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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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It's not Personal … therefore not Moral (from Zrim)
Zrim proposed the following interesting argument: The only thing I can imagine is that you think to behave politically is to behave personally. But when I vote for or against something, or even abstain from any political involvement, Iām not behaving personally morally but politically (or apolitically as the case may be). This is the…
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Darryl Hart's Affirmations and Denials, Escondido Theology, and the Two Kingdoms
Darryl G. Hart has posted (well, Reed has posted for Darryl) some affirmations and denials on issues related to DGH’s view of the Two Kingdoms, a view Darryl misleading refers to as “the two kingdoms view” but which departs significantly from the two kingdoms views of Calvin and the Westminster divines. I had originally drafted…
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An Example of the Exegetical Blunders of Horton's View of the Two Kingdoms
Prof. Michael Horton has an article entitled, “The Death of Osama bin Ladin: What Kind of Justice Has Been Done?” Horton takes the occasion of bin Ladin’s death as a chance to attempt to propagate his unhistorical view of the two kingdoms. I don’t mean to suggest that the idea of two kingdoms is not…
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Response to "Why One Should Read Before Writing" by R. Scott Clark
R. Scott Clark kindly responded to my previous post (link) with a post of his own (link). I write to correct a few errors in his post. 1. My State of Mind as to UnderstandingAfter a brief tangent about my pseudonymity, Prof. Clark characterizes my comments as being that I didn’t “understand how [Prof. Clark]…
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Examining Stellman's Pragmatic Objection to the Reformed View of the Two Kingdoms
My attention was recently directed to a 2007 blog post from Jason Stellman (who is frying bigger fish at the moment, and that’s a good thing). I don’t know whether he still holds to the opinions expressed in that post. Nevertheless, since my friend pointed it out to me, I thought I’d briefly respond. Pastor…
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Does "Politics" Get to Trump God's Law?
Here’s a quick thought: in a “democratic” country with a lot of Christians, at least some of those interested in political power will seek to cater to the Christians. Thus, topics that interest Christians like “Freedom for Christians to worship and evangelize,” “marriage as defined by the Bible,” “fornication is evil,” and “killing babies is…
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Two Kingdoms vs. Radical Two Kingdoms
Pastor Jason Stellman has twice (first time, second time) drawn my attention to a post from Darryl G. Hart disputing the “radical” label with respect to the radical form of two kingdoms theology that he (Hart) advocates (link). Stellman seems to think himself in agreement with Hart, though I cannot confirm that Stellman is aware…
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So-called Jehovah's Witnesses Cult Suppressed in Russia
This is something that would have happened in Geneva under a Reformed view of the two kingdoms, but would not happen under a Lutheran view of the two kingdoms (link to story). Of course, calling the radical view of two kingdoms theology promoted by Darryl Hart and others “Lutheran,” is perhaps unfair to modern Lutherans.…
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Confessions and the Magistrate
Steven Wedgeworth at Wedgewords has an interesting compilation of the Reformed confessions’ statements on the civil magistrate (link). Those Presbyterians who follow a radicalized two kingdoms approach (contrasted with the more moderate and Scriptural form taught by the Reformers) will feel themselves at odds with what amounts to the apparent majority of the Reformed consensus,…