The 2nd of the historic Solas.
Sola Fide - Faith Alone
This is the crux (ho hum) of historic Protestantism. This is the crux of the gospel. This is in many ways how we’re saved. It is only through our faith that we’re saved. (Note the through, the through is important and we’ll cover why a bit […]
If you take those two pieces of the modern world, namely rejection of authority, the autonomous self, and the other one, reliance upon reason apart from revelation - what happens if the second one basically collapses, that is if there’s this broad mass sense that reason’s not cutting it, we’re not solving the mega problems […]
As a warning, blog posts are likely to be sporadic to non-existent for the next couple of weeks or so. I’m going to visit Helen for a week and then after a couple of days I’m off to Momentum. So, although I have blog drafts for several things I doubt I’ll have the opportunity to […]
The first of the ’solas’ that I’m going to cover.
Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone
In some ways it’s the foundational one - at least to the extent that it is holding this that allows the other 4 (and everything that comes after) to be derived.
This doctrine has been called the “formal cause” of the reformation - […]
This makes interesting reading. Even if he is an Open Theist heretic. (HT - Totem To Temple.)
He seems to love Jesus though.
Is this a contradiction?
Gareth rebukes me, presumabley without realising it. He also posts some nice thoughts and quotes from Edwards’ most famous sermon.
Isn’t random incomprehensible inter-blog meta fun? Good.
Gareth tagged me with his silly book meme thing. And, like a the bibliophile I am I felt oblidged to take up his gaunlet. Of course, like the utter muppet I am I never considered how hard it would be to pick specific books in answer to the veritable smorgasbord of questions slewn around in […]
“Notice how the writer in one breath, as it were, speaks in three ways of the hardening: Pharaoh hardened his heart; the heart of Pharaoh was hardened; the Lord said, “I have hardened his heart” (Ex 9:34-10:1). One might well wonder who did harden his heart. There is no doubt that Pharaoh’s hardening of his […]
What do I mean when I say I am, ‘Reformed’? Or that I belong to the ‘Reformed Tradition’? Well, as the word might give away, yes, it has something to do with the Reformation - in essence it would mean that ‘I agree with the doctines of the Reformers.’
Frankly though, that’s fairly meaningless. The Reformers […]
A couple of interesting things to read considering the recent resurgence of trouble in the Middle East - especially if you’re given to reading the end of the world into these events. (Good ol’ Tim LaHaye’s been on the rampage)
Firstly the Knox Seminary Open Letter to Evangelicals (HT - Jollyblogger for both of […]