalence about Pence’s speech, and perhaps Pence’s very presence at the Convention. In his own speech to the Convention, Greear emphasized the subordinate place of earthly politics. Baptists renounce Messianic politics and Messianic politicians, because: We believe that Jesus is the lord of the...
  • Coffin Nails

    06/11/2013 11:17:38 AM PDT · by fishtank · 11 replies
    God's Hammer ^ | May 7, 2013 | Sean Gerety
    One man’s coffin nail could be the hinge pin keeping the PCA from going over the abyss. Jason Stellman’s flirtation with the Roman church-state right in the middle of his halfhearted prosecution of fellow closeted Roman Catholic, Peter Leithart, could be the means by which the PCA reverses its decision affirming Leithart’s gross heresy as being within the bounds of the Westminster Confession, even his rejection of justification by faith alone and imputation. Three PCA presbyteries that still believe that the Gospel is worth fighting for have “approved an overture requesting the General Assembly to assume original jurisdiction over TE...
  • From Calvinist Prosecutor to Catholic Apologist

    07/26/2013 2:04:17 PM PDT · by NYer · 555 replies
    Catholic World Report ^ | July 26, 2013 | David Paul Deavel
    Sunday, June 21, marked the 90th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial decision. The questions surrounding evolution—meaning, in particular, the origins of humans—still raise large and important questions for how we understand human nature and the doctrine of original sin. But Jason Stellman thinks that the obsession with our physical origins, though understandable, is perhaps theologically off-kilter. Where we've come from biologically is not as important as where we're heading. It's not the beginning of the journey, man—it's the destination. Stellman's The Destiny of the Species (Wipf and Stock, 2013) is a brief, rollicking, and readable apologetic, notable not...
  • The Christian Origins of Islam

    12/07/2012 2:32:57 PM PST · by NYer · 18 replies
    First Things ^ | December 7, 2012 | Peter J. Leithart
    Near the bottom of the pit of hell, Dante encounters a man walking with his torso split from chin to groin, his guts and other organs spilling out. “See how I tear myself!” the man shrieks. “See how Mahomet is deformed and torn!” For us, the scene is not only gruesome but surprising, for Dante is not in a circle of false religion but in a circle reserved for those who tear the body of Christ. Like many medieval Christians, Dante views Islam less as a rival religion than as a schismatic form of Christianity. A handful of Western scholars...
  • The Controversialist [Idaho pastor Doug Wilson is becoming a "mainstream evangelical"]

    04/18/2009 9:16:54 AM PDT · by Alex Murphy · 29 replies · 1,710+ views
    Christianity Today ^ | 4/17/2009 | Molly Worthen
    Of all the spokesmen for godlessness to emerge during 2007, the "year of the atheist," Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the most prominent. He is a prolific journalist and television pundit, selected by voters in Prospect magazine's 2008 poll as the #5 most important public intellectual. His 2007 treatise, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, continues to sell briskly, and he has built a sideline career debating any willing opponent from any church or creed, from Al Sharpton to Dinesh D'Souza. There is one man, however, who has sparred with Hitchens more than anyone: a relatively unknown Idaho pastor...