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Unbalanced "Two Kingdoms" and Political Campaigns
Prof. Clark has a couple of posts up praising Ben Sasse and even including one of his political campaign advertisements (“Ben is a Straight Shooter” | “Ben is Speaking Up About Religious Liberty“). Personally, I can’t vouch for Mr. Sasse (nor do I have any particular criticisms), and that’s not the point of this post.…
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Joel McDurmon Reviews "The Escondido Theology"
Mr. McDurmon has provided a very interesting review of “The Escondido Theology,” as well as of some of the responses and context of the work. McDurmon made an excellent observation relative to Godfrey’s comment: “All of us on the faculty of Westminster Seminary California are shocked and saddened by John Frame’s book, The Escondido Theology.” …
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Hart’s Responses to Frame
Darryl Hart has offered several responses to Frame’s book. The first response I’ll consider is one Hart titled, “More Than You Bargained For?” in which Hart responds to Frame’s comment: “They are also motivated by a desire to oppose what they regard as theological corruptions of the Reformation doctrine, particularly the views of N.T. Wright,…
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What Should One Think About a Movement that says …
1) There is no such movement; 2) The movement is not monolithic; and 3) No one in the movement believes what you just asserted about the movement. My conclusion is that those in the movement are being pushed toward the light. There is a movement, albeit a rather amorphous one. It is not monolithic about…
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Frame on the Law/Gospel Distinction
Frame writes: So the definitions that sharply separate law and gospel break down on careful analysis. In both law and gospel, then, God proclaims his saving work, and he demands that his people respond by obeying his commands. The terms “law” and “gospel” differ in emphasis, but they overlap and intersect. They present the whole…